View from SSE looking up platform 13

Description View from SSE looking up platform 13

Date 25/3/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 777539

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Joint Station, Aberdeen This shows the passage between the north-bound terminal platforms, built for Great North of Scotland Railway services, to the left, and a range of single-storeyed offices to the north of the booking office. These offices included waiting rooms and parcel offices. Note the elegant arched steel trusses. 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, though this elevation is little altered. 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 H35/71/17/36

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