Archaeology Notes

Event ID 732640

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY16NE 38.00 19319 66161

Annan Station [NAT]

OS 1:2500 map, 1974.

NY16NE 38.01 NY 19082 66229 Signal box

Not to be confused with Annan, Shawhill Station (NY 2005 6642), for which see NY26NW 44.

NMRS REFERENCES

Glasgow & South Western Railway.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NY 193 662). Annan Station, opened 1848 by the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Rly. A two-platform through station with the main offices on the up platform in a handsome 2-storey ashlar block, incorporating a dwelling-house, with an awning added later. The down-platform shelter is single-storey, of wood and rubble construction. The platforms are linked by a lattice-girder footbridge. In the goods yard, there is a fine single-storey sandstone goods shed.

J R Hume 1976.

Railway station, off Station Road. whose main office is a two storey cottage orne, and a doric portico in the inner angle. The platform's M-roofed glazed awning is a late 19th century addition.

J Gifford 1996.

This intermediate station on the Carlisle-Glasgow ('Nith valley') main line of the former Glasgow and South Western Rly was opened 23 August 1848 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Rly. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 March 2006.

R V J Butt 1995.