View from NW showing NNW and WSW fronts of goods shed

Description View from NW showing NNW and WSW fronts of goods shed

Date 3/3/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 717822

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Waterloo (Quay) Station, Waterloo Quay, Aberdeen This station was opened in 1855 by the Great North of Scotland Railway, as the terminus of its services to Huntly, and eventually to much of north east Scotland. It remained the Aberdeen terminus for the company's passenger services until 1867, when a connection was made with the Caledonian Railway. This shows the large late 19th century goods shed behind the Waterloo Quay offices. As can be seen the arches for railway traffic have been blocked up, as general rail freight services had ended in the mid 1960s. In the foreground is the site of the passenger platforms. Though disused for general goods traffic by 1970 the line to Waterloo Quay from Kittybrewster was retained for North Sea Oil pipe traffic. This section of line was built in the early 1850s over the bed of the Aberdeenshire Canal, the first example in Scotland of the direct replacement of a canal by a railway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/4/16

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap