View from SE showing SSE and ENE fronts of platform shelter

Description View from SE showing SSE and ENE fronts of platform shelter

Date 31/10/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 664418

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Possil Station, Balmore Road, Glasgow This station was opened in 1897 by the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway as part of a northern loop line from Balornock to Maryhill intended for mineral traffic and for a suburban passenger service which never prospered owing to the electrification of the Glasgow tramways in 1901-2. This shows a platform shelter provided on the main west-bound platform, which handled traffic into Glasgow. The elegance of the timber structure is typical of buildings on lines built in association with the Caledonian Railway in the 1890s. This station closed to passengers in 1908, but was reopened in 1934, closing again in 1964. The street front building and the former goods shed were still standing in 2002, though in poor condition. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/65/26/25

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/664418

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap