Interior View from ESE showing booking hall and offices
SC 777532
Description Interior View from ESE showing booking hall and offices
Date 25/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 777532
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Joint Station, Aberdeen This shows the very large booking office at the front of the station. The pattern of a wooden office with small ticket-issuing points was characteristic of railway stations throughout Britain until the 1960s, and this was one of the finest of its kind. This was the last major station rebuilding project in Scotland until the 1960s. By 1971, as a result of the Beeching cuts of the mid-1960s, the station was much too large for the traffic it handled. It was considerably rationalised in the 1970s, when this booking hall lost its wooden office. The first station on this site was opened jointly by the Caledonian, North British and Great North of Scotland Railways in 1867, when the last-named opened a line from Kittybrewster to meet the Caledonian Railway at Guild Street. The joint station was rebuilt in 1913-20 by the Caledonian Railway and Great North of Scotland Railway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/17/39
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