Maud Railway Museum ready to reopen for 2022 season

Maud Railway Museum opens this weekend for the 2022 season.

The Trustees of the museum hope to open fortnightly over the summer and are seeking more volunteers to help with this project.

Opening times are from 10am to 4pm on both days and admission is free although donations or purchases from our bookshop area are suggested to help cover our costs.

Over the last two years, despite the coronavirus pandemic, much has been done to improve the environment of the platform area with new paving stones and signage to improve the visitor experience.

Parking is available adjacent to the museum and walkers and cyclists using the Formartine and Buchan Way along the former Dyce to Fraserburgh and Peterhead Railway line are also invited to look into the museum.

The museum now occupies two units at the old Maud Junction Railway Station with not only the traditional exhibits in the old booking hall and waiting area but also a second room, at one time the famous station Refreshment Rooms, with audio-visual, model and photographic displays.

Outside are two historic railway vehicles, including a carriage used to convey convict labour from Peterhead prison to the Stirlinghill Quarry to extract granite to build the breakwaters at Peterhead harbour.

These are enhanced with a display of old platform trolleys and barrows once familiar at railway stations; also various other historic artefacts.

The museum welcomes donations of photographs and local railway relics and is also happy to arrange special opening for visits of schools, clubs and societies.

For more information you can contact info@friendsofmaud.org.uk

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