Building record MHG9591 - Waiting Room, Dunrobin Castle Railway Station
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NC 8496 0127 (14m by 7m) |
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| Map sheet | NC80SW |
| Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
| Old County | SUTHERLAND |
| Civil Parish | GOLSPIE |
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NC80SW 27 8496 0127
For Dunrobin Castle (NC 8505 0082), see NC80SE 1.00.
Duke of Sutherland's Railway Station waiting room listed.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
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1870, reconstructed 1902. Private station on the Duke of Sutherland's Railway.
The Industrial Archaeology of Sutherland (A Scottish Highland Economy 1700-1900, p. 75-76) - Sinclair B Calder, 1974
J Aitken : 19/2/2004
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(Location cited as NC 850 013). Dunrobin Station, built 1902 for the Duke of Sutherland, architect L Bisset. A neat mock-timber-framed building with a three-gabled awning.
J R Hume 1977.
Dunrobin Castle Railway Station, designed by L Bisset in 1902 as the Duke of Sutherland's private halt.
J Gifford 1992.
This intermediate station on the Inverness-Wick and Thurso ('Far North') line of the (former) Highland Rly. was opened in 1870 as the private station of the Duke of Sutherland and closed as such in 1871. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 29 January 1965 reopening during 1985.
R V J Butt 1995.
Sources/Archives (9)
- --- SHG1988 Text/Publication/Volume: Bonavia, M R. 1987. Historic railway sites in Britain. 192-3.
- --- SHG2009 Text/Publication/Volume: Butt, R V J. 1995. The directory of railway stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. 86.
- --- SHG2247 Text/Publication/Monograph: Gifford, J. 1992. Highland and Islands. The Buildings of Scotland. Paper (Original). 577.
- --- SHG2332 Text/Publication/Volume: Hume, J R. 1977. The industrial archaeology of Scotland 2: The Highlands and Islands. Paper (Original). 317.
- --- SHG24430 Image/Photograph(s): Highland Council Archaeology Unit. HCAU Slide Collection Sheet 17. Colour slide. . Digital (scanned). 334.
- --- SHG2854 Text/Publication/Volume: Tatlow, P. 1985. Highland railway miscellany: a pictorial record of the company's activities in the public eye and behind the scenes. pl. 110.
- --- SHG2902 Text/Publication/Volume: Vallance, H A. 1985. The Highland railway. 4th, extd. 36.
- --- SHG364 Text/Publication/Volume: Sinclair B Calder. 1974. The Industrial Archaeology of Sutherland (A Scottish Highland Economy 1700-1900).
- --- SHG7617 Image/Photograph(s): Dunrobin Halt. Digital Image. .
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Record last edited
Jan 21 2010 11:03AM
