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Stranraer, Station Street, Stranraer Motive Power Depot And Railway Workshops
Engine Shed (19th Century), Goods Station (19th Century), Railway Turntable (19th Century), Railway Works (19th Century)
Site Name Stranraer, Station Street, Stranraer Motive Power Depot And Railway Workshops
Classification Engine Shed (19th Century), Goods Station (19th Century), Railway Turntable (19th Century), Railway Works (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Stair Park; Portpatrick Works; Town Railway Yard; Stranraer Mpd
Canmore ID 297588
Site Number NX06SE 215
NGR NX 06793 60482
NGR Description NX 06793 60482 and NX 06770 60533
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/297588
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX06SE 215 06793 60482 and 06770 60533
Town Railway Yard [NAT] (at NX 06697 60454)
OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.
For goods shed at NX 06690 60434, see NX06SE 170.01.
NX06SE 215 06793 60482 and 06770 60533
The remains of the railway motive power depot and works have been identified from oblique aerial views taken in 2008 (RCAHMSAP 2008). Visible are the abandoned sidings, goods platform, an engine shed, the infilled turntable pit and the area fomerly taken by the former workshops and engine shed (NX 06770 60583), now used as a scrapyard owned by King Brothers. The former Caledonian Railway engine stone built shed survives at NX 06793 60482, but most of the rest of the site has been cleared. The depot closed in 1966 when steam locomotive traction ceased in the area.
The railway features are depicted on the Revision Edition of the OS 25-inch map (Wigtownshire, c.1918), which shows how the railway buildings were arranged.
Originally there were two railway Companies at Stranraer, one from Dumfries via Dalbeattie (The Portpatrick & Wigtownshire Joint Railway), which continued to Portpatrick and the Joint Caledonian Railway and Glasgow and South Western Railway (GSWR) extension from Girvan to Stranraer with additionally, London and North Western and Midland Railway involvement. Originally there were four main strctures, reflecting the former Railway Companies, a Workshop/erecting/engine shed shop formerly the Portpatrick Works, Girvan shed, Caledonian shed and Joint shed. The Caledonian Railway Company being a three-road through shed and the GSWR building a much more substantial stone building, a two road, with another two road shed, the latter also used as a repair workshop.
Information from RCAHMS(DE), January 2009
