Archaeology Notes

Event ID 866552

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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This intermediate station on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Rly (which formed the greater part of the Dumfries-Stranraer 'Port Road') was opened (by the Portpatrick Rly) on 12 March 1861. It closed to regular passenger traffic, with the Stranraer (Challoch Junction) - Dumfries portion of the line, on 14 June 1965.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 July 2009.

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