End of the line

All that remains of Fraserburgh Railway Station is the engine shed - now part of a fish yard. Fraserburgh was the terminus of the Maud to Fraserburgh Branch of the Formartin and Buchan Line. Fittingly for a railway which carried more fish than humans, the station was built on the site of former boilyards- a relic of a brief period in the mid 1800s when Fraserburgh boats were involved sealing and whaling off the Greenland coast. The railway station was opened in 1865, closed to passengers around a century later - a victim of the Beeching Axe. Freight, mainly related to the oil and gas industries continued to be carried until 1979 when the line closed completely. It is now a long distance footpath.