Scanned image of view from SE showing ESE front of down platform building
SC 739778
Description Scanned image of view from SE showing ESE front of down platform building
Date 11/8/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739778
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Railway Station, Prestwick, South Ayrshire This shows the main building of the station, on the south-bound platform. The English Arts and Crafts style was much favoured for Clyde coast stations at the time. This building housed booking office, waiting rooms and toilets and porters' rooms. This station survived the electrification of services from Glasgow to Ayr in the late 1970s, and is still in use. It is one of the best surviving examples of its type, and clearly evokes the leisured, railway using travelling public of 100 years ago. This station was opened permanently by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway in 1846, and rebuilt by the Glasgow & South Western Railway, probably in about 1900, largely to cope with commuting and golfing traffic, which that railway company was very anxious to encourage. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/43/3
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