View from SSE showing Inverness-bound locomotive

Description View from SSE showing Inverness-bound locomotive

Date 25/3/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 777543

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Joint Station, Aberdeen This shows the north-bound bay platforms on the east side of the station, looking south-east. The diesel multiple-unit train in the bay platform is on an Aberdeen-Inverness service. Note the porter's barrow waiting for parcels, at the time still a characteristic feature of railway stations. 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, and the bay platforms at the north end have been eliminated. 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 H35/71/17/33

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/777543

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap