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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 866552
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/866552
NX76SW 55 72900 66901
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.
