View from NE showing NE front of station building and electric train

Description View from NE showing NE front of station building and electric train

Date 1964

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

Catalogue Number SC 796376

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Train at Cathcart Station, Glasgow This shows a morning departure from Cathcart to Glasgow Central, round the Inner Circle, in 1964. The train is one of the 'Blue Trains' which introduced electric services on the Glasgow south-side suburban routes in 1962, still in its original 'Caledonian Blue' livery. The station building is of a standard Cathcart District type, built largely of wood, with glazed awnings on all four sides. There is a complete example of this type at Queen's Park Station, and the Cathcart building survives in cut-down form. A variant of the type, on two levels, is at Maxwell Park Station. This section of railway line is part of the second section of the Cathcart District Railway, opened in 1894 from Cathcart to Pollokshields West, which completed the Cathcart Circle, the first section of which had opened in 1886 to a temporary terminus at Cathcart as Glasgow's first south-side suburban line. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT244

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