The Formartine & Buchan Way

Opened in the early 1990s, the Formartine and Buchan Way runs along the former route of the railway that extended from Dyce on the fringes of Aberdeen north to Maud, where it split with branches heading to both Fraserburgh and Peterhead.
The line was a victim of the 1960s Beeching cuts, though it continued to carry freight to Peterhead until 1970 and to Fraserburgh until 1979. The Buchan Countryside Group began the work of reopening the route as a cycleway and footpath in 1987. Today the route offers a peaceful walking route through pleasant, lowland countryside and rich farmland.

 

I walked the length of the Formartine and Buchan Way over the span of 4 days throughout Spring 2014, starting on 9 March.

I am not going to write a full report on this here but you can view a report I made earlier on the Walkhighlands forum which includes lots of pictures :

Formatine & Buchan Way report