Railway line in the United Kingdom
The railway passing underneath Union Bridge Union Bridge viewed from the lower side of Union Terrace Gardens The Denburn Valley Line was a connecting line constructed to connect the northern end of the Aberdeen Railway and Deeside Railway to the southern end of the Great North of Scotland Railway mainline.
History The line was built over a former stream – the den burn .[ 1] Union Bridge .[ 2] "joint station" , a new through-station, and two smaller stations: Schoolhill and Hutcheon Street .[ 3] Union Terrace Gardens opened in the 1870s.[ 1]
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 and the start of the Aberdeen–Inverness line . The joint station is now the only railway station in central Aberdeen. The Trinity Centre was built over part of the line.[ 2]
References 57°09′13″N 2°06′38″W / 57.15368°N 2.11060°W / 57.15368; -2.11060
Historical Scottish railway companies
Primary companies Caledonian Glasgow and South Great North of Highland Railway North British
Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick Anstruther and St Andrews Railway Ballochney Bathgate and Coatbridge Blane Valley Border Counties Railway Border Union Railway Campsie Branch Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company Charlestown Railway and Harbour Company Coatbridge Branch Devon Valley Railway Dunfermline and Queensferry East of Fife Railway Edinburgh and Bathgate Edinburgh and Dalkeith Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh and Hawick Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Esk Valley Eyemouth Railway Fife and Kinross Railway Forth and Clyde Junction Gifford and Garvald Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Glasgow City and District Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Kelvin Valley Railway Kincardine Line Kinross-shire Railway Kirkcaldy and District Railway Leadburn, Linton and Dolphinton Leven Railway Leven and East of Fife Railway Macmerry Branch Monkland and Kirkintilloch Monkland Railways Montrose and Bervie Mallaig Extension Newburgh and North Fife Railway (worked by NBR)Newport Railway North Berwick Branch North British, Arbroath and Montrose Peebles Railway The St. Andrews Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Slamannan Slamannan and Borrowstounness Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway West Highland Railway West of Fife Mineral Railway Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Joint lines Other lines
