 The track is now part of the National Cycle Network, as National Route 195.The Deeside Railway was a line that travelled from Aberdeen to Ballater as a stretch of the Great North of Scotland Railway, it closed in 1966 as part of the Beeching cuts.Its tracks have since been removed, except for a small one-mile section used as the Royal Deeside heritage railway, and the path opened to the public on the former route.