Ayr, 8-12 North Harbour Street, Old Railway Station View from SSW showing SW front of main station building and SW front of lodge with part of bridge on left

Description Ayr, 8-12 North Harbour Street, Old Railway Station View from SSW showing SW front of main station building and SW front of lodge with part of bridge on left

Date 12/9/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 591490

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Old railway station, North Harbour Street, Ayr (South Ayrshire council area) This station was the Ayr terminus of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway, and remained the town's station until 1856, after which it became a goods station. A hole was cut in the building in 1899, for the harbour branch railway. This view shows the station from the south east, with the harbour branch bridge to the left. Behind the lodge to the right of the main building are sheds which may have been the original workshops of the railway. The station was described soon after it was built as being in the Elizabethan style. It originally had a railing down the middle of the platform to separate first-class passengers from the others! The building was demolished in the late 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H66/70/2A

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/591490

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