Stranraer Town railway station

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

Stranraer Town
General information
LocationScotland
Coordinates54.9006°N 5.0169°W / 54.9006; -5.0169
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingPortpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
Key dates
11 March 1861Station opened
7 March 1966closed for passengers
2009closed completely
Portpatrick and
Wigtownshire
Joint Railway
Castle Douglas
Portpatrick Line Junction
Crossmichael
Parton
Loch Ken Viaduct
New Galloway
Stroan Viaduct
Loch Skerrow Halt
Gatehouse of Fleet
Creetown
Palnure
Newton Stewart
Newton Stewart Junction
Mains of Penninghame
Causeway End
Wigtown
Kirkinner
Whauphill
Sorbie
Millisle
Millisle Junction
Garlieston
Broughton Skeog
Whithorn
Kirkcowan
Glenluce
Challoch Junction
Dunragit
Castle Kennedy
Cairnryan Junction
Stranraer Harbour Junction
Stranraer Harbour
Stranraer Town
Colfin
Portpatrick
Portpatrick Harbour

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 remained in-situ, heavily overgrown, until 2015 when lifting commenced and by 2017 it had been completed.[2]

See also

References

  1. "Chronology for Portpatrick Railway". A History of Britain's Railways. Railscot. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  2. "Stranraer freight facility removed" www.saysla.org news article, 16 March 2015; Retrieved 2 June 2017


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.