Archaeology Notes

Event ID 727293

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX76SE 37 76889 62832.

This intermediate station on the Gretna-Stranraer line (the 'Port Road') of the former Glasgow and South Western Rly was opened (by the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Rly) on 7 November 1859. It closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as a whole) on 14 June 1965.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 February 2000.

R V J Butt 1995.