View from W showing NW and SW fronts of original office block with part of train shed in foreground

Description View from W showing NW and SW fronts of original office block with part of train shed in foreground

Date 23/7/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 679434

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Haymarket Railway Station, Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh This station was opened in 1842 by the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway, as their Edinburgh terminus. It had a cast-iron train shed, and a building on an upper level which housed the booking office and waiting rooms on the ground floor, and the offices and board room on the first floor. This shows the office building sitting above the train shed, with the stair linking the two on the left side of the offices. The construction of the train shed can be seen: cast iron arcades, on either side, supporting malleable and cast iron roof trusses with a sarked and slated roof covering. This train shed was dismantled in 1981 and re-erected at the Scottish Railway Preservation Society's Bo'ness depot, where it performs its original function. The original surface building is still in use as the booking office and foyer for the modernised station below. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/22/10

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/679434

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