30-523: The Clydesdale Junction Railway company was formed to build a railway connecting Motherwell and Hamilton with Glasgow , in Scotland. Conceived for local journeys, it was used by the main line Caledonian Railway to get access to Glasgow, and was soon taken over by the larger company. The route formed an alternative main line to Glasgow for the Caledonian, and eventually was the dominant route to
60-578: A Gothic Revival style, partly inspired by York Minster , and ten years later collaborated with Charles Robert Cockerell in designing the London & Westminster Bank head office in Lothbury , also in the city. The rebuilding of the Royal Exchange , opened in 1844, was Tite's greatest undertaking. The previous building was destroyed by fire in 1838, and a competition to design a replacement
90-723: A classical style, Tite's design was the first to employ the Gothic revival alongside landscaping, which was subsequently judged to be the archetype for future cemeteries. Between 1853 and 1854, with Sydney Smirke , he landscaped Brookwood Cemetery near Woking in Surrey for the London Necropolis Company . Maintaining his associations with railways, this cemetery was served by a dedicated train service from London Necropolis railway station , next to Waterloo station , in central London. Between 1858 and 1859 he built
120-584: A frontage of about 400 feet, broken into several masses. At the centre of the façade was an arcade of five arches, with buttresses and pinnacles. The refreshment rooms had "an open timber roof, and oriels or bays, reminiscent of the dining-hall of olden times". As a company director of the South Metropolitan Cemetery Company he laid out his first cemetery at Norwood in 1836 and designed several significant monuments and chapels there. While previous cemetery designs had followed
150-537: A memorial church in the Byzantine style at Gerrards Cross , Buckinghamshire . Tite's active work as an architect ceased about twenty years before his death (in recognition of his contributions, however, he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1856). In 1851 he visited Italy after a grave illness. In 1854 he stood for parliament, unsuccessfully contesting Barnstaple as a Liberal , but
180-580: A northward extension from the original Polloc and Govan line, reaching its own South Side station alongside the GB&;NDR station. At first both stations were primitive affairs, but in 1849 the reception building was rebuilt to an imposing design by the architect William Tite . The Caledonian was engaged in extending the Townhead line to a new Glasgow terminus called Buchanan Street, but in November 1849 it
210-549: A short line from it to a Glasgow terminal. It obtained an authorising act of Parliament, the Clydesdale Junction Railway Act 1845 ( 8 & 9 Vict. c. clx), on 31 July 1845, with capital of £330,000. At Motherwell it linked with the Wishaw and Coltness Railway at a point a little east of the present-day station and junction. The Caledonian Railway obtained its own authorising act of Parliament,
240-702: A wide knowledge of English literature and was a good linguist and a lover of old books. He was an elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1835, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1839. He was President of the Camden Society and of the Royal Institute of British Architects . He was a director of the London and Westminster Bank and Governor of the Bank of Egypt; in 1856 he
270-520: The Caledonian Railway Act 1845 ( 8 & 9 Vict. c. clxii), in the same session, on the same day. The Caledonian had struggled for a long time to get approval for its main line linking Glasgow and Edinburgh with Carlisle and the burgeoning English railway network. Contemplating a long main line through relatively unpopulated terrain, the Caledonian had sought to economise by routing its line into Glasgow over two former "coal railways":
300-645: The Eastern Counties , London and Blackwall , Gravesend and South Western Railways, and in France those between Paris and Rouen and Rouen and Le Havre; an article in the Architect named the station at Rouen, spanning nearly ninety feet, as an example of his structural skill. Tite designed many of the early railway stations in Britain, including: His station at Carlisle was built in a neo-Tudor style with
330-695: The General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway made a connection to the Clydesdale line at Larkfield Junction, giving access from the Motherwell direction to River Clyde shipping berths at General Terminus. On 27 September 1848 the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway (GB&NDR) had opened a Glasgow terminus called South Side, located in the angle where Cathcart Road and Pollokshaws Road converge. The Clydesdale Junction line formed
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#1732773215161360-665: The Royal Institute of British Architects . He was particularly associated with various London buildings, with railway stations and cemetery projects. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath from 1855 until his death. Tite was born in the parish of St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London, in February 1798, the son of a merchant in Russian goods named Arthur Tite. He
390-515: The Wishaw and Coltness Railway , and the Glasgow, Garnkirk and Coatbridge Railway, successor to the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway . It was to lease those lines and they were to be modernised: they were partly horse-operated with primitive track on stone block sleepers, and had used a track gauge that had become common among Scottish mineral lines but was incompatible with the standard gauge used by
420-600: The Clydesdale Junction and the Polloc and Govan by an act of Parliament of 18 August 1845. The Clydesdale Junction Railway purchased the Polloc and Govan Railway in August 1846; the owner, William Dixon, received 2,400 Caledonian Railway shares in payment, suggesting that the Clydesdale was already in thrall to the Caledonian. Clydesdale Junction shareholders were guaranteed 6% on its capitalisation of £450,000, with
450-568: The Clydesdale line was an intrinsic part of the Caledonian Railway, but the Clydesdale Junction Railway Company continued to exist, expecting to receive its guaranteed 6%. In fact the Caledonian had significantly over-reached itself financially, in desperation to acquire or lease numerous railways under construction so as to secure territory against competitors. For some time it had been failing to make
