Garlieston railway station

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Garlieston
Location
Location	Garlieston
Area	Wigtownshire
Operations
Original company	Wigtownshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian, Glasgow & South Western, Midland and London North Western Railways
History
3 April 1876	Opened
1 March 1903	Closed to passenger services
25 September 1950	Closed to all services
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-Z
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Garlieston is the closed terminus of the Garlieston branch of Wigtownshire Railway; running from a junction at Millisle. It served the coastal village and harbour of Garlieston in Wigtownshire. The Garlieston branch, together with the rest of the Wigtownshire Railway, closed on 25 September 1950.

The Wigtownshire Railway was itself a branch of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway; running from a junction at Newton Stewart to Whithorn.

Contents 1 Services 2 See also 3 External links 4 References 5 Further reading

[edit] Services

The branch opened from Millisle to Garlieston on 3 August 1878 for both goods and passengers.^[1]

Regular passenger services ceased on the Garlieston branch on 1 March 1903.^[1] However, Garlieston had a good harbour and it occasionally ran boat excursions to the Isle of Man.^[2] These were well patronised, so the railway continued to provide excursion trains to Garlieston until 1935.^[2]

Goods services ran from Newton Stewart to Whithorn and to Garlieston until the Whithorn branch closed completely on 5 October 1964. By the 1960s, these services ran three days per week; with conditional working on the Garlieston branch, when required.^[3]

[edit] See also

• List of closed railway stations in Britain

[edit] External links

• Disused stations

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. London: Guild Publishing.
• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
• Casserley, H.C.(1968). Britain's Joint Lines. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0024-7.
• Jowett, Alan. (1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1.
• Thomas, John (1976). Forgotten Railways: Scotland. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-8193-8.

Preceding station	Historical Railways			Following station
Millisle		Caledonian, Glasgow & South Western, Midland and London North Western Railways  Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway		Terminus Line and station closed