IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Snipe Street, ELLON, AB41 9FW

Ellon has expanded greatly in the last 20 years and now has its own suburban sprawl.

On the south (right) bank of the river is a large area of housing, none of which is on the 1976 1:50,000 map. This indicates how fast Ellon has grown in recent decades.

The viaduct at Ellon carried the Great North of Scotland Railway from Aberdeen to the fishing towns of Peterhead and Fraserburgh over the River Ythan. Passenger trains ceased to run in 1965 with closure to all traffic in 1979. Ellon was also the junction for a branch built to serve the railway companies massive luxury hotel at Cruden Bay. The whole of the 38 miles between Dyce and Peterhead and the 16 miles between Maud Junction and Fraserburgh have been converted into a long distance cycle/walkway, the 'Formartine & Buchan Way'

Looking downstream from the former railway viaduct, which now carries the Formartine and Buchan Way, a long-distance walking and cycling route on the bed of the former railway.

The old rail bridge over the Ythan , once carrying the passenger and goods trains of the Buchan Line now it carries a walkway the telegraph line though is still sadly redundant.

As part of the infamous Beeching cuts the death knell of the Buchan Line, Ellon Station and the bridge went into disuse. Unlike its partner over the Pitmeden road to the south this bridge survived and now provides walkers and cyclists with a safe, dry and elevated crossing of the Ythan.

The telegraph as well as the rail lines have long gone on the old rail bridge over the Ythan at Ellon.

The southern approach to the viaduct which now carries a footpath /cycle path.

From the Ythan walkway the old railway bridge spans the Ythan. Now itself a walkway part of the Formartine Line Walk which runs from Dyce north to Mintlaw.

Housing on the edge of Ellon, seen from the old railway.