View from W showing WNW front of down platform building

Description View from W showing WNW front of down platform building

Date 8/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 686259

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Kirklee Station, Glasgow This station was opened in 1896 by the Glasgow Central Railway, a line promoted by the Caledonian Railway to link existing lines in the east with the West End and Maryhill, and via the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway with the industries of the north bank of the River Clyde and the Vale of Leven. This shows the Kirklee Place frontage of the station from the south-west. It was designed by J J Burnet, a noted Glasgow architect. This building was on the Maryhill-bound platform and contained the booking office. It had been closed for many years, though the railway through it did not close it until 1964. After the closure of this line there was strong pressure to keep the route clear so that a railway could be reinstated at some future date. The buildings were demolished in about 1970, but it was not until the 1980s that houses were built on the site. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/25/21

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/686259

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap