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Extract from the Ballater Travel Guides:
Ten miles west of Aboyne is the neat and ordered town of
BALLATER
, attractively hemmed in by the river and fir-covered mountains. It was in Ballater that Queen Victoria first arrived in Deeside by train from Aberdeen back in 1848; she wouldn't allow a station to be built any closer to Balmoral, eight miles further west. Although the line has long been closed, the town's rather self-important royalism is much in evidence at the restored
train station
in the centre of town (same hours as the tourist office), where various video presentations and life-sized models relive the comings and goings of generations of royals...
read the whole Ballater Travel Guides...
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