Archaeology Notes

Event ID 772167

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/772167

NS57SW 74 54340 71775

Location formerly entered as NS 5433 7178.

Sta [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1985.

NMRS REFERENCE

Footbridge made by P. and W. Maclellan Ltd, Clutha Works, Glasgow, 1958.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NS 543 717). Bearsden Station, opened 1863 by the North British Rly. A two-platform through station with a two-storey, four-bay rubble office and station-house block on the up platform, with a single-storey wing and a bracketted awning with glazed side screens. The down-platform building is a small brick structure, with the roof overhanging on three sides and glazed side screens.

J R Hume 1976.

This intermediate station on the Milngavie branch of the former North British Rly was opened (by the Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Rly) on 21 April 1863. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic as part of the (electriufied) Glasgow suburban system.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 October 1997.

R V J Butt 1995.