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 716998

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 12773/5

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. The central part of the station buildings was occupied by the booking office (left) with a first-floor balcony overlooking the water, and flanked by imposing square Italianate stair-towers with tile-hung walls and pyramidal roofs. Curved passenger walkways with verandahs swept out on either side to terminate in arched doorways flanked by smaller decorative towers. The Glasgow & South Western Railway Company's railway line to Greenock terminated just behind the booking office, and passengers arrived at the pierside by the two curved, inclined walkways. Miller's design of curving walls for the circulation of passengers was to reappear in later stations constructed for rival railway companies at Wemyss Bay, Stirling and Central Station, Glasgow. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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