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Gretna (Caledonian) railway station

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Place
  
Near Gretna Green

Post-grouping
  
LMS

10 September 1951
  
Closed

Platforms in use
  
2

Area
  
City of Carlisle

9 September 1847
  
Opened

Original company
  
Caledonian 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. The Caledonian Railway, however, built the station just south of Gretna Junction and the England/Scotland border, in Cumberland (now Cumbria).

History

The station opened on 9 September 1847. It closed on 10 September 1951.

Very little remains of the station in 2008.

The Caledonian 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 Border Union Railway in 1861, closing in 1915.

    • A short distance to the north on the Caledonian Railway are Quintinshill loops, the site of the rail crash in 1915.

    References

    Gretna (Caledonian) railway station Wikipedia
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