View from NW showing NNE front

Description View from NW showing NNE front

Date 23/7/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 685651

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content College Passenger Station, High Street, Glasgow This station, was opened in 1871 by the Glasgow & Coatbridge Railway, a subsidiary of the North British Railway, as the terminus of that line. It was built on part of the site of the Old College (University) of Glasgow, and for a time used part of its High Street building as its booking office. This shows the train shed from the north-west. It has malleable-iron roof trusses supported on the north side by cast iron columns, linked by arched cast iron girders. On the other side the trusses are carried on a solid wall. This station was supplanted as a passenger station in 1886 by a new station on the Glasgow City & District Railway, on a site immediately to the north, and served as a goods facility until the 1960s. It was demolished in about 1970. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/7/20

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/685651

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