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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 660837
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/660837
NH55NE 23.00 55304 58614
Dingwall Station [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, May 2009.
NH55NE 23.01 NH 55257 58324 South Signal box
NH55NE 23.02 NH 5540 5893 Small frame box
NH55NE 23.03 NH 55325 58585 Shelter
NH55NE 23.04 NH 55312 58559 Footbridge
NH55NE 23.05 NH 55310 58651 Building / Public House
NH55NE 23.06 NH 55328 58675 Staff Shelter
NH55NE 23.07 NH c. 552 582 Store
NH55NE 23.08 NH 55290 58660 Station House
NH55NE 23.09 NH 55373 58850 North Signal Box
(Location cited as NH 553 586). Dingwall Station, built 1886 for the Highland Rly. A 3-platform through station with an elaborate single-storey stone building on the down platform, with end bays projecting at the rear. The seven-bay glazed platform awning is supported on ornamental cast-iron columns. The up-platform building is a long single-storey wooden structure. The platforms are linked by a lattice-girder foot-bridge. In the goods yard is a handsome cast-iron post crane with a wooden jib.
J R Hume 1977.
This intermediate station on the Inverness-Wick and Thurso ('Far North') line of the former Highland Rly was opened on 11 June 1862 by the Inverness and Ross-shire Rly. [not in 1886 by the Highland Rly, as stated by Hume]. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 February 2000.
R V J Butt 1995.
