Grey Granite was talking to a friend who remembered taking the train from Fraserburgh Station to Philorth Halt for Sunday School picnics during the middle years of the 20th century. The excitement included walking down to the station to catch the train for the short, (1.5miles) journey to the halt. Here everyone would disembark from the train, steam in those days of course, and walk to a field in the Philorth Estate. During the afternoon there would be races and games. The picnic food was traditionally a hot pie and a ‘baggie’ containing 3 or 4 fancy pieces. A small glass bottle of lemonade with a ‘crown’ top, which had to be removed with a bottle opener, was also provided.
The train journey to Aberdeen during this period was described as very slow, mainly because the train ‘stopped at every hen hoose’.
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