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Maud Museum defies rail strikes to offer miniature railway fun


By Kirsty Brown

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Maud Museum will be open this weekend, August 20 and 21, from 10.30am-4pm.

The passenger carrying miniature railway will be operational alongside the former Fraserburgh line platform on both days, assuming no adverse weather, and because of national rail strikes this will be the only passenger train operating in Aberdeenshire on Saturday!

In the museum there are various displays both of photographs and artefacts depicting the railways of Buchan, and a couple of railway vehicles including a prison carriage from the Peterhead Harbour Of Refuge line used to carry convicts to work at Stirlinghill Quarries.

Also of interest is a display covering the World War I airship base at Lenabo near Longside.

Volunteers at the museum have recently received recently a large collection of books and documents from the family of one of the museum's long-standing supporters, Ian Sandison from Turriff, who sadly passed away recently.

The museum will next be open on September 3 and 4.


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