Building record MAB4481 - BLACKSBOAT STATION

Blacksboat Railway Station, opened by Strathspey Railway (NJ13NE0060) in 1863 and closed to passenger traffic in 1965.

Blacksboat Railway Station, opened by Strathspey Railway (NJ13NE0060) in 1863 and closed to passenger traffic in 1965. It is a typical two-platform through station with platform building and goods shed. The platform building is a single-storey, seven-bay, rectangul6ar-plan former railway station, constructed from snecked rubble with roughly dressed quoins. The principle South elevation is symmetrical. There is a broad tripartite centre bay, with a door and flanking blocked windows divided by fluted pilasters, with stylised scroll capitals giving way to a frieze inscribed with 'BLACKSBOAT'. There are three narrow windows to each flanking bay. The West gabled elevation has a boarded timber door, and a reinforced glass fanlight to left. The rear North elevation has a boarded timber door at the centre, with bipartite window to the right and a further single window beyond. The boundary wall is abutting at the outer right. The roof is constructed from graded grey slates, with a stone ridge, and there are coped ashlar ridge stacks and ashlar-coped skews, with block skewputts. Inside, all fittings have been removed. The square-plan goods shed is constructed from horizontally-clad timber on a rubble and coped ashlar base, and it has a piended slate roof. There are large sliding doors to the North, West and East elevations, with the East elevation also having a further window opening. The South elevation has two horizontal windows close to the eaves. There is a flat-coped rubble platform wall to the South of the station building, and rubble boundary walls. There is a small cast-iron girder bridge crossing the railway to the North.

Period Notes
Opened 1863, closed in 1965. Listed designation given on 07/05/2004.

Hume, JR, 1977, Industrial Archaeology of Scotland, 234 (Bibliographic reference). SAB730.

Record last edited

Aug 8 2016 2:39PM