View from ESE showing ESE front and glazed awning of main building

Description View from ESE showing ESE front and glazed awning of main building

Date 8/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 767340

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Station, Glenfinnan, Highland This shows the main station building on the west-bound platform. This is a simplified version of the stations on the original West Highland Railway, but with the walls built of concrete. The platform faces are also of concrete construction. The train is a Falkirk-Mallaig excursion. The West Highland Extension Railway was built to link with ferry services to the Western Isles, and to encourage the development of the fishing industry. It was a difficult line to build, and runs through some of the finest scenery in the Western Highlands. It now carries a heavy tourist traffic in summer. This station is on the West Highland Extension Railway, which runs from Banavie to Mallaig, and which was opened in 1901. The engineers for the line were Simpson & Wilson, and the contractors Robert McAlpine & Sons. Concrete was extensively employed, as the local stone was unworkable. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/50/24

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/767340

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap