Stranraer Town railway station

Stranraer Town
Location
Coordinates 54°54′02″N 5°01′01″W / 54.9006°N 5.0169°W / 54.9006; -5.0169Coordinates: 54°54′02″N 5°01′01″W / 54.9006°N 5.0169°W / 54.9006; -5.0169
Operations
Pre-grouping Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
Platforms 1
History
11 March 1861 Station opened
7 March 1966 closed for passengers
2009 closed completely
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Portpatrick and
Wigtownshire
Joint Railway

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Castle Douglas and
Dumfries Railway
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Kirkcudbright Railway
Crossmichael
Parton
New Galloway
Loch Skerrow Halt
Water of Fleet Viaduct
Gatehouse of Fleet
Creetown
Palnure
Newton Stewart
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Mains of Penninghame
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Wigtown
Kirkinner
Whauphill
Sorbie
Millisle
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Garlieston
Broughton Skeog
Whithorn
Kirkcowan
Glenluce
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Challoch Junction
Dunragit
Castle Kennedy
Cairnryan Junction
Cairnryan Military Railway
Stranraer Harbour Junction
Stranraer Harbour
Stranraer Town
Colfin
Portpatrick
Portpatrick Harbour

Stranraer Town railway station, located in Wigtownshire, Scotland, served the town of Stranraer and was a station on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway.

History

Opened on 11 March 1861, when the Castle Douglas to Stranraer Town was opened, it was closed to passengers on 7 March 1966,[1] the year after the closure of the 'Port Road' route to Castle Douglas & Dumfries. Services beyond here to Portpatrick had previously ended in 1950.

Though closed to passenger traffic, the station and surrounding sidings remained in regular use as a freight depot until the end of Speedlink wagonload traffic in 1993. The last trains were steel trains from Tees Yard. All regular freight traffic from here to Northern Ireland via the ferries subsequently ceased and the depot was formally closed in 2009. The sidings remain in situ and are now heavily overgrown.

References

  1. "Chronology for Portpatrick Railway". A History of Britain's Railways. Railscot. Retrieved 1 June 2011.


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