Sorbie Station
House (Period Unassigned), Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Sorbie Station
Classification House (Period Unassigned), Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sorbie, Station House
Canmore ID 63226
Site Number NX44NW 40
NGR NX 43507 47559
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63226
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Sorbie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX44NW 40 43507 47559
Station House [NAT] (at NX 43507 47559)
OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.
Location formerly entered as NX 4350 4755.
(Location cited as NX 436 475). Sorbie Station, rebuilt after a fire in 1880 by the Wigtownshire Rly, and now dominated by the recently-enlarged creamery. The up platform and its single-storey building survive.
J R Hume 1976.
This intermediate station on the Newton Stewart - Whithorn ('Wigtownshire Rhinns' or 'Machars') branch of the former Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Rly was opened (by the Wigtownshire Rly) on 2 August 1875. It closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as a whole) on 25 September 1950.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 July 2006.
R V J Butt 1995.
