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November 2006.
Go to Fullscreen Panorama tour
Go to Fullscreen Panorama tour
Wemyss Bay Station and Pier
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November 2006. Go to Fullscreen Panorama tour |
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Wemyss Bay Station and Pier date back to a time when holidays were taken locally. This one-time transport hub on the Firth of Clyde made it possible for the populations of Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock to travel south by train, then catch a ferry to the immensely popular holiday destination of Rothsey on the Isle of Bute. This annual migration was, for a short period in history, part of a major tourist industry which happened during the respective "Fair" of each town. For a hundred years a "holiday doon the watter" was the reward for the workers who toiled in the now long gone heavy industries of the West of Scotland - shipbuilding, steel, fabric mills, the chemical industry. |
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