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NE Scotland Group needs £162,000 to bring railway line back

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by Martin Perry, Oct 24, 2017.

  1. Martin Perry

    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    Interesting;

    https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/f...ed-to-raise-160000-to-take-railway-line-back/

    An area not over represented in tourist railways, but still a big ask.
     
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    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    I had a look up there a couple of years back, a lot of it has been ploughed back into the fields etc.
    To me the actual Moray Coast route west from Cullen would have been more attractive, though there would be issues with that too - houses on formation, lots of lovely viaducts, footpath on line etc.

    https://www.railscot.co.uk/Banff_Portsoy_and_Strathisla_Railway/index.php
     
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    If there is enthusiasm 'up there' for the re-introduction of a line I would incline towards Elgin to Granton as being more likely to attract both visitors and enthusiasts.
     
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    Time for good dose of pragmatism.
    The Moray coast routes closed in May 1968 and from a quick look around Google maps and Streetview where the line hasn't been subsumed back into the farmland or been developed nature appears to have taken it's course and produced a fine crop of native woodland.
    I had a few family holidays in the area back in the 70s, both of my parents had been in the area in military service, and we visited places they had been familiar with and from what I can remember very little of the system appeared intact even then; and bits that were such as the old station at Portknockie now look to have been redeveloped or demolished. At least some of the line appears safe as the Moray Coast path. Stranger things have happened but there seems a lot stacked against this idea !

    With the existing Keith and Dufftown railway and even the Strathspey (although even further from the coast) ; just a personal view but I would have hoped any enthusiasm could support these projects rather than trying to get a new one off the ground.
     
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