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Cairnryan Military Railway

Railway (20th Century)

Site Name Cairnryan Military Railway

Classification Railway (20th Century)

Canmore ID 90258

Site Number NX06SE 94

NGR NX 0850 6000

NGR Description From NX 0850 6000 to NX 0787 6500

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Inch
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Wigtownshire

Archaeology Notes

NX06SE 94.00 0850 6000 to 0787 6500

See also NX06NE 11.00

NX06SE 94.01 Centred NX 0830 6372 Workshops; Slipway; Nissen Huts

NX06SE 94.02 NX 0775 6025 to NX 0790 6105 Railway

NX06SE 94.03 NX 0794 6111 Building

Cairnryan Military Railway was constructed between November 1941 and June 1942. Included are the workshops at Innermessan (NX06SE 94.01) and an Army temporary railway (NX06SE 94.02) constructed to allow tipping to make embankments either side of the London Road bridge to proceed simultaneously.

Additional transfer siding space was built at Cairnryan Junction, where the line connected with the main line to Stranraer and the railway was fully signalled throughout, with signal boxes, workshops, engine sheds, double track in certain sections and wooden platformed stations or halts at London Road, Innermessan, Leffnoll and Cairnryan.

M Christensen 1995 (two parts)

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