View of end block of station showing flanking towers and curved entrance arch

Description View of end block of station showing flanking towers and curved entrance arch

Date 1894

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number BL 12773/6

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies B 64251, SC 717000

Scope and Content 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. This view shows part of one of the two curved passenger walkways which swept down to the pierside. A verandah with a steeply pitched roof ran along its inner side, and the building terminated in a large arched doorway, flanked by two small decorative, tile-hung Italianate towers with pyramidal roofs. The station was designed in a grand style in order to cope with the large volume of holidaymakers arriving from Glasgow to travel 'doon the water' at the height of the summer season. The walkway had curving walls for the circulation of passengers alighting from trains and proceeding to board the paddle steamers at the quayside for the next stage of their journey to the seaside resorts of he Firth of Clyde. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 19

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