[1] The campaign was launched in March 2021 by engineers Wyndham Williams and Craig Leuchars, and train driver Jordan Jack.

[2][3] While Nestrans had previously decided reopening the lines was poor value for money, CNER disagrees with this and cites the Borders Railway outperforming passenger number predictions.

[4] In July 2022, the organisation put in an application for £250,000 from the Just Transition Fund for a feasibility study for the proposals.

[6] The proposed line north of Aberdeen would roughly follow the former Formartine and Buchan Railway between Dyce and Fraserburgh.

The reopening of the Deeside Railway as far as Banchory is also proposed, with an integrated bus link to Braemar.