Archaeology Notes

Event ID 796794

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX45NE 57.00 47527 59957

Ticket Office [NAT] (at NX 47525 59946)

OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.

NX45NE 57.01 NX 47579 59942 Goods Shed (Kilwhirn House)

Location formerly entered as NX 47432 59963.

Creetown Railway Station is no longer used as such. The railway line which ran through Creetown was closed when Dr Beeching's cuts came into effect. This former Goods Shed is now known as Kilwhirn House.

Information from RCAHMS (LKFJ), February 2002.

This intermediate station on the Castle Douglas - Stranraer 'Port Road' of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Rly was opened by that company on 12 March 1861. It closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as a whole) on 14 June 1965.

This station is depicted (but noted) on the 1993 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 July 2006.

R V J Butt 1995.