Archaeology Notes

Event ID 790950

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 December 1998.

G Daniels and L Dench 1980; R V J Butt 1995.