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Gretna (Border Union) railway station

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Place
  
Near Gretna Green

Pre-grouping
  
North British Railway

9 August 1915
  
Closed

Platforms in use
  
2

Area
  
City of Carlisle

1 November 1861
  
Opened

Original company
  
Border Union Railway

Similar
  
Bromfield (Cumbria) railway st, Black Dyke Halt railway st, Curthwaite railway station, Cumberland and Westmorl, Abbey Town railway st

Gretna railway station was a railway station close to Gretna Green in Scotland although the station was on the English side of the border. However the Border Union Railway built the station adjacent to the Caledonian Railway's Gretna station south on Gretna Junction and in the England/Scotland border in Cumbria.

History

The station opened on 1 November 1861. It closed on 9 August 1915.

As with the adjancent Caledonian station, very little remains of the station in 2008.

The Border Union Railway station was one of three serving Gretna, the others being:

  • Gretna built by Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway in 1848 (successor station open)
  • Gretna built by the Caledonian Railway in 1847, closing in 1951.

    • References

    Gretna (Border Union) railway station Wikipedia
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