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Wick Station (rear), Caithness.
This station was built by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway. It is unusual for a station of its character in Scotland in having a train shed, a concession to the climate. This view shows the train shed from the departure end. The blanked-off ventilators on the roof-ridge were designed to extract the smoke of steam locomotives in the station. The other terminus of this railway, Thurso, has a very similar building. The building constructed at Strome Ferry, originally the terminus of the Dingwall and Skye railway, was similar too. This was converted to a through platform when the line was extended to Kyle. The overall roof burned down in the 1930s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN. '
