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line not on an agreed percentage of the gross revenue but at prime cost, including Ā£75 a year for the use of
Kintore Station. A shareholder, Dr Garden of Alford suggested that the AVR was being run by the GNoSR for its own benefit, to which the chairman reminded the meeting that the GNoSR had "given" the Alford company Ā£15,000 in shares and a Ā£30,000 loan, for which it had to borrow money at 4.5%. Of the authorised Ā£76,500 capital, only Ā£37,291 15s 0d had been paid up, and he asked why local proprietors had not bought more shares in the line.
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paid anything towards them. Adam explained that the unnamed four had transferred their shares before any call for payment was made, something the directors could not prevent. The persons in whose names the shares now stood were unable to pay, and the shares were now forfeited. So the Alford Valley
Railway, with an authorised capital of Ā£100,000, and built at a cost of well over Ā£70,000, had an actual paid-up capital of Ā£3,920.
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The continued increase in operating costs, and the decline in local traffic after the end of the second world war, resulted in the closure to passengers of the Alford branch on 2 January 1950. On 3 January the line above
Paradise Sidings was closed, the mineral operation there continuing for the time
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Deeside scheme was approved by a very large majority, but in Parliament, preference took another turn, chiefly because the Kintore junction with the GNoSR gave much more flexibility for connectional journeys for both passengers and goods, as compared to the Deeside connection.
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In 1854 the idea of a railway to Alford was revived, and a plan was made to make a railway from a junction with the GNoSR main line at
Buchanstone to Alford, with a 700-yard tunnel through the Bryndie Hill, and very severe gradients. However better gradients and a line without a tunnel could be made
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In 1903 the GNoSR tried the operation of steam railcars in an attempt to reduce costs on branch lines. They were used on the Alford branch (among others) but were not successful because of noise problems and inadequate boilers. After a year of intermittent and unreliable service they were scrapped.
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The Alford Valley
Railway had been expected to open in August 1858, but there were delays in completing the construction. There are differing accounts of the actual opening day: 21 March 1859, or "the official opening was 30 July" but 25 March 1859; Carter says "21 November 21 1859, or according to
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In
December 1860 the Alford Valley Railway held its fifth annual meeting; a poor harvest was blamed for a disappointing set of accounts. The net revenue was only Ā£1,173 12s 3d, but 5% interest on the company's borrowings amounted to Ā£3,312, leaving the company in the red. The GNoSR was working the
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The quarries at Kemnay leased by Mr John Fyfe are the largest in the north, more material being sent out from them than from all others in the county. Situated in close proximity to the Kemnay station on the Alford Valley
Railway every facility is present to develop the work. On an average Mr Fyfe
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The line was steeply graded, with climbs of 1 in 75 on either side of the summit at
Tillyfourie, but the engineering works were light. A service of four passenger trains was provided in each direction, all of which called at the intermediate stations of Kemnay, Monymusk and Whitehouse. In 1860 an
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The original authorised route had been as far as Alford Bridge, but the shortage of money brought home awareness that a further mile of railway to serve a hamlet was an unnecessary expense. In fact construction of this final section was abandoned by the Alford Valley
Railway Amendment Act of 1862.
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there was widespread financial panic and it proved impossible to generate subscriptions, and the company was unable to proceed. In fact in December 1850 the Company was wound up due to inability to raise money. Only Ā£4,344 of its Ā£100,000 capital had been subscribed, and investors got back only Ā£2
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Passenger carryings were never busy, but granite from quarries near the line was a dominant traffic; in the twentieth century timber was also an important business. In the 1930s passenger and general goods traffic was heavily abstracted by road competition, and the line was closed to passengers in
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A Bill was lodged for amalgamation of the Alford Valley with the GNoSR. The ordinary shares of the AVR would be cancelled and replaced with GNoSR ordinary stock. In fact the GNoSR was already the major shareholder, with a holding of Ā£59,920; other shareholders in aggregate had Ā£18,140. On 30 July
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The Alford Valley Railway was trying to raise capital through a Bill for preference shares. Once again Dr Garden asked a question: what had become of the original capital of the line -- Ā£64,920? There had been 163 shareholders, of whom four had subscribed for Ā£61,000 worth of shares but had never
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Running through purely agricultural terrain to a small town with about 1,200 inhabitants, the line did not thrive financially. The poor roads locally made Lumphanan on the Deeside line an easier railhead. Nevertheless the granite industry around Kemnay provided good business for the railway, in a
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It was the Alford Valley Railway, backed by the GNoSR, that was authorised by Parliament, on 23 June 1856. The Great North of Scotland Railway would subscribe Ā£15,000 of the necessary capital, and would work the line. At a shareholders' meeting, the GNoSR Board was challenged as to the purpose of
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this expenditure (and similar subscriptions to other branch lines) and it was stated that "The aim of the company in making these investments as the smallest sums that could be advanced to enable the proprietors and tenants to develop the traffic of a district". Authorised capital was Ā£85,000.
