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

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

Date 1894

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

Catalogue Number SC 716997

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 12773/4

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. It had a first-floor balcony with views across the pierside to the water, and was flanked by large Italianate stair-towers with tile-hung walls and pyramidal roofs that acted as imposing beacons for the paddle steamers drawing up to collect the train passengers at the quayside. In the late 19th century new rail networks encouraged leisure travel, and the Glasgow & South Western Railway Company's line from Glasgow allowed holidaymakers to travel directly to Greenock to embark onto the paddle steamers that would take them 'doon the water' to the popular seaside resorts of Helensburgh, Dunoon and Rothesay on the Firth of Clyde. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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