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Station, still in use, built 1849 in Italianate style by the Aberdeen Railway Company, extended in the late 19th century with the addition of a single storey wing in similar style and altered and restored in 2000. It is a 2 platform through station, with the main offices on the up platform, with the platform at first floor level. Built of squared, coursed dressed rubble, with bull-faced dressings. It has round-arched openings, some as bipartite set into round-arched frame and some arcaded with pilaster mullions. There is an unusually heavy cast iron-framed platform awning with a top-lit timber canopy with decorative pierced timber valance cantilevered over platform on cast columns with large scrolled ironwork brackets. Coped ridge stacks with decorative arrowslits and circular cans and cast iron rainwater goods. The interior of the station is largely remodelled retaining moulded plasterwork cornices and vertically boarded dadoes to the ticket hall and staircase. The OS 2nd edition map shows the station, signal box (ECN5) and signal posts. The signal box is a Caledonian Railway (Northern Division) Type 2 box installed in 1901 and sited notably and prominently on the platform to the left of the main station building. It is rectangular in plan, comprising a painted brick base with two blocked round-arched openings flanking a shallow projects at the centre and small-pane glazing to timber frame windows to northwest, northeast and southwest. there is a timber forestair to the signal cabin. The Goods Shed (Listed C) is probably of late 19th century date, single storey and rectangular in plan, of vertically boarded timber and now in use as a motor workshops. Stonehaven Station is the only surviving example of the original stations on Aberdeen Railway's main line. When first opened 30th (October 1849) trains ran only as far as Limpet Mill, but the Aberdeen link was completed by April 1850.
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