Perth Railway Station
This is an architecturally interesting station with a complex layout.
Comparing Fig 2 with Figs 3 & 4, we see similar arrangements of ramps and footbridges and stone buildings, but in one case the buildings are made of limestone, in the other case limestone, and the paint scheme is either blue and white or brown and cream.
The iron balustrades of the impressive ramps were cast by McDowall Steven and Co.
Station designed by William Tite and opened (as Perth General) in 1848. It was jointly owned by the Scottish Central Railway (for which it was the terminus of the main line from Greenhill Junction near Glasgow), Scottish Midland Junction Railway, Edinburgh and Northern Railway, and the Perth and Dunkeld Railway. These railways were ultimately owned by the Caledonian, North British, and Highland Railways.[1]
Major enlargement was undertaken in 1885-7.
1889 Description and engravings of the station [2]
See here for an enthusiastic description of the station in the inter-war years, when the station was jointly owned by the LMS and LNER. An extract: 'Edinburgh has the largest Scottish station - Waverley. Glasgow has several large stations; but Perth is the nearest Scottish parallel to York or Crewe. With its one big station, in the middle of Scotland, Perth might be compared to a hand grasping a bunch of reins, the reins being the converging main lines of central Scotland.'
Note: There was a small station, Perth Princes Street, on the Perth-Dundee (main) line of the former Caledonian Railway, a short distance west of the Tay Railway Viaduct, Perth. It closed in 1966. The line itself remains in use.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Britain's Gistoric Railway Buildings' by Gordon Biddle, Oxford University Press, 2003
- ↑ Engineering 1889/08/16