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and Cushnie to Alford. This line was surveyed but an alternative, also promoted by the Deeside Company was advanced. It was called the Deeside and Alford Valley Extension Railway. Yet another proposal was to build a line from Colford on the Deeside line, through
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gives work to 250 men all the year round, and these with the aid of steam power, which he was the first to introduce in the quarrying of granite, turn out several thousand tons of stone monthly which goes partly to the home and partly to the foreign markets.
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The summit of the line is just west of Tillyfourie at 618 feet (188 metres) above sea level, where a mile-long cutting 30 feet (9 metres) deep required cutting through particularly hard granite. The train took just over an hour for the 16-mile journey.
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The following year the AVR was unable to meet its financial obligations, and in the winter of 1861 the GNoSR asked Parliament for authority to subscribe further sums to the AVR, and to guarantee payment of interest and principal on its mortgage debt.
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Two unadvertised halts were later opened for workmen: at Paradise Siding at national grid reference NJ735172, opened by 1884, and closed after 1938, and at Ratch-Hill Siding NJ767173 opened about 1903; it closed after 1938.
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Some infrastructure improvements were carried out on the line in 1898, with a new station and crossing loop at Kemnay: previously the only crossing station was Tillyfourie - and better facilities at Alford were promised.
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Ratch Hill; for Thomas Taitās granite quarry; first use unknown date; sometimes called Ratch Hill Siding; for Mr. Fyfe's quarrymen; in 1938 timetable shows all trains stopping by request;
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The GNoSR was effective in the transport of timber. This became particularly important during World War II, when the Canadian Forestry Corps set up a depot at Kemnay.
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and Waterton to Tillyfourie, and from there to Alford. Both the proposed lines were to have their terminus at a point near the crossroads which are south of the
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and three other granite quarries in the area, and mineral traffic on the branch was dominant. The Kemnay quarry was the most important:
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on the unbuilt GNoSR line to Alford along the Alford Valley. The authorised share capital was Ā£100,000. However in the aftermath of the
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Alford was a small market town and regional centre in the valley of the
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was a railway company that built a branch line in Scotland, connecting
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being. On 7 November 1966 the line was completely closed.
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Whitehouse; opened 21 March 1859; closed 2 January 1950;
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Tillyfourie; opened 2 June 1860; closed 2 January 1950;
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Monymusk; opened 21 March 1859; closed 2 January 1950;
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Kemnay; opened 21 March 1859; closed 2 January 1950;
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1805:Independent lines worked by the Caledonian Railway
1487:Locomotives of the Great North of Scotland Railway
993:The Great North of Scotland Railway: A New History
733:Kemnay station after provision of the passing loop
696:contemporary authorities, in March of that year".
2184:Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company
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2117:Independent lines worked by the Highland Railway
1482:List of Great North of Scotland Railway stations
1113:, in the Railway Magazine, January 1960, page 27
1018:A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway
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2507:Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway
2279:Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge
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2476:Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint
2446:Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction
2239:Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway
1877:Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction
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2608:Railway companies established in 1856
2603:British companies established in 1856
2234:Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway
1765:Lines built by the Caledonian Railway
1528:Historical Scottish railway companies
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2430:Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness
2380:North British, Arbroath and Montrose
1907:Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr
1654:General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour
1363:Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension
876:miles from Kemnay, towards Monymusk;
2512:Cromarty and Dingwall Light Railway
2144:Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick
1975:Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction
1704:Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie
1347:Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction
952:The Great North of Scotland Railway
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2486:Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint
2289:Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh
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2005:Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction
1629:Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie
1546:Glasgow and South Western Railway
1385:Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction
1345:Aberdeen and Turriff (originally
982:, Cassell, London, 1959, page 146
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2588:Early Scottish railway companies
2542:Perth, Almond Valley and Methven
1714:Perth, Almond Valley and Methven
901:, the line has been dismantled.
828:Chairman: Sir James Elphinstone;
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2364:Newburgh and North Fife Railway
2324:Leadburn, Linton and Dolphinton
2071:Inverness and Aberdeen Junction
1897:Girvan and Portpatrick Junction
1749:Symington, Biggar and Broughton
1551:Great North of Scotland Railway
1330:Great North of Scotland Railway
1078:John Thomas and David Turnock,
899:Alford Valley Community Railway
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2532:Lealt Valley Diatomite Railway
2334:Leven and East of Fife Railway
2319:Kirkcaldy and District Railway
2294:Glasgow and Milngavie Junction
2126:Wick and Lybster Light Railway
1902:Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle
1689:Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire
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638:by going from Kintore through
604:1950, and completely in 1966.
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2410:Slamannan and Borrowstounness
2076:Inverness and Aviemore Direct
1980:Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla
1709:Paisley and Barrhead District
1669:Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock
1644:Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen
1634:Dunblane, Doune and Callander
1369:Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla
1127:Aberdeenshire's Lost Railways
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2471:Glasgow and Renfrew District
2425:West of Fife Mineral Railway
2415:Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway
2299:Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank
2086:Inverness and Perth Junction
1267:Thomas and Turnock, page 315
1249:Thomas and Turnock, page 191
1218:Thomas and Turnock, page 206
1016:Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey,
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2400:Strathendrick and Aberfoyle
2204:Dunfermline and Queensferry
2046:Buckie and Portessie Branch
1882:Castle Douglas and Dumfries
1624:Crieff and Methven Junction
1258:Vallance, pages 172 and 180
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1111:With the Freight to Alford
1100:Vallance, pages 61 and 173
834:Engineer: Alexander Gibb.
