Kirtlebridge railway station

55°03′01″N 3°12′42″W / 55.0502°N 3.2117°W / 55.0502; -3.2117Grid referenceNY2268373536Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyCaledonian RailwayPre-groupingCaledonian RailwayPost-groupingLondon Midland and Scottish RailwayKey dates10 September 1847Station opened^[1]13 June 1960Station closed^[1]

Kirtlebridge railway station was a station which served the rural area around Kirtlebridge and Eaglesfield, north of Annan in Dumfriesshire, Scotland; the location is now within the area of Dumfries and Galloway unitary council.

The station was served by local trains on the Caledonian Railway main line between Carlisle and Glasgow, now the West Coast Main Line, and the station was the junction for the Solway Junction Railway. The nearest station for Kirtlebridge is now at Lockerbie.

History

Opened by the Caledonian Railway,^[1] it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway following the Grouping of 1923 and was then closed by British Railways in 1960. The station was the junction for the Solway Junction Railway, which connected the mineral districts of Cumberland and Westmoreland to the Caledonian line.

The station had a number of sidings, a goods shed, turntable, signal box, a bay platform and an interchange with the main line.^[2] A narrow gauge mineral line ran over the main line to serve local quarries and the old bridge survives as part of a narrow access lane.

Passenger services on the Solway line as far as Annan were withdrawn on 27 April 1931, the line south of Annan over the Solway Viaduct having already closed completely. Goods services were withdrawn on 28 February 1955.^[3]

Accident

A rail crash that took place on 2 October 1872 when a night express passenger train from London ran at 40 mph into a shunting goods train. Eleven passengers and one engineman were killed.

Location

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Kirkpatrick Line open; Station closed		Caledonian Railway Main Line		Ecclefechan Line open; Station closed
	Disused railways
Terminus		Caledonian Railway Solway Junction Railway		Annan Shawhill Line and station closed

The site today

Trains pass at speed on the electrified West Coast Main Line. The station has been demolished and the M74 runs over part of the old station site. The Station Hotel stood nearby, but it has also been demolished.^[4]

v t e Caledonian Railway main line
Legend
Carstairs to Carlisle
Caledonian Railway main line to Greenhill Junction Carstairs Caledonian Railway main line to Edinburgh Strawfrank Junction Thankerton Symington (2nd station) Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway Symington (1st station) Lamington Abington Crawford Elvanfoot Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch Beattock Summit (Private halt) Auchencastle Moffat Beattock Wamphray Dinwoodie Nethercleugh Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway Lockerbie Ecclefechan Kirtlebridge Solway Junction Railway Kirkpatrick Quintinshill loops Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway Gretna Junction Gretna│Gretna (BUR) Longtown Border Union Railway Floriston Rockcliffe Border Union Railway ('the Waverley Line') Willowholme Jn│Port Carlisle Branch Jn Caldew Junctions Carlisle Citadel Citadel South Junctions Maryport and Carlisle Railway London Road Junction Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Petteril Bridge Junction Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Settle–Carlisle line

References

Notes

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• 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.

External links

• Rail Brit