Edinburgh, Haymarket Terrace, Haymarket Railway Station View of train shed

Description Edinburgh, Haymarket Terrace, Haymarket Railway Station View of train shed

Date 12/11/1966

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 587322

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Haymarket Station, Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh (Edinburgh City council area) This station was built as the Edinburgh terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and was designed by John Miller. It had a two-storey building at street level, and an iron-framed train shed at a lower level, bypassed in the later 1840s. This view shows the train shed from street level, with its cast iron arcaded north side. The wooden structures inside were offices for an east-bound platform. The chimney belonged to the Caledonian Distillery, a grain whisky distillery. The train shed was threatened with demolition in the mid 1970s, and was eventually carefully dismantled and re-erected as part of the Bo'ness station of the Scottish Railway Preservation Society's Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H66/108/1A

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/587322

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