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Knockando, ABERLOUR, AB38 7RP

Just beside the former railway about half-way between Tamdhu and Knockando Distilleries.

These steps provide access for anglers to Craig Pool on the River Spey.

Now a pleasant halt on the Speyside Way.

The river here is very shallow, as can be seen by the fly fisherman, who is standing mid-stream in water barely over his knees.

This reach of the River Spey is mapped as Craig Pool.

Former station buildings line the former railway line, now part of the Speyside Way long-distance footpath.

The oval-shaped picnic table with matching benches is on the platform of the former Tamdhu railway station, with a view over the trackbed to the restored station building.

I know it says Tamdhu, but Tamdhu Distillery did not exist when the railway was built, and second edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map names it as Dalbeallie Station, after a farm a few hundred metres further east. See http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=57.4584&lon=-3.3512&layers=6&b=1. Disused since Dr Beeching's savage cuts in the 1960s, much of the Strathspey Railway now forms the route of the Speyside Way. The station buildings at Tamdhu have been preserved as a point of interest, and the station building served for a time as the Tamdhu Distillery visitor centre, though it was empty when I took a look in today. The nearest building was the signal box.

The flight of steps leads down to the river's edge from the platform at the former Tamdhu Station, providing an excellent opportunity for kayakers to set off on the river, photographers to photograph it and small children and dogs to fall in.