480-464: The Clydesdale. An agreement later that year guaranteed payments of £25,250 annually in perpetuity, money that at the time the Caledonian could ill afford. The Clydesdale Junction Railway itself was now simply a part of the Caledonian Railway, and its small extent made it a minor part. Nonetheless it was a key part of the system. When Glasgow Central station opened in 1879, all of the Carlisle traffic
510-651: The Crossrail Glasgow scheme is as yet unfunded. Location list at opening of the line, 1 June 1849 (Motherwell to South Side), 10 September 1849 (Hamilton branch). This line is still in use as part of the Argyle Line , also used by West Coast and East Coast Main Line trains, and by the Shotts Line between Rutherglen and Uddingston. Motherwell Too Many Requests If you report this error to
540-527: The Euroterminal at Coatbridge rendered that redundant, and the site closed to rail use. The curving route to the north end of the terminal brings it close to the old City of Glasgow Union Railway line, and it has been suggested that a link there would be part of the Crossrail Glasgow scheme, enabling through running from the Motherwell direction to the north side of the Clyde at Bellgrove and beyond. However
570-499: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 555320075 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:53:35 GMT William Tite Sir William Tite CB FRS (7 February 1798 – 20 April 1873) was an English architect who twice served as President of
600-595: The city. Although the Company was taken over before completion of its line, its short route remains in heavy use today as part of the West Coast Main Line , carrying heavy inter-city and suburban traffic, and some freight. The Clydesdale Junction Railway was promoted to connect Hamilton and Motherwell with the southern side of Glasgow, by joining the eastern end of the Polloc and Govan Railway , and forming
630-423: The emerging national railway network. The route into Glasgow traced a broad northward sweep from Motherwell by way of Gartsherrie and Garnkirk, to a cramped and inconveniently located terminal at Townhead in Glasgow. The Caledonian now realised that the Clydesdale Junction line would give them an alternative, possibly superior, route to the City. In a quick submission, the Caledonian obtained authorisation to acquire
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#1732773215161660-565: The following year he was returned as Member of Parliament for Bath , which he represented until his death. He keenly opposed Sir George Gilbert Scott 's proposal to build the new Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other government buildings adjacent to the Treasury in Whitehall in the Gothic style . He was knighted in 1869 and was made a Companion of the Bath the next year. Tite had
690-411: The inevitable slump was now in force. The Clydesdale found it difficult to get subscriptions paid, and in November 1847 considered deferring further construction. However Thomas Brassey agreed to continue the work against credit, in effect financing the construction himself. The line opened between Rutherglen and Motherwell on 1 June 1849, between Newton and Hamilton on 10 September 1849. At this time
720-422: The option of having their shares purchased by the Caledonian for cash at a premium of 50%. (The Clydesdale was still under construction and the shares were not fully paid up.). The engineers for the line were Joseph Locke and John Edward Errington , the contractor was the firm of Brassey, Mackenzie and Stephenson. The Clydesdale, like the Caledonian, had been authorised at the height of the railway mania , and
750-499: The payments that were due, and there were suggestions of major financial irregularity within the Caledonian. In 1851 the Clydesdale company in concert with other concerns in the same position; the Caledonian attempted to stall by objecting that they should not have to pay out for railways that gave them inadequate income, but this was an obvious distortion of the legal position, and in May the Caledonian had to agree to pay £20,000 in arrears to
780-429: Was advertising two daily return trains to Edinburgh from South Side; the trains ran to and from Greenock over the friendly Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway . The Greenock line did not run directly into South Side, and the trains must have run to Larkfield Junction and reversed into South Side before continuing their journey. The route to Edinburgh was via Carstairs. There were five return journeys to Hamilton. By now
810-627: Was articled to David Laing , architect of the new Custom House , and surveyor to the Parish of St Dunstan-in-the-East. Tite assisted Laing in the rebuilding of St Dunstan's church : according to an article published in the Architect in 1869, Tite entirely designed the new building, Laing himself having no knowledge of Gothic architecture. In 1827–8 Tite built the Scottish church in Regent Square, St Pancras , London, for Edward Irving , in
840-420: Was diverted to that terminus, running over the Clydesdale Junction line. As suburban traffic developed towards the end of the nineteenth century and in the following decades, the route became increasingly important. South Side station closed in 1877 but the site was developed as a goods yard; in the 1970s it became Gushetfaulds Railfreight Terminal, and then Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal. However opening of
870-512: Was held the following year. When this proved unproductive, a second limited competition was held between Tite, Charles Robert Cockerell , George Gwilt , Charles Barry and Robert Smirke . Tite's winning design has an imposing eight-column entrance portico, inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, while the other sides of the building are based on Italian renaissance models. Tite was the architect for
900-835: Was nominated a member of the Select Committee on the Bank Charter. He was a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works , a magistrate of Middlesex and Somerset and Deputy Lieutenant for London. He was also a Governor of St. Thomas's Hospital , London, where he is commemorated by the William Tite Scholarship, for the best student in the first year, with the highest aggregate marks in Anatomy and Physiology. After over 125 years, this prize has been subsumed into King's College London , where it
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