View from NW showing buildings and cobbled yard

Description View from NW showing buildings and cobbled yard

Date 1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 768638

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Parkhead North Station, Glasgow This shows the station from the west, looking up the inclined roadway from Duke Street. The large granite slabs on the left were provided to make a smooth path for horse-hauled, iron tyred vehicles. There are two coal merchants' offices on the right, and the main goods office beyond. This station was for many years the only one in Parkhead. The Caledonian Railway opened one on the southern edge of the suburb in the 1890s. After nationalisation in 1948 the North British station was renamed Parkhead North. The passenger station closed in the 1950s, and the goods in the 1970s. This goods station was built on the North British Railway's Glasgow to Coatbridge line, next to Parkhead passenger station. Like many stations of the kind it was designed for horse-hauled road vehicles serving a fairly restricted area, and mainly dealt with coal traffic. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/53/21

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