Lybster Station, Platform Building Exterior view of platform side, looking NE
SC 435429
Description Lybster Station, Platform Building Exterior view of platform side, looking NE
Date 1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 435429
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lybster Station, Caithness This was built as the terminus of the Wick and Lybster Light Railway, the most northerly light railway in Britain, which was built to serve fishing villages along the Caithness coast during the herring boom. This view shows the remains of the passenger station, with its wooden building and platform edge, and the agent's house beyond. The area under the platform canopy has been covered in, but otherwise the station building is intact. This line was closed in 1944, by which time the fishing industry in the area was almost extinct. The stations on the line have survived well. Only Lybster had a separate goods shed. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/139/9
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