View from NNE showing locomative with station buildings in background

Description View from NNE showing locomative with station buildings in background

Date 8/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 766720

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Rannoch Station, Perth & Kinross This shows the north end of the station, with an excursion train from Falkirk to Mallaig, run by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society. In the background are the signal box and main station building. Behind the mound on the left is a low-relief sculpture of J H Renton, backer of the line's contractors. The West Highland Railway, opened in 1894, and its extension to Mallaig are still in operation, but the signalling is now radio controlled. This signal box has had its equipment removed and has become the platform shelter, though the station building is still intact. This station is on the West Highland Railway, which runs from Craigendoran to Fort William. It runs through difficult terrain, and is single-track, with passing places. Most of the stations have an island platform in the middle of the passing loop, and timber station buildings in Swiss Chalet style, including Rannoch. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/49/42

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/766720

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap