Annan Shawhill railway station

Annan Shawhill
Location
Place Scotland
Area Dumfries and Galloway
Coordinates 54°59′10″N 3°15′02″W / 54.9860°N 3.2505°W / 54.9860; -3.2505Coordinates: 54°59′10″N 3°15′02″W / 54.9860°N 3.2505°W / 54.9860; -3.2505
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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Solway Junction Railway
 Left arrow Caledonian Railway Main Line Right arrow
Kirtlebridge
 Annan Shawhill
Annan
 Left arrow Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway Right arrow
 Solway Viaduct over Solway Firth
 Bowness
 Whitrigg
UpperRight arrow Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Kirkbride Junction
 Abbey Junction
LowerLeft arrow Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
 Bromfield
UpperRight arrow Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Brayton(M&CR)
LowerLeft arrow Maryport and Carlisle Railway

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 Passenger services were withdrawn in 1931 and the line south of Annan over the Solway Viaduct was closed completely.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
Kirtlebridge   Caledonian Railway
Solway Junction Railway
   Bowness

The site today

The station house is now a private dwelling. 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

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Butt 1995, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Mullay 1990, p. 131.

Sources

  • Butt, R. V. J. (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.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • Mullay, A. J. (1990). Rails across the border: the story of Anglo-Scottish Railways. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-186-8.
  • 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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