GNSR Elgin Station 03/2010

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Thank you to Springfield Properties Ltd for allowing me access and for giving me permission to photograph and report this place. Also a big thank you for allowing me access to the old buildings whenever I need them for my own photo shoots and for when I am photographing models.

I noticed an old building when near Asda and was on the phone to Wurzel at the time and asked him what it was, he told me it was Old Elgin Train Station, I wanted to explore and he suggested asking the folks who use the buildings. Inside now has a few small businesses using the place. I didn't think I'd be allowed but I explained that I Explore/model/photographer and would be interested in exploring, documenting and reporting the place and using it as a backdrop more than once so they gave me the owners number to phone. I phoned him, that's fine, just give him credit every time I use the place. That to me is fine, that's a small price to pay.

Great Northern Scot Railway, Elgin Station.
The outside.

More Olde Images can be found here.

Elgin Station, rebuilt 1902 by the Great North of Scotland Rly. An elaborate through and terminal station with the main offices on the down side in a two-storey and attic ashlar block, basically on an H plan, with wings at both ends. Now closed to passengers, though the goods yard, with wooden shed, is still in use.
J R Hume 1977.

This station was opened as the terminal station of the Morayshire Rly. (serving branches along the Moray coast) on 10 August 1852. It was incorporated into the Great North of Scotland Rly. and closed to regular passenger traffic at an unspecified date.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 October 2000.
R V J Butt 1995.

More Here

Pictures of the inside coming soon (Still going through them).

Sources;
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/se...CAHMS&id=16597
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/location.php?loc=Elgin%20East

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Inside The Train Station itself.

All of the pictures I took are here, I took a lot more outside the building.

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Not the best but that's where the live railway is.

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Nothing like a late night explore.
I was on Google Maps looking where the disused tracks went to, behind the Moray Council Depot so after crawling though mud, under fences, losing my lense cap (lense is fine and I found it eventually), losing damn near everything on me (I regret not taking a bag...) I eventually found the train track that just kind of stops into nowhere.

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Thank you

I was back again today... I love this place and I have located the small Viaduct for the Elgin - Lossiemouth GNSR, actually been over it many times before but never thought about what it was (Will get pictures in an hour or so I think)... I might cover the GNSR from Cullen to Elgin and see what's hidden away in the trees. Give myself a project

I missed this from my last visit, not sure what this is or how I miss it but here's a pic

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Thank you

I was back again today... I love this place and I have located the small Viaduct for the Elgin - Lossiemouth GNSR, actually been over it many times before but never thought about what it was (Will get pictures in an hour or so I think)... I might cover the GNSR from Cullen to Elgin and see what's hidden away in the trees. Give myself a project

I missed this from my last visit, not sure what this is or how I miss it but here's a pic

Pooley weighbridge!

"it was made by Henry Pooley & Son Ltd of Birmingham, London and Liverpool. Pooleys were a firm of mechanical engineers, founded in Liverpool in the 18th century. Shown as Pooley of Liverpool in Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham. They started to make platform scales c1835. Their main office was at the Albion Foundry, Liverpool until c1890 (before 1907), when it moved to John Bright Street, Birmingham. In 1913 the firm became part of the Avery organisation, but continued as a separate firm. The firm was responsible for supplying and maintaining the weights and scale of many railway companies."