Booking Office
The station remarkably it retains the original station booking office dating from 1897 which is constructed in a distinctive "rustic" style with half-log cladding, and steep alpine roofing. For a major terminus of a once-busy line, the facilities remain basic and small the office measuring only 12' 6" by 8' and only providing accommodation for station master and crew; the station has never had its own toilets for instance, sharing facilities with the nearby Strathallan Hotel (latterly renamed "Terminus Tavern" owing to is proximity with both this and the horse tram terminus). Aside from the tarmacadam surfacing and modern shelter the site remains unchanged since opening.
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