View from S showing SSW front, SSE front and part of WSW front of booking office

Description View from S showing SSW front, SSE front and part of WSW front of booking office

Date 25/7/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 712767

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Guardbridge Station, Fife This station was opened in 1852 by the St Andrews Railway, a 'cheap railway' promoted soon after the collapse of the Railway Mania had ended confidence in railway investment. The station was enlarged by the North British Railway, probably in the 1880s or 1890s. This shows what was probably the original station building, situated where the railway crossed the Guardbridge to Leuchars road. It looks as though it was adapted from an existing cottage, as the angled gable suggests. This would be in keeping with the concept of the 'cheap railway'. The original railway was designed by Thomas Bouch, later engineer for the first, ill-fated Tay Bridge. It became part of a through route from Thornton Junction to Leuchars in 1887, but most of this was closed in 1965. The St Andrews branch closed in 1969, and the station was demolished soon after. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/48/13

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