View from NNE showing NE and NW fronts of goods shed

Description View from NNE showing NE and NW fronts of goods shed

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 713024

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Railway Station (North Berwick Station), No 10 Station Road, North Berwick, East Lothian The North Berwick branch from Drem was opened in 1850 by the North British Railway, and this little fishing village and grain-exporting port became a popular high-class residential area, golfing resort and day-trip destination. Accordingly the North British greatly extended the station probably in the 1890s. This view shows the station goods shed from the north, after the track had been lifted from the yard, probably in the mid-1950s. There had been a goods office on the gable on the left, as indicated by the concrete base and the mark on the gable. It appears to have been a late 19th century building. The branch was very much a 'basic railway' in 1969, served by diesel railcars, and faced an uncertain future. The buildings extant in 1969 were demolished and replaced by a much smaller structure. When the East Coast main line was electrified in 1991 the branch was too, and is now well re-established. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/56/1

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/713024

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