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Build
Date 1874
Event ID 962758
Category Building History
Type Build
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962758
Wick Railway Station
(Institute Civil Engineers Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 0600)
All that remains of his 1874 Wick Station is the terminal building whose interior was refurbished in 1999. The original cast-iron name and date plaque can be seen below the trifoil under the small gable.
This station was also the terminus for a light railway which ran from Wick to Lybster from 1903–44.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.