Millisle railway station

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Millisle

Millisle for Garlieston [1]
Disused Whithorn Railway Line - geograph.org.uk - 601877.jpg
The old railway near Millisle Station
General information
Location Garlieston, Wigtownshire
Scotland
Grid reference NX463463
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Wigtownshire Railway
Pre-grouping Caledonian, Glasgow & South Western, Midland and London North Western Railways
Key dates
1 March 1903 [2] Opened
25 September 1950 [2] Closed to passengers
1964closed completely

Millisle, later Millisle for Garlieston [1] was a railway station that was near the junction for Garlieston on the Wigtownshire Railway branch line, from Newton Stewart to Whithorn, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. It served a rural area in Wigtownshire. The line was closed to passenger services in 1950, and to goods in 1964.

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History

The station replaced Garliestontown that lay to the north and opened as a terminus in 1876. [2] A shed was located there which was a combined goods shed and engine shed. A passing loop was present and a single platform at the station.

Regular passenger services ceased on the Garlieston branch on 1 March 1903; Millisle was then renamed as Millisle for Garlieston. [2]

The station master's house survives as a private dwelling named Kilfillan Croft. [3]

Micro-history

A Millisle Road Halt railway station existed on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Donaghadee in Northern Ireland.

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References

Notes
  1. 1 2 RCAHMS Retrieved : 2013-01-11
  2. 1 2 3 4 Butt, Page 160
  3. Visit Scotland Retrieved : 2013-01-11
Sources
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Sorbie
Line and station closed
  Caledonian, Glasgow & South Western,
Midland and London North Western Railways
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
  Garlieston
Line and station closed
   Broughton Skeog
Line and station closed

54°47′18″N4°23′30″W / 54.7884°N 4.3916°W / 54.7884; -4.3916