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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 665731
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/665731
NX17SE 106 17029 70959
The station is depicted on the OS 1:2500 scale map of 1894 (Wigtownshire Sheet 6), and is no longer in use.
Information from RCAHMS (SC), May 2002.
This intermediate station on the Glasgow - Ayr - Girvan - Stranraer (main) line of the former Glasgow and South Western Rly was opened (by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Rly) on 5 October 1877. It closed on 7 February 1882, reopened on 16 February 1882, closed again on 12 April 1886, reopened again on 14 June 1886, and finally closed on 6 September 1965. The line itself remains open to regular passenger traffic.
This station is depicted, but not noted, on the current edition of the OS (GIS) AIB.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 July 2006.
R V J Butt 1995.
