Inverness, Millburn, Roundhouse, Motive Power Depot
Engine Shed (19th Century) - (20th Century), Livestock Market (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Inverness, Millburn, Roundhouse, Motive Power Depot
Classification Engine Shed (19th Century) - (20th Century), Livestock Market (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Inverness Roundhouse; Inverness Auction Mart; Inverness Station, Engine Shed
Canmore ID 13356
Site Number NH64NE 139
NGR NH 6710 4560
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13356
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH64NE 139 6710 4560
Not to be confused with Lochgorm Railway Works (NH 6694 4568), for which see NH64NE 167.
NH 667 455 An evaluation was undertaken to the S and E of Inverness Railway Station revealing several features relating to the Inverness locomotive depot of the Highland Railway. The site was most recently used for car parking after the Inverness auction mart abandoned the site in the late 1980s.
The objectives of the archaeological evaluation were to uncover and record the nature, extent and preservation of any components of the former locomotive works, and to assess whether there was any archaeological evidence of earlier activity.
The evaluation area comprised c 3.5ha, and an area of c 1750m2 was examined by the excavation of eleven trenches. Eight trenches contained various components of rail track, the roundhouse engine shed and turning pit, water tower and coaling stage associated with the locomotive depot. Finds include cast-iron building material, copper-alloy and rusted iron objects related to the railway, and occasional tools. Other modern artefacts and related industrial waste were also found.
A report will be lodged with Highland SMR and the NMRS.
Sponsor: Halliday Fraser Munro for Safeway plc.
J Hamilton 1999
British Railways Records Office, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh
Railway Magazine Sept. 1951 - article & photograph
NH64NE 139 6710 4560
It was noted on the date of visit that the engine shed was used until the summer of 1961 and was demolished thereafter. A large number of machine tools relating to the service and repair of loocomotives were dumped in the turntable pit and backfilled with rubble from the demolished building. The site is now occupied by a cattle market.
Information gathered by RCAHMS (Graham J Douglas) from Mr Adam Sutherland, a former train driver, on 11 April 1985.
