View of station and pier
BL 12773/3
Description View of station and pier
Date 1894
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 12773/3
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Booking Office, Princes Pier Railway Station, Greenock, Inverclyde (now demolished and the site incorporated within the Clydeport Container Terminal) Princes Pier Railway Station, an impressive railway terminus overlooking the Firth of Clyde, was designed by the Glasgow architect, James Miller, and built in 1893 for the Glasgow & South Western Railway Company. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the building in 1894. The booking office occupied the central part of the terminus, and had a first-floor balcony with views over the water. It was flanked by two large Italianate towers with tile-hung walls, bold black timbering on the ground floor, and pyramidal roofs that acted as beacons for the steamers drawing up at the quayside. The Glasgow & South Western Railway Company's railway line to Greenock terminated just behind the booking office, and passengers descended by two curved, inclined walkways to the pierside in order to embark on the paddle steamers which would take them on the next stage of their journey 'doon the water' to the holiday resorts of the Firth of Clyde. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 19
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