View showing horse lorry
SC 712768
Description View showing horse lorry
Date 25/7/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 712768
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 view shows part of the loading bank in the goods station, with the circular base for a post crane on the right. These may have been built in 1852, after the opening of the line, when improvements were made. The horse lorry was probably used for the delivery of goods from the station. 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 H35/69/48/14
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