Archaeology Notes

Event ID 753483

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT53SW 68.01 54683 33912

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(Location cited as NT 547 339). Opened 1849 by the North British Rly. A very remarkable two-platform through station with the main offices on the down side. These are contained in a 2-storey building in Flemish style with the entrance from the street at ground-floor level and from the platform at first floor level. The remarkable features are the platform awnings, which are of wooden construction and slope up at an angle of about 30 degrees towards the track. They are supported on cast-iron columns, with lotus capitals, and there are curved wooden brackets to take the weight of the overhang. There is a cast-iron-framed wooden goods shed with a common wall with the down-platform awning. On the up platform is a cast-iron urinal in a remarkably good state of preservation.

J R Hume 1976.

This intermediate station on the Edinburgh-Carlisle (main) line ('the 'Waverley route') of the North British Rly. was opened on 20 February 1849 and closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as a whole) on 6 January 1969.

R V J Butt 1995.

The railway station is situated at the W end of Palma Place, off Dingleton Road (Brae). Th down platform building, awning and good shed were removed when the A6091 was widened. The main up-platform buildings and awning survive in use as a restaurant and shops.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE), August 2006