Bridge of Dee, Galloway

Kirkcudbright Railway
Locale Scotland
Dates of operation 1864 – 1965
Track gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway
to Dumfries
Castle Douglas
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
to Stranraer
Bridge of Dee
Tarff
Kirkcudbright
Bridge of Dee Station

Bridge of Dee, Galloway is a settlement on the River Dee, Galloway. It lies on the A75 just west of Castle Douglas, and north-east of Kirkcudbright.

The former Kirkcudbright Railway, linking Kirkcudbright with Castle Douglas, passed through the village. The station is now a house.[1]

People from Bridge of Dee

  • William Allan Forsyth Hepburn FRSE OBE MC LLD (1891-1950) educationalist[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Kirkcudbright Railway". RailScot. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  2. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.

Coordinates: 54°55′N 3°59′W / 54.917°N 3.983°W / 54.917; -3.983

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