Owing to the heavy passenger loadings and its status as the biggest interchange on the island's railway network, the station at St. John's was the only one on the network to boast a passenger footbridge, located at the westerly end of the station.  Although cleared signposted, instructing all passengers to "use the bridge provided", it appears that this was seldom used, and was removed by 1944, with one of the stanchions being retained as a store/crossing keepers' hut (see separate entry.  The bridge was of wooden construction on a brick-built base and spanned the Peel and Ramsey platforms, and after its removal one of the brickwork supports was retained as a storage room until the line’s final days.  Our view shows locomotive No. 11 Maitland of 1905 passing under the footbridge in a pre-war photograph.  Note the water column to the left of the train.