Road-rail vehicle
RRV 360 ready for action! Our long-sought-for road rail vehicle (an RRV 360) finally came into our possession early this September. It will greatly facilitate the working of our dedicated permanent way team.
RRV 360 ready for action! Our long-sought-for road rail vehicle (an RRV 360) finally came into our possession early this September. It will greatly facilitate the working of our dedicated permanent way team.
We are now able to take bookings for charters for the remainder of 2020
Great news! As from 15th July this popular cafe will re-open. Check out their Facebook page.
We regret that this event had now been cancelled. Those who had made reservations will be refunded.
Please send any agenda items to Alistair Coull at Dufftown Station.
Here’s a great way to spend your extra Leap Year Day, don’t waste it! Join our volunteers helping to keep our track in running order. Here we were on our last line day on 8th February; check this! https://youtu.be/ulAQpemFbrA You could become a YouTube star!
Ground preparation for a new picnic area next to the car park has been ongoing over the winter months. Thanks to a successful Christmas tree sale last December, we found enough money to buy two sturdy picnic tables. These will be be ready in time for the hot summer months!
On 16 th February a works train consisting of the guards van, flatrol and powered by the UDV left Dufftown. The flatrol was loaded with 22 concrete sleepers and a steel cabinet for PW use and was conveyed to the current PW site at Mill of Towie. The PW team went by road and met […]
All pictures in this section courtesy of Phin Sloan. The following 4 photos show the overgrown state of the vegetation on the approach to Keith Town Station in early October 2017. A clearance team (aided by a Community Service Group) was assembled. The following 4 photos show the state of the vegetation on the approach […]
Travelling north from Towiemore Halt heading towards Keith the train passes the site of the former Towiemore Distillery then a stand of trees. Just after the trees a drainage ditch flows, in a culvert, below the line and then into the River Isla. This culvert had partially collapsed leaving part of the former distillery site […]