Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 563704
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/563704
Railway Terrace, variegated rubble and brick group of railway workers' cottages, presumably contemporary with station. Station, engineer Murdoch Paterson, 1897 Pierhead terminus building with canopies supported on fluted cast-iron columns with decorative capitals and brackets. The island platforms are approached by a long ramped roadway, and the rail lines flanked by massive quays.
[Costing £200,000, and involving incredible explosions and excavations along the rocky northern shoreline of Lochalsh, the ten and a half mile rail extension to Kyle was, in proportion to its length, the most expensive stretch of railway in the British Isles.]
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
