Please Mr. Porter

A collection of luggage on the platform at Maud Railway Museum on the disused track which is now the Formartine and Buchan Way. Maud Junction was where the lines from Peterhead and Fraserburgh met and was sited close to what was, for a time, the largest fatstock cattle market in Scotland. Cattle could be sent from Maud to Smithfield in a matter of hours as opposed to weeks in the days of droving. Fish from Peterhead and Fraserburgh was the other mainstay of a line on which freight was always more profitable than passengers.