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View from NW showing WNW and NNE fronts of signal box
SC 712770
Description View from NW showing WNW and NNE fronts of signal box
Date 25/7/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 712770
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 the signal box, which controlled a level crossing on the Guardbridge to Leuchars road, entry to the goods yard, and a passing loop. The box is of a standard North British Railway type. To the left is a platform used to exchange the tokens which gave permission to enter single-line sections. 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 and this box were demolished soon after. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/48/16
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