Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Great North of Scotland Railway

Great North of Scotland Railway

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 20, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 11:19, 1 September 2014 (UTC)



The Great North of Scotland Railway was one of the smaller Scottish railways operating in the far north-east of the country. Formed in 1845, it carried its first passengers from Kittybrewster, in Aberdeen, to Huntly on 20 September 1854. An early expansion was followed by a period of forced economy, but in the 1880s the railway was refurbished and express services began to run, and by the end of that decade there was a suburban service in Aberdeen. The railway operated its main line between Aberdeen and Keith and two routes west to Elgin; connections could be made at both Keith and Elgin for services to Inverness. Its eventual area encompassed the counties of Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray, with short lengths of line in Inverness-shire and Kincardineshire. Fish from the North Sea ports and whisky from Speyside became important goods traffic. The Royal Family used the Deeside Line for travel to and from Balmoral Castle. The railway became the Northern Scottish area of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. Although the railway had several branches, its remoteness has resulted in only its main line remaining today as part of the Aberdeen to Inverness Line.
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 * Main editors: Edgepedia
 * Promoted: 13 October 2013
 * Reasons for nomination: An article on a small Scottish railway company; I suggest that it runs on the 160th anniversary of the opening of its first line.
 * Support as nominator. Edgepedia (talk) 18:30, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I've not been around as much as I used to be, and I'll be away for the next two weeks. Hopefully this will not cause any problems and I'll check here when I get back. Edgepedia (talk) 18:38, 1 August 2014 (UTC)