Sanquhar railway station

Sanquhar railway station is a railway station in the village of Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line. The old station buildings are in use as a holiday home. The station was re-opened (in 1994) together with Gretna Green, Auchinleck, New Cumnock, Kilmaurs and Dunlop after initially falling victim to the Beeching Axe in December 1965. Kirkconnel remained open but has also seen significant investment in its infrastructure.

Sanquhar
Scottish Gaelic: Seanchair[1]
Sanquhar station from the road bridge looking towards Kirkconnel, in 2007
Location
PlaceSanquhar
Local authorityDumfries and Galloway
Coordinates55.3710°N 3.9248°W / 55.3710; -3.9248
Grid referenceNS780102
Operations
Station codeSQH
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 27,472
2015/16 24,532
2016/17 27,350
2017/18 28,724
2018/19 28,050
History
28 October 1850[2]Opened
6 December 1965[2]Closed
27 June 1994[3]Re-opened under British Rail
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sanquhar from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Services

There is a two-hourly service in each direction (with one or two extras), southbound to Dumfries and Carlisle and northbound to Kilmarnock and Glasgow (the last southbound train terminates at Dumfries on weekdays only). There is also a single late-afternoon train each weekday through to Newcastle in the winter 2019-20 timetable.

The Sunday service is limited, with just two trains each way currently calling.[4]

See also

References
  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Butt 1995, p. 206.
  3. http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Glasgow_Dumfries_and_Carlisle_Railway/frame.htm
  4. Table 216 National Rail timetable, December 2019

Sources
  • Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Dumfries   Abellio ScotRail
Glasgow South Western Line
   Kirkconnel
Platform 1 and a train for Kirkconnel, in 2007
  • Nithsdale south of Sanquhar in 1961
  • Down freight on the Nithsdale Anglo-Scottish main line in 1961


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