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Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject: The Railway Station in Brora.

There are four entries in the RCAHMS Canmore database for the Railway Station in Brora. Some entries are more detailed than others.

Brora Station

Type of Site: Railway Station
NMRS Number: NC90SW 11.00
Map reference: NC 9064 0412
Parish: Clyne
Council: Highland
Former District: Sutherland
Former Region: Highland

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Archaeology Notes

NC90SW 11.00 90644 04121

NC90SW 11.01 NC 90641 04178 Goods shed
NC90SW 11.02 NC 9067 0409 Signal box
NC90SW 11.03 NC 90656 04155 Footbridge

(Location cited as NC 907 041). Brora Station, built 1895 for the Highland Rly. A two-platform through station, with the main building on the down platform. This is a single-storey structure on a U plan, with an awning filling the U. On the up platform is a small wooden shelter. A lattice-girder footbridge links the platforms. The goods shed (NC90SW 11.01) is of the normal wooden platform.

J R Hume 1977.

This intermediate station on the Inverness - Georgemas Junction - Wick and Thurso ('Far North') line of the former Highland Rly. It remains in regular passenger use.

R V J Butt 1995.

Architecture Notes

NC90SW 11.00 9064 0413

This railway station was built in 1895 for the Highland Railway and consists of a two-platformed through station, with main building on down platform. This comprises a single-storeyed grey sandstone 'U'-plan building with a slate roof, an awning filling the 'U'-shaped area. There is also a wooden goods shed just to the NW of the station (NC90SW 11.01) and a lattice-girder steel footbridge on the N side of the station building.
Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), 23 June 1997.
JR Hume, 1977.

Also: NC90SW 11.01 9064 0417 Brora Station, Goods Shed

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References

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,
Sparkford, nr Yeovil, 46

Gifford, J (1992 )
Highland and Islands,
The buildings of Scotland series, London, 560

Hume, J R (1977 a)
The industrial archaeology of Scotland,
2, the Highlands and Islands, London, 311-12

Vallance, H A (1985 )
The Highland railway,
The history of the railways of the Scottish Highlands, 2. Extended edition., {s.l.}; Newton Abbot, 36, 4th

Brora Station, Goods Shed

Type of Site: Goods Shed
NMRS Number: NC90SW 11.01
Map reference: NC 9064 0417
Parish: Clyne
Council: Highland
Former District: Sutherland
Former Region: Highland

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Archaeology Notes
NC90SW 11.01 90641 04178

Architecture Notes
NC90SW 11.01 90641 04178

This wooden goods shed with its corrugated iron roof is situated just to the NW of Brora station building.
Information from RCAHMS (MKO), 23 June 1997.

Brora Station, Signal Box

Type of Site: Signal Box
NMRS Number: NC90SW 11.02
Map reference: NC 9066 0408
Parish: Clyne
Council: Highland
Former District: Sutherland
Former Region: Highland

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Archaeology Notes
NC90SW 11.02 90666 04083

Architecture Notes
NC90SW 90666 04083

A small wooden-plank hut built upon a single-storey brick foundation level. Acesis provided by an oversailing wooden staircase. Of a type common in the region.
Information from RCAHMS (SC), 27 July 1999

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References
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Brora Station, Footbridge

Type of Site: Footbridge
NMRS Number: NC90SW 11.03
Map reference: NC 9065 0415
Parish: Clyne
Council: Highland
Former District: Sutherland
Former Region: Highland

References

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