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Strathisla Mills railway station

railway station in Moray, Scotland, UK

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ68377125 ↗
Source-derived summary

Strathisla Mills railway station served the town of Keith, Moray, Scotland from 1985 to 1993 on the Keith and Dufftown Railway.

History

The station opened in 1985 by ScotRail, although it was only used for excursions at first until opening to the public on 29 May 1989. It was only intended to serve visitors at Strathisla distillery. The station closed in August 1993.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Strathisla Mills railway station” is railway station in Moray, Scotland, UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Strathisla, Mills and railway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 1993, 1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Strathisla, Mills and railway is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station in Moray, Scotland, UK” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q68377125. Authority coordinates are 57.547, -2.956. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985, 1993 and 1989.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Strathisla Mills railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Strathisla Mills railway station primary sources, Strathisla Mills railway station archive and Strathisla research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Strathisla Mills railway station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Strathisla Mills railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.