Stranraer Town railway station

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

Stranraer Town
Location
Coordinates54.9006°N 5.0169°W / 54.9006; -5.0169
Operations
Pre-groupingPortpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
Platforms1
History
11 March 1861Station opened
7 March 1966closed for passengers
2009closed completely
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
Portpatrick and
Wigtownshire
Joint Railway
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

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


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