Old travel Blog photograph of a steam engine and the Stationmaster wearing a Top Hat in Queen Street railway station in Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish railway station was built by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and opened on 18 February 1842. The adjacent Buchanan Street station of the rival Caledonian Railway closed on 7 November 1966 as a result of the Beeching axe and its services to Stirling, Perth, Perthshire, Inverness, Dundee and Aberdeen transferred to Queen Street. From the late Victorian era onwards, station masters became prominent figures in local communities. Invariably they would be provided with a substantial house and, in rural communities particularly, would have significant social standing. The uniforms worn by station masters, whilst varying widely between different railway companies, often incorporated gold braid embroidery, and peaked caps with gold banding, giving the office holder a high profile in the community.
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