What Railway opened 183 years ago?
the Ffestiniog Railway
183 years ago, in a remote corner of North Wales, the Ffestiniog Railway opened for business. The railway was initially used to carry slate from the quarries in Blaenau Ffestiniog to the sea at Porthmadog, where it would be loaded on to ships which sailed all over the world.
When did Buchanan Street station close?
November 6, 1966
A LONG chapter in Glasgow’s transport history came to a quiet end, not long before midnight on Sunday, November 6, 1966. The departure of the 11.25pm train to Inverness out of the old Caledonian Railway’s Buchanan Street station marked the close of the station’s 117 years of service.
Where is the Argyle Street station in Glasgow?
Argyle Street railway station is a station in the City Centre of Glasgow, Scotland, on the Argyle Line, which connects the North Clyde lines at Partick with Rutherglen in the south-east of the city. The station is located below the thoroughfare whose name it bears.
When did the GCR take over Argyle Street station?
By the time it was opened between 1894 and 1897, the GCR had been taken over by the Caledonian Railway. Although there were three stations under Argyle Street – Anderston, Glasgow Central and Glasgow Cross, there was no station on the site of the current station.
What kind of building is Argyle Street railway substation?
The substation is a rendered brick, four-storey building constructed in the Inter-War Stripped Classical style and featuring steel windows with moulded and rendered sills and banded pilasters extending from ground level to a deep moulded cornice and parapet.
Why is there no lift at Argyle Street?
This station does not have any disabled access due to the narrowness of the island platform; this is the source of many complaints. Installation of lift access would require platform widening, which would in turn require widening of the tunnel, requiring massive alteration to the buildings adjacent.