Place Alves Pre-grouping Highland Railway 3 May 1965 Station Closed | Area Moray 25 November 1858 Station opened Platforms in use 2 | |
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Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway Original company Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway | ||
Alves was a railway station located near Elgin, in the Scottish administrative area of Moray. The station was the junction where the line to Burghead and Hopeman diverged from the line from Aberdeen to Inverness.
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History
Opened by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway, then absorbed by the Highland Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board in May 1965 as a result of the Beeching Axe.
Passenger services on the Burghead & Hopeman branch line (opened in 1862) were withdrawn considerably earlier, by the LMS back in September 1931. Goods traffic continued (in the form of grain to the whisky distillery at Roseisle and the maltings at Burghead) until 1992. The section as far the former was reopened in January 1998, but traffic ceased again shortly afterwards and the branch is now disused & overgrown (though still intact).
The site today
Trains still pass the site on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line. The station building has survived and is now a private residence.