View from WNW showing NW and SW fronts of main station building with part of signal box in background

Description View from WNW showing NW and SW fronts of main station building with part of signal box in background

Date 2/9/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 664366

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Guardbridge Station, Fife This station was opened in 1852 by the St Andrews Railway to serve the distilling village of Guardbridge. It was the only intermediate station on the line. The St Andrews Railway was the first of the 'cheap railways' built after the collapse of the Railway Mania of the late 1840s. This shows the station building on the only platform. This is a typical North British Railway structure, built of standardised wooden components, perhaps when the Fife Coast loop was completed in 1887, to replace the original station building. The Fife Coast loop was built in stages, with the St Andrews Railway the first section, and the line from Anstruther to St Andrews the last to be completed. Services from Thornton Junction to St Andrews ended in 1965, when this station also closed. The St Andrews branch service was withdrawn in 1969. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/24/21

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/664366

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