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Keith railway station is a railway station serving the town of Keith, Moray, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line. It is situated east of the town centre and staffed on a part-time basis. ==History== The station was originally owned by the Highland Railway and was known as Keith Junction, the line from the west having opened by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway in 1858 and becoming part of the Highland Railway in 1865.〔(Railscot - Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway ) www.railbrit.co.uk; Retrieved 2013-12-19〕 It was the point where the line from made an end-on junction with the Great North of Scotland Railway from Aberdeen (which opened in 1856)〔(Timeline of the Great North of Scotland Railway )''The LNER Encyclopedia''; Retrieved 2013-12-19〕 to enable exchange of goods and passengers. As built, it was located in the vee of the routes to Inverness and to (which diverges to the southwest here) and had four platforms - one through one for each route, plus two east facing bays for GNSR services.〔(GNSRA Stations Gallery )''Great North of Scotland Railway Association''; Retrieved 2013-12-19〕 It was taken over by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at the 1923 Grouping and then became part of the Scottish Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948. Today only a single platform remains in full-time use, though the Dufftown branch platform (numbered 1) is available if required for turning back trains from the Aberdeen direction (though no trains are scheduled to do so in the current timetable).〔GB National Rail Timetable 2013-14, Table 240 (Network Rail)〕 The bays have been filled in, having been abandoned & tracks lifted in the early 1970s after the closure of the Moray Coast Line (for which the station was a terminus). A signal box (which retains the name ''Keith Junction'') remains at the eastern end to control a passing loop on the single track main line beyond the station, the now little-used goods yard (formerly used by trains accessing the nearby Chivas Regal whisky plant) and the stub of the Dufftown branch. Keith's other station, Keith Town, was on the Great North of Scotland Railway branch line to Dufftown (first opened in 1862) and subsequently extended to via - this was much nearer the centre of Keith than the Junction station. The Dufftown & Craigellachie line was closed to passengers by British Railways in May 1968 as a result of the Beeching Axe, though freight traffic and latterly ''Northern Belle'' excursion trains to the distillery at Dufftown kept the route to there open until 1991.〔(Scot-rail.co.uk: Keith and Dufftown Railway ) Retrieved 2013-12-19〕 The line has since been preserved as the Keith and Dufftown Railway (reopening in 2000/01), but the link between it and the national network was severed by Railtrack in 1998 - two 60-foot track panels having been removed as a condition of the transfer of the branch to the K&DR.〔(Keith & Dufftown Railway - Keith Junction )''Keith & Dufftown Railway''; Retrieved 2013-12-19〕 The preservation society hopes to reinstate the connection and the still-extant but disused section beyond to Keith Town at some point in the future and run through trains from here to Dufftown, which would see platform 1 return to regular use. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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