Place Scotland Pre-grouping Caledonian Railway Original company Solway Junction Railway | Area Dumfries and Galloway 1 January 1917 Closed Platforms in use 1 | |
Post-grouping London Midland and Scottish Railway 8 August 1870 Station opened as Annan Similar Kirtlebridge railway station, Bowness railway station, Annan railway station, Chapelcross nuclear power sta, Coronation Chair | ||
Annan shawhill railway station dumfries galloway
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.
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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 Passenger services were withdrawn in 1931 and the line south of Annan over the Solway Viaduct was closed completely.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.
The site today
The station house is now a private dwelling. [1] 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.