Maud Railway Museum, opened in 1995 and housed in part of the station buildings on the central platform at Maud, regularly holds a series of weekend open afternoons over the summer months. A visit to this busy little museum is always worthwhile for anyone who remembers the days of the Buchan Line.
Maud was the junction of lines running to Aberdeen, Fraserburgh and Peterhead.
This sign would have been on the Peterhead platform.
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| Model of the layout of Maud Station on display in the museum. Peterhead trains used the nearest side platforms, those on the far side were for Fraserburgh. Carriages bound for Fraserburgh on trains running through from Aberdeen to Peterhead were uncoupled just south of the station to be taken on to the Fraserburgh Line. The goods yard behind the station largely catered for cattle serving the mart. |
Poster commemorating 150 years of the Formartine and Buchan Railway.
The line reached Maud from Dyce in 1861 and was extended to Peterhead by July 1862. The Fraserburgh branch opened in March 1865
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| GNSR curved brass pillar plate, probably from a main office |
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