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Thurso, Station Square, Railway Station

Railway Station (19th Century) (1874)

Site Name Thurso, Station Square, Railway Station

Classification Railway Station (19th Century) (1874)

Alternative Name(s) Princes Street; Thurso Station

Canmore ID 8483

Site Number ND16NW 60

NGR ND 11293 67921

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Thurso
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND16NW 60.00 11293 67921

Location formerly cited as ND 11287 67912.

ND16NW 60.01 ND 11292 67864 Goods Shed

ND16NW 60.02 ND 11268 67758 Engine Shed

For former goods shed see ND16NW 60.01 and engine shed see ND16NW 60.02

For similar railway terminus at Wick (ND 36046 50888), see ND35SE 73.00.

Thurso Station (Terminus) [NAT]

OS 1:2500 map, 1967.

Sta [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1985.

Thurso Station (Terminus) [NAT]

OS (GIS) AIB, April 2006.

Highland Railway, Far North line.

(Undated) information in NMRS).

(Location cited as ND 113 678). Thurso Station, built 1874 for the Sutherland and Caithness Rly). A single-platform terminal station with a wooden overall roof, almost identical to that at Wick (ND35SE 73). In the yard is a wooden goods shed of standard Highland Rly pattern, and nearby are many animal pens.

J R Hume 1977.

Railway station, Station Square, 1872-4, by Murdoch Paterson, virtually identical to his contemporary station at Wick (ND35SE 73).

J Gifford 1992.

Princes Street terminates with the gabled railway station, 1874, Murdoch Paterson. Also standard Highland Rly wooden goods shed; the former engine shed now serves as a carpet shop near the extreme end of Janet St. In 1984, the station reception area was sympathetically refurbished by Lyndall Leet with considerable use of local flagstone.

E Beaton 1996.

This station is the terminus of the Georgemas Junction - Thurso portion 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), 11 June 1998.

R V J Butt 1995.

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