Stranraer Town railway station

Stranraer Town
General information
Location	Scotland
Coordinates	54°54′02″N5°01′01″W / 54.9006°N 5.0169°W / 54.9006; -5.0169
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
Key dates
11 March 1861	Station opened
7 March 1966	closed for passengers
2009	closed completely
Location

v t e Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railways
Legend
Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway Castle Douglas Portpatrick Line Junction Kirkcudbright Railway Crossmichael Parton Loch Ken Viaduct New Galloway Stroan Viaduct Loch Skerrow Halt Water of Fleet Viaduct Gatehouse of Fleet Creetown Palnure Newton Stewart Newton Stewart Junction Mains of Penninghame Causeway End Wigtown Kirkinner Whauphill Sorbie Millisle Millisle Junction Garlieston Broughton Skeog Whithorn Kirkcowan Glenluce Water of Luce Viaduct Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway Challoch Junction Dunragit Castle Kennedy Cairnryan Junction Cairnryan Military Railway Stranraer Harbour Junction Stranraer Harbour Stranraer Town Colfin Portpatrick Portpatrick Harbour

Stranraer Town railway station, located in Wigtownshire, Scotland, served the town of Stranraer and was a station on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway.

History

Opened on 11 March 1861, when the Castle Douglas to Stranraer Town was opened, it was closed to passengers on 7 March 1966, ^[1] the year after the closure of the 'Port Road' route to Castle Douglas & Dumfries. Services beyond here to Portpatrick had previously ended in 1950.

Though closed to passenger traffic, the station and surrounding sidings remained in regular use as a freight depot until the end of Speedlink wagonload traffic in 1993. The last trains were steel trains from Tees Yard. All regular freight traffic from here to Northern Ireland via the ferries subsequently ceased and the depot was formally closed in 2009. The sidings remained in-situ, heavily overgrown, until 2015 when lifting commenced and by 2017 it had been completed. ^[2]

See also

• Stranraer Harbour railway station

References

1. "Chronology for Portpatrick Railway". A History of Britain's Railways. Railscot. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
2. "Stranraer freight facility removed" www.saysla.org news article, 16 March 2015; Retrieved 2 June 2017

External links

• Video footage of the remnants of Stranraer Town station site, depot and freight sidings