Annan Shawhill railway station
Annan Shawhill | |
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Location | |
Place | Scotland |
Area | Dumfries and Galloway |
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Operations | |
Original company | Solway Junction Railway |
Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
Post-grouping | London Midland and Scottish Railway |
Platforms | 1 |
History | |
8 August 1870 | Station opened as Annan[1] |
1 January 1917 | Closed[1] |
2 March 1919 | Re-opened[1] |
2 June 1924 | Station renamed Annan Shawhill[1] |
27 April 1931 | Station closed to passenger traffic[1] |
1955 | Station closed for freight traffic |
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Annan Shawhill was a station which served Annan, in the Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It was served by trains on a line which ran between from a junction with the Caledonian Railway Main Line at Kirtlebridge across the Glasgow South Western Line, then forming the Solway Junction Railway over the Solway Viaduct to England.
Annan is now served by the former GSWR station.
History
Opened by the Solway Junction Railway, then part of the Caledonian Railway it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1931 and the line south of Annan over the Solway Viaduct was closed completely. The line remained open from Annan to Kirtlebridge until 1955 for freight traffic when the line was then closed completely.
Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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Kirtlebridge | Caledonian Railway Solway Junction Railway |
Bowness |
The site today
The station house is now a private dwelling. [1] In 1965 the goods shed still survived and the trackbed was in use as the route for the pipeline that carried waste water from Chapelcross nuclear power station.[2]
References
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- RAILSCOT on Solway Junction Railway
- Railways of the Solway Plain
- Station on navigable O.S. map Route of line crosses open railway line to the east of current station Start of former Solway Bridge can be seen)
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- Articles that mention track gauge 1435 mm
- Disused railway stations in Dumfries and Galloway
- Former Caledonian Railway stations
- Railway stations opened in 1870
- Railway stations closed in 1917
- Railway stations opened in 1919
- Railway stations closed in 1931
- Scotland railway station stubs