It seems quite extraordinary that yesterday a pseudo celebration - the official opening of the Formartine Buchan Way - was held at Maud Station almost a year after the last section of the footpath, Maud to Brucklay, was completed. According to a report in today's Press and Journal, the Provost of Aberdeenshire, Jill Webster, visited the station yesterday to officially open the walkway. There appears to have been no obvious advance publicity of the event and at the station today no commemorative plaque was apparent. Such a low key and tardy ceremony seems quite pointless and appears to beg the question of the Council's embarrassment and ambivalent position given their support for a feasibility study to consider reinstating the railway on the line.
There was nothing to indicate that the Formartine Buchan Way is officially open beyond this attractive information board, one of several placed strategically along the Line in recent months.
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| Maud Station today, the WW2 air raid shelter and beyond it the Railway Museum which is housed in the station buildings on the island platform. |
I totally agree with you. This is something we should be fighting for. Not the reopening of the railway, how much would that cost! But the preservation of this wildlife corridor and from what I know a well used footpath and cycleway.
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