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2269:Forth and Clyde Junction
2264:Fife and Kinross Railway
2106:Sutherland and Caithness
2091:Inverness and Ross-shire
1847:Ayr and Maybole Junction
1774:CR Cleland and Midcalder
1684:Lanarkshire and Ayrshire
1414:London and North Eastern
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619:River Don, Aberdeenshire
592:on the main line of the
2481:Kilsyth and Bonnybridge
2390:The St. Andrews Railway
2169:Border Counties Railway
2159:Bathgate and Coatbridge
1837:Ardrossan and Johnstone
1679:Hamilton and Strathaven
1674:Greenock and Wemyss Bay
1664:Glasgow Central Railway
1477:AberdeenāInverness line
1367:Banffshire (originally
1240:Croughton etc, page 117
1020:, 1963, pages 44 and 45
539:AberdeenāInverness line
449:AberdeenāInverness line
2244:Edinburgh and Northern
2219:Edinburgh and Dalkeith
2214:Edinburgh and Bathgate
2025:St Combs Light Railway
1867:Bridge of Weir Railway
1794:CR Hamiltonhill Branch
1739:Scottish North Eastern
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2461:Darvel and Strathaven
2420:West Highland Railway
2314:Kinross-shire Railway
2304:Kelvin Valley Railway
2224:Edinburgh and Glasgow
2121:Dornoch Light Railway
2000:Formartine and Buchan
1912:Greenock and Ayrshire
1842:Ayr and Dalmellington
1561:North British Railway
1380:Formartine and Buchan
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20:Alford Valley Railway
2375:North Berwick Branch
2229:Edinburgh and Hawick
2209:East of Fife Railway
2199:Devon Valley Railway
2174:Border Union Railway
1960:Aberdeen and Turriff
1917:Kilmarnock and Troon
1659:Garnkirk and Glasgow
1353:Aboyne & Braemar
2552:Skye Marble Railway
2517:Dundee and Arbroath
2456:Dundee and Arbroath
2354:Montrose and Bervie
2274:Gifford and Garvald
2081:Inverness and Nairn
1937:Paisley and Renfrew
1759:Wishaw and Coltness
1609:Clydesdale Junction
1594:Arbroath and Forfar
1125:Gordon Stansifeld,
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2111:Sutherland Railway
2056:Duke of Sutherland
2030:Strathspey Railway
2010:Keith and Dufftown
1965:Aboyne and Braemar
1942:Paisley Canal Line
1932:Maybole and Girvan
1927:Maidens and Dunure
1823:Glasgow and South
1809:Callander and Oban
1789:CR Hamilton Branch
1699:Lesmahagow Railway
1649:Forfar and Brechin
1541:Caledonian Railway
1433:Keith and Dufftown
1390:Keith and Dufftown
1276:Vallance, page 183
854:Tillyfourie Quarry
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46:Dates of operation
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2349:Monkland Railways
2194:Coatbridge Branch
2101:Perth and Dunkeld
2051:Dingwall and Skye
1832:Ardrossan Railway
1799:CR The Switchback
1784:CR Douglas Branch
1619:Crieff and Comrie
1604:Cathcart District
1534:Primary companies
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1421:Heritage railways
1409:Successor railway
1182:Vallance, page 62
1109:J Spencer Gilks,
1050:Vallance, page 61
978:Ernest F Carter,
798:Railways Act 1921
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2061:Findhorn Railway
2039:Highland Railway
1953:Scotland Railway
1852:Ayr to Mauchline
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2439:Joint lines
2015:Moray Coast
1459:Deeside Way
1452:Rail trails
1337:Constituent
1285:M E Quick,
640:Tillyfourie
319:Tillyfourie
70:Track gauge
2572:Categories
2451:City Union
2254:Esk Valley
2154:Ballochney
2020:Morayshire
1570:Caledonian
1443:Strathspey
1400:Strathspey
1395:Morayshire
925:References
266:Whitehouse
2405:Slamannan
839:Locations
788:From 1923
652:Lumphanan
646:from its
623:Inverness
457:Inverness
64:Technical
54:Successor
1339:railways
820:Officers
648:Banchory
598:Aberdeen
547:Aberdeen
341:Monymusk
93: in
40:Scotland
31:Overview
2137:Railway
1990:Deeside
1572:Railway
1375:Deeside
871:⁄
811:Closure
683:Opening
627:Kintore
608:History
590:Kintore
511:Kintore
133:Railway
88:⁄
586:Alford
363:Kemnay
296:summit
187:Alford
142:Legend
36:Locale
1589:Alyth
905:Notes
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657:Echt
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