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Old Photograph Railway Station Oyne Scotland
Old photograph of the railway station in Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Aberdeen to Inverness main line of the former Highland and Great North of Scotland Railways, subsequently grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway was opened by the latter company on 20 September 1854. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968; the line itself remains in use. The village has limited local resources. It has a daily bus service to Inverurie 8 miles away and to Huntly. The area is popular with commuters to Inverurie, Huntly and Aberdeen, a journey of around 30 minutes. The area has a number of large private houses such as Westhall House, which was a small hotel until the 1990s. The Horn family were lairds of Westhall.
The Huntly surname of English and Scots origin, from places so called in Gloucestershire, England, and Berwick, and Aberdeen in Scotland. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century " hunta ", a hunter, and " leah ", a wood or clearing in a wood.
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