Beattock Station

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Beattock Station (disused) [NAT]

OS 1:2500 map, 1981.

'A two platform through station with a small wooden shelter on the down platform, linked to the up platform by a covered footbridge. The up platform station is a long low structure, incorporating a station house, and having crow-stepped gables. It has a projecting unglazed awning which may be original. Until c.1967, there was a motive power depot on the west side of the station which was almost completely demolished at the time of the visit, apart from a wooden footbridge linking two pairs of railway cottages to the station.'

[See also MS/749/5417, Dumfriesshire, Beattock parish].

Information from J R Hume, 21 May 1970.

Intermediate station junction for Moffat branch. Closed to regular passenger traffic 3 January 1972 and largely demolished 1985, leaving only stationmaster's house.

Information from: Mr M Horsey (RCAHMS), 2 February 1990.

G Daniels and L Dench 1980.

Caledonian Railway, 1848. Beattock Station was at the base of Beattock Bank, known for its 1:20 gradient. The station building is similar to that at Lockerbie. The timber-framed lead-roofed awning was gone by 1971.

G Biddle and OS Nock 1983.

Architect: Sir William Tite. Platforms were truncated after closure and the awning was removed but the offices and house still survive (1985) and are similar in style to locomotive station. Named and depicted along with turntables (three) and two mail traps (N and S) on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (Dumfriesshire, 1862, sheet xvi.15). The station is depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1:200 map as 'disused' (1981).

[See also RCAHMS Record Sheet MS 232/DU/AN/4].

Visited by RCAHMS (MKO) 2 July 1985.

Beattock Station was opened to passenger traffic (by the Caledonian Rly.) on 10 September 1847.

R V J Butt 1995.