Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Wemyss Bay, a village on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in Inverclyde in the west central Lowlands. It is in the traditional county of Renfrewshire. Wemyss Bay is the port for ferries to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute. Passengers from the island can connect to Glasgow by train, which terminate in the village at the Wemyss Bay railway station, noted for its architectural qualities and regarded as one of Scotland's finest railway buildings. The name Wemyss is derived from the Scottish Gaelic uaimh which means cave. It is believed to be taken from the caves of the Firth of Forth where the Clan Wemyss made their home. The chiefs are one of the few noble families who are descended from the Celtic nobility through the Clan MacDuff Earls of Fife. The name Wemyss Bay may be associated with Bob Wemyss, who was the owner of a hut on the shore in the 19th century. Work began in late 1862 on the single track Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway branching from the main Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway at Port Glasgow and taking an inland route across to the coast at Inverkip before descending to Wemyss Bay. This was to connect to Clyde steamer services for Rothesay, Largs and Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, allowing a combined train and steamer journey time of an hour and a half, compared with a typical time of three hours by steamer from Glasgow. The station was designed by James Miller in 1903 for the Caledonian Railway.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs
No comments:
Post a Comment