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View looking ESE from staff club showing Tay Road Bridge in distance with part of Dundee in foreground including railway station

SC 645918

Description View looking ESE from staff club showing Tay Road Bridge in distance with part of Dundee in foreground including railway station

Date 1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 645918

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content West Station, Dundee This station was built in 1888-9 by the Caledonian Railway as the terminus of its services from Edinburgh and Glasgow via Perth. It was designed by James Barr of Perth and was intended to outshine the North British Railway's nearby Tay Bridge Station. This shows the ridge and furrow roof of the station in the middle distance, with the Tay Road Bridge behind. The clock tower on the front of the station can also just be seen. The station was much grander than the North British Railway's one. The station was a victim of the Beeching cuts of the mid-1960s. When the ex-Caledonian line to Aberdeen via Forfar was abandoned in 1967 and all trains to Aberdeen were diverted via Dundee, this station was closed, and was quickly demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/5/14

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/645918

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 147) Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

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