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 […]

All pictures courtesy of Ros Rhodes. The KDR ran its Ghost Trains on 27th and 28th October and we also had a booking to provide transport for the wedding of Daisy and Aaron on Saturday 28 October 2017. One of our units, Spirit of Speyside, was decorated for the Ghost Trains and naturally this was […]

Pictures in this section courtesy of Nigel Bodiam and Ros Rhodes. There follows a small selection of photos showing some of the sights which met the brave (foolhardy?) travellers arriving at Dufftown station to board the Ghost Train. Some pictures were just too terrifying to put on the web! Photos Ros Rhodes Photos Ros Rhodes […]