View from WSW showing locomotive no 70077 on Glasgow - Carlisle train with station booking office spanning track in background

Description View from WSW showing locomotive no 70077 on Glasgow - Carlisle train with station booking office spanning track in background

Date 1/6/1964

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

Catalogue Number SC 796394

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Strathbungo Station, Glasgow, looking east This view looking east was taken on 1 June 1964 from a footbridge over the south-western end of the station. It shows the 5.30pm train from St Enoch Station to Carlisle, headed by a British Railways standard 'Britannia'-class 4-6-2 locomotive. The former station booking office, on a bridge, is in the distance. Strathbungo Station was one of several built to develop suburban traffic on the inner end of the joint line. It served both the suburb of the same name, to the south-east, and the growing suburb of Pollokshields, to the north-west. It closed in 1962, when the line through the nearby Pollokshields West Station was electrified. Strathbungo Station is on the Glasgow, Barrhead & Neilston Direct Railway, opened in 1848, though the station itself was not opened until 1877 by the Glasgow, Barrhead & Kilmarnock Joint Railway, joint between the Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT262

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