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	Scottish Railway Timetables 1964
	When I was growing up in the suburbs of Aberdeen, train travel was something very exotic, but wherever we lived, there always seemed to be a disused railway or station nearby. There had in fact been plenty of railway lines where I lived, but all but one had closed by the 1960s. This page has scans of some of the timetables for these services form the British Railways Scottish Region Timetable for 15th June - 6th September 1964. all these lines (save part of the Aberdeen - Inverness route) had been opened by the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR). Clicking on the name links will take you to Ewan Crawford's excellent pages on Scottish railways.
	Aberdeen - Inverness - Page one - Page two - Page three - Page four - The only service still running today. However, there are only eight stations left between the two points, and one route between Keith and Elgin, as opposed to the three in 1964. The Buchan Lines (Peterhead, Fraserburgh and St. Combs) - Page one - The two main lines have since been converted to long-distance footpaths. The St Combs branch was the last proper railway to open in the area, in 1903. The Banff and Deeside lines - Page one - The railway to Banff was a short branch which produced a much less direct to Aberdeen and the south than the buses did. This was the only line to close during the period of this timetable, on the 6th of July that year. The Deeside line was famed for carrying the Royal family to Balmoral, and for running trials of an experimental battery-powered train during this period. A short section is shortly to reopen as a preserved railway. The Speyside line - Page one - This railway ran through an area sparse in population, but rich in distilleries! Services on the line were provided by diesel railbuses during this period. Like the Buchan lines, this has since been converted to a long-distance footpath.

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