The Denburn Valley Line was a connecting line constructed to connect the northern end of the

Aberdeen Railway The Aberdeen Railway was a Scottish railway company which built a line from Aberdeen to Forfar and Arbroath, partly by leasing and upgrading an existing railway. The line opened in stages between 1847 and 1850, with branches to Brechin and M ...

and

Deeside Railway The Deeside Railway was a passenger and goods railway between Aberdeen and Ballater in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Opening in 1853 to Banchory, an extension reached Aboyne in 1859. A separate company, the Aboyne & Braemar Railway, built an extensi ...

to the southern end of the

Great North of Scotland Railway The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) was one of the two smallest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping, operating in the north-east of the country. Formed in 1845, it carried its first passengers the fro ...

mainline.

History

The line was built over a former stream – the ''den burn''. It also passed underneath the existing Union Bridge. It opened on 4 November 1867. The project included the "joint station", a new through-station, and two smaller stations: Schoolhill and Hutcheon Street. The adjacent

Union Terrace Gardens Union Terrace Gardens is a public park and gardens situated on Union Terrace, Aberdeen, Union Terrace in Aberdeen, Scotland. The gardens The sunken gardens opened to the public in 1879, and cover approximately two and a half acres . The spac ...

opened in the 1870s. Hutcheon Street and Schoolhill stations closed in 1937 as the local cross-city service was discontinued.

Present day

The line is still in use today as the end of the

Dundee–Aberdeen line The Dundee–Aberdeen line is a railway line linking Dundee and Aberdeen in Scotland. History The present line was built by three companies. The first section to open was the line from Dundee to Arbroath in 1838, constructed by the Dundee and ...

and the start of the

Aberdeen–Inverness line The Aberdeen–Inverness line is a railway line in Scotland linking and . It is not electrified. Most of the line is single-track, other than passing places and longer double-track sections between Insch and Kennethmont and Inverurie and Berry ...

. The joint station is now the only railway station in central Aberdeen. The Trinity Centre was built over part of the line.

References

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