View from SSW showing SSW front
SC 699405
Description View from SSW showing SSW front
Date 1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 699405
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Botanic Gardens Station, No 1057 Great Western Road, Glasgow This station was opened in 1896 by the Glasgow Central Railway, which was promoted by the Caledonian Railway to link its London Road branch with Maryhill, and via the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway with the north bank of the Clyde, the Vale of Leven & Loch Lomond. This shows the station from the south-west, Great Western Road, side. This emphasises the gilded onion domes, the most distinctive feature of the station.. It was designed by James Miller, architect as a showpiece for a high-profile location. The surface building seen here was linked to the platforms, in deep cutting, by covered stairways. The station closed in 1939, the line through it in 1964, and it was destroyed by fire in 1970. The station suffered from 1901 from competition from a frequent service of electric trams. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/25/29
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