Lochmaben railway station

Lochmaben
Lochmaben
	The site of the station in 2000
General information
Location	Lochmaben, Dumfries and Galloway ; Scotland
Coordinates	55°08′04″N3°26′26″W / 55.1344°N 3.4405°W
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerby Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 September 1863	Opened
19 May 1952	Closed

Last updated January 09, 2024

Lochmaben railway station was a station which served Lochmaben, in the Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It was served by trains on a local line which ran between the Caledonian Main Line (now known as the West Coast Main Line) at Lockerbie and the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway at Dumfries.

History

Opened by a small local independent company, the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerby Junction Railway (DL&LJR), when it opened the line between Lockerbie and Dumfries on 1 September 1863.^{[lower-alpha 1]}^[1]^[2]

The line was operated by the Caledonian from the outset, and in 1865 the DL&LJR was amalgamated into the Caledonian Railway by Act of Parliament. It was then used by the Caledonian as a strategic link to access Nithsdale and the Portpatrick line by running powers over the Glasgow and South Western Railway (GSWR).^[3]

In its early days Lochmaben station had a single platform on the south west side of the running line with a goods yard behind the platform. There was a goods warehouse, cattle pens and a crane.^[4] By 1899 the station was situated on a passing loop and there were two platforms either side of it.^[5]

The station building was in the Scottish baronial style with crow steeped gables, along with a substantial stone goods shed.

By 1899 a road over bridge was built to replace the level crossing of the Beattock road north out of Lochmaben.^[5] Doubling of the line was proposed but never constructed.

In 1923 the line became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) following the Railways Grouping of 1923. Since the LMS also took over the GSWR line to Dumfries via Annan, the Dumfries to Lockerbie line lost its strategic importance, and a gradual decline set in.

Lochmaben lost its signal box in the 1930s as an economy measure and subsequently the loop line was lifted.

During the war years the station was served by elderly ex London and North western 2-4-2 tank engines working a push pull service between Lockerbie & Dumfries, then in the last few years the passenger trains were pulled by ex Caledonian locomotives, the last being ex CR"Jumbo"0-6-0 17504.^[2]

Goods facilities were retained at the station until the early 1960s, and a Scottish Region camping coach was situated at the end of the goods shed siding behind the platform from 1956 to 1961.^[6]

All goods traffic along the line ceased on 18 April 1966.^[7] Subsequently the whole site has been cleared, the B7020 road to Beattock realigned across the site of the station and housing built over most of the goods yard.

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References

Notes

↑ Lockerbie was written as Lockerby in all the companies formative documentation^[1]

Citations

1 2 Grant (2017), page 157
1 2 Butt (1995), page 147
↑ Thomas & Paterson (1984), page 151
↑ "Lochmaben station on OS 25 inch map Dumfriesshire XLII.15 (Lochmaben - Combined)". National Library of Scotland. 1881. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
1 2 "Lochmaben station on OS 25 inch map Dumfriesshire XLII.15 (Lochmaben)". National Library of Scotland. 1899. Retrieved 13 July 2020. Original map survey done in 1856 with new railway data inserted in 1868
↑ McRae (1998), page 13
↑ Hurst (1992), page 43 (ref 1977)

Bibliography

Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991 . Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
Thomas, John; Paterson, Rev A. J. S. (1984). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. VI Scotland: The Lowlands and the Borders (2nd ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-9465-3712-7. OCLC 12521072.

External links

Station on navigable O.S. map

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Shieldhill Line and station closed		Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway Caledonian Railway		Lockerbie Line closed; station open

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[2] Lockerbie was written as Lockerby in all the companies formative documentation^[1]

[grant-1] 1 2 Grant (2017), page 157

[Butt147-3] 1 2 Butt (1995), page 147

[region6-4] Thomas & Paterson (1984), page 151

[5] "Lochmaben station on OS 25 inch map Dumfriesshire XLII.15 (Lochmaben - Combined)". National Library of Scotland. 1881. Retrieved 13 July 2020.

[map1899-6] 1 2 "Lochmaben station on OS 25 inch map Dumfriesshire XLII.15 (Lochmaben)". National Library of Scotland. 1899. Retrieved 13 July 2020. Original map survey done in 1856 with new railway data inserted in 1868

[7] McRae (1998), page 13

[8] Hurst (1992), page 43 (ref 1977)

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