New Galloway Station View from S showing SW and SE fronts of main building
SC 634733
Description New Galloway Station View from S showing SW and SE fronts of main building
Date 31/10/1964
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 634733
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content New Galloway Station, Dumfries & Galloway This station was opened in 1861 by the Portpatrick Railway, built to take passengers and goods to Portpatrick for a ferry to Ireland. It cut across Galloway as directly as possible, so that many of the stations, as here, were some distance from the communities they were supposed to serve. This shows the main platform building, a very basic structure. Unlike the first generation of railway stations in Scotland this building housed waiting room and booking office only, the agent's house being a separate structure. The railway from Dumfries to Challoch Junction, near Glenluce, was closed in 1965, and speedily dismantled. Latterly the main traffic on the line was in connection with the Stranraer-Larne ferries. The Portpatrick branch lost its importance when the ferry transferred to Stranraer, and closed in 1950. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/64/2/9
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