View looking ESE showing level crossing with part of booking office on left and signal box on right

Description View looking ESE showing level crossing with part of booking office on left and signal box on right

Date 25/7/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 712771

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 level crossing over the Guardbridge to Leuchars road, at the east end of the station, with the signal box on the right and part of the original station building and platform on the left. On the other side of the road the line crosses the River Eden on a viaduct. 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 H35/69/48/17

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/712771

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap