View from SE looking up platform towards tunnel

Description View from SE looking up platform towards tunnel

Date 31/3/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 785678

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Greenock Central Station (West Station), Greenock, Inverclyde This shows the two through platforms, looking north-west to the entrance to a tunnel running under the centre of Greenock. There is a bay platform on the right. These were originally covered by an overall roof, but this was damaged in the Greenock Blitz of 1941, and replaced by this truncated structure. Most of this station was demolished in the 1990s, and a small new booking office block built just behind the entrance arcade. The latter was retained as a relic of the old station, and the screen walls at the south-east end of the station also survive. This station was opened in 1889 by the Caledonian Railway as part of their extension to Gourock, where they built a steamer pier to provide an integrated rail and steamer service to Clyde coastal resorts. The Greenock station replaced the original Glasgow & Greenock Railway terminus of 1841. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/23/25

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/785678

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap