Archaeology Notes

Event ID 771498

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND15NE 10 1550 5929

For railway cottages at ND 1558 5921, see ND15NE 12.

(Location cited as ND 154 593). Georgemas Junction Station, opened 1874 by the Sutherland and Caithness Rly. A two-platform through station, with a 2-storey, 3-bay platform building incorporating a dwelling house. There are a lattice-girder footbridge by Oliver and Arrol, Edinburgh, 1881, two typical Highland Rly signal boxes, and the stone base of a water tower. Nearby are a snow blower, similar to that at Scotscalder, and a range of three railwaymen's cottages (ND15NE 12).

J R Hume 1977.

This, the most northerly railway junction in the British Isles, is situated at the division of the Wick and Thurso terminal lines of the 'Far North' line of the (former) Highland Rly. It was opened (by the Sutherland and Caithness Rly.) on 28 July 1874, and remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 November 2000.

R V J Butt 1995.