Montrose and Bervie Railway

The Montrose and
Bervie Railway

Overview
Locale	Scotland
Dates of operation	1865–1966
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Route map Legend Scottish North Eastern Railway Montrose Aberdeen Railway Montrose (Caledonian) Aberdeen Railway Broomfield Junction Halt North Water Bridge Halt North Water Viaduct St Cyrus Lauriston Johnshaven Birnie Road Halt Gourdon Bervie renamed Inverbervie in 1926

The Montrose and Bervie Railway was a Scottish railway. When the Aberdeen Railway opened in 1850, the coastal settlements north of Montrose were not linked in, and local interests promoted a branch line from Montrose to Bervie. They found it impossible to raise capital at first, but from 1861 the larger railways were promoting new connections around Aberdeen, and the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) decided that the Bervie line would give it a route to the south.

That scheme did not proceed, but the GNoSR had put money in, and the simple branch line opened, in 1865.

It was absorbed by the North British Railway in 1881, who also thought it might give them a springboard towards Aberdeen; that scheme also failed to materialise, and the line remained a quiet backwater.

Road transport spelt doom for the sparsely trafficked line, and it closed for passengers in 1951 and completely in 1966.