All aboard for the last open weekend of Maud Railway Museum's 2022 season

Maud Museum opens this Saturday and Sunday, October 15 and 16, from 10.30am-4pm.

This will be the last open weekend of the 2022 season.

This season the museum has welcomed a record number of visitors, with over 1000 people from across the UK as well as from as far afield as mainland Europe and the United States of America popping in.

The passenger carrying miniature railway will be operational alongside the former Fraserburgh line platform on both days, assuming no adverse weather.

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 near Longside.

The trustees are always pleased to receive artefacts and photographs of local railway interest, and most recently added to the collection were two cast iron finials which topped a Deeside line station name board and various documents, lamps and models.

Over the winter it is intended to improve the photographic displays and retail area within the museum, and volunteers with suitable skills are being sought to help with these projects.

It is also hoped to install a railway wagon turntable donated by the owners of the former Tool Works at Fraserburgh.

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