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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 685720
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/685720
NO20SE 36.00 29938 01510
Markinch Station [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2010.
NO20SE 36.01 NO 29915 01483 Railway Goods shed
Copied from Architecture Cataloque Slip:
Engineer: Thomas Grainger 1846-47
Station opened 20.9.1847
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as NO 299 014). Markinch Station, opened 1847 by the Edinburgh & Northern Railway, architect David Bell. A two-platform through station, with the main offices on the down side, in a 1- and 2-storey building above and behind the platform. The up-platform shelter is also wooden. The platforms are linked by a footbridge which is incorporated in a road overbridge.
J R Hume 1976.
