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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 701869

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/701869

NS56SE 68 58458 61566

Sta [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1989.

Location formerly entered as NS 5845 6159.

Opened 01/03/1886 (Cathcart District Railway); electrified 29/05/1962.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Mount Florida Station, built c. 1886 for the Cathcart District Rly. An island-platform station in a deep cutting, with access at both ends by footbridge. The wooden platform building is similar to that at Queens Park (NS56SE 940).

J R Hume 1974.

This intermediate station on the Cathcart Circle (suburban) line of the former Caledonian Rly was opened (by the Cathcart District Rly) on 1 March 1886. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic; the line has been electrified.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 February 2006.

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