Hawick Station View of goods yard platform crane by Meiklejohn & Pursell of Dalkeith
SC 429910
Description Hawick Station View of goods yard platform crane by Meiklejohn & Pursell of Dalkeith
Date 1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 429910
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Hand crane, Hawick Station, Hawick, Roxburghshire Hawick was the terminus of the Hawick branch of the North British Railway, opened in 1849, but this station dates from the construction of the Border Union Railway from Hawick to Carlisle, which opened in 1862. This view shows a hand operated crane in the former goods yard. This was used for handling heavier articles of freight. Such cranes were common until the 1960s. This one was built by Meiklejohn and Pursell, of Dalkeith. The building of the line to Carlisle gave the North British its own cross-border route, which it marketed as the Waverley Route. Through trains ran to London via the Midland Railway's Settle & Carlisle line. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/59/14
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