View of Princes Pier railway station, Greenock. Closed to passengers in 1959.

Description View of Princes Pier railway station, Greenock. Closed to passengers in 1959.

Date 1894

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

Catalogue Number SC 716995

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 12773/3

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.

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