Dunkeld and Birnam Station Detail of gas lamp on up platform
SC 511494
Description Dunkeld and Birnam Station Detail of gas lamp on up platform
Date 1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 511494
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Dunkeld and Birnam Station, Perthshire This station was built as the terminus of the Perth and Dunkeld Railway, and was designed by Andrew Heiton, a Perth architect.. The 'Tudor' style was popular at the time. The building originally incorporated a train shed. This view shows one of the two gas lamps which lit the footbridge. Note the station name cast into the ironwork. The footbridge is of a standard Highland Railway pattern and probably dates from about 1890-1900. This was the last station in Scotland to be lit by gas, and was electrified in anticipation of de-manning. Gas lighting was common until the 1950s, occasionally with acetylene made from calcium carbide on site. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H77/42/9
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