1956 January, H. A. Vallance, “Northwards from Aberdeen”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
By the 1890s, however, efforts were being made to popularise Port Errol [sic] and Cruden Bay as seaside resorts, and on August 24, 1893, a branch was authorised from Ellon to Cruden Bay, and thence northwards to the fishing haven of Boddam.