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Updated: February 25, 2021, 10:04 am © Unknown A large crowd at Aberdeen s Joint Station gets ready to board the last train to Ballater on Saturday, February 26 1966. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up As crowds thronged at Ballater to clamber on the train to Aberdeen Joint Station, there was poignancy to the number on the front of the engine – 2B. In this case, it was not to be. For this was the last passenger train along the Deeside railway on February 26 1966, trundling along the tracks of the “Royal Line” – graced by monarchs from Queen Victoria onwards – before it was axed in the swingeing Beeching cuts of the 1960s.

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