Ecclefechan railway station

Ecclefechan
Location
Place	Ecclefechan
Area	Dumfries and Galloway
Coordinates	55°03′59″N 3°17′01″W / 55.0665°N 3.2837°WCoordinates: 55°03′59″N 3°17′01″W / 55.0665°N 3.2837°W
Grid reference	NY1811575423
Operations
Original company	Caledonian Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
10 September 1847	Station opens[1]
13 June 1960	Station close[1]
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Ecclefechan railway station was a station which served the rural area around Ecclefechan, south of Lockerbie in Applegarth parish, Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It was served by local trains on what is now known as the West Coast Main Line. The nearest station for Ecclefechan is now at Lockerbie.

History

Opened by the Caledonian Railway,^[1] it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923 and was then closed by British Railways in 1960. The station had a goods shed with a signal box on the platform next to it. Several sidings were present and a minor road to Nether Collinhirst had run through the site.^[2]

Accidents and incidents

• On 28 January 1854 an accident occurred near Ecclefechan when a goods train which left Glasgow for Carlisle on the evening of the 27th, was, after repeated mishaps, brought to a stand between the Ecclefechan and Kirtlebridge stations. The train was run into by a passenger train going in the same direction, at 2 ¹⁄₂ miles (4 km) from Ecclefechan. The injuries to the passengers were not serious; two ladies suffered slightly, and the driver was hurt when he jumped from the engine of the passenger train, which, as well as the van of the goods train, was badly damaged.^[3]
• On 21 July 1945, an express passenger train overran signals and was in collision with a freight train that was being shunted. Two people were killed and 31 were injured.^[4]

The site today

Trains pass at speed on the electrified West Coast Main Line. The station has been demolished, however part of one of the platforms survives.

Caledonian Railway Main Line
Legend
Carstairs to Carlisle  Caledonian Railway Main Line to Greenhill Junction Carstairs Caledonian Railway Main Line to Edinburgh Strawfrank Junction Thankerton Symington Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway Lamington Abington Crawford Elvanfoot Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch Beattock Summit(Private halt) Auchencastle Moffat Beattock Wamphray Dinwoodie Nethercleugh Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway Lockerbie Ecclefechan Kirtlebridge Solway Junction Railway Kirkpatrick Quintinshill loops Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway Gretna Junction Gretna | Gretna (BUR) Longtown Border Union Railway Floriston Rockcliffe Border Union Railway ('the Waverley Line') Willowholme Jn | Port Carlisle Branch Jn Caldew Junctions Carlisle Citadel Citadel South Junctions Maryport and Carlisle Railway London Road Junction Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Petteril Bridge Junction Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Settle-Carlisle Line

References

Notes

1. Butt (1995), page 88
2. 25inch OS Map
3. Railway Archive Retrieved : 2012-11-06
4. Hoole, Ken (1983). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 4. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. 48. ISBN 0 906899 07 9.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
• RAILSCOT on Caledonian Railway

External links

• Rail Brit