General view of Station

Description General view of Station

Date 1890

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number BL 10346/22

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 730398, B 64133

Scope and Content Station Buildings, Gourock Pier Railway Station, Kempock Point, Gourock, Inverclyde (now demolished) Gourock Pier Railway Station, considered to be the most advanced railway pier of its time, was designed by the Glasgow architect, James Miller, and built in 1889 as a major railway steamer interchange for the Caledonian Railway Company. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the station in 1890. The station buildings, typical of the Caledonian Railway's design of the period, were built in Miller's favoured simple English domestic style, mainly in brick, with harled, bold black and white half-timbered gables, Tudor-style chimney-stacks and a steeply pitched roof which slightly overhung the quayside to provide shelter. In 1888 James Miller joined the drawing office of the Caledonian Railway Company at a time when the railway companies had become powerful empires. New rail networks extended the boundaries of Glasgow, and the company's lines down the west coast spawned commuter towns and villages, encouraged leisure travel and allowed seaside resorts like Gourock to develop seasonal tourism. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

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