Inverness, Lochgorm Railway Works Distant view from S showing Lochgorm Railway Works and Inverness Goods Station

Description Inverness, Lochgorm Railway Works Distant view from S showing Lochgorm Railway Works and Inverness Goods Station

Date c. 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 621379

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Inverness Station and Lochgorm Works, Inverness, Highland This railway station and works were opened in 1855 by the Inverness & Nairn Railway, and have since been rebuilt and extended on several occasions. Parts of the original buildings survive, including much of the 19th-century workshop buildings. This view looking over the east end of the town shows the two-bayed goods shed on the left, with the lower sandstone buildings of the railway workshops behind and to the right. Note the large number of goods wagons and vans in the yard -Inverness was the railhead for a large part of the Highlands. Rail freight on any scale ended in the early 1990s, but the type of wagon-load traffic seen here died in the late 1960s. The site of the goods yard has since been redeveloped as a shopping centre. The workshops are still in use, maintaining diesel railcars. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H/67

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