Place Garlieston Grid reference NX463463 25 September 1950 Closed to passengers | Area Wigtownshire 1 March 1903 Opened | |
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Pre-grouping Caledonian, Glasgow & South Western, Midland and London North Western Railways Original company Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway People also search for Whauphill railway station | ||
Millisle or Millisle for Garlieston was a railway station that was near the junction for Garlieston on the Wigtownshire Railway branch line, from Newton Stewart, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. It served a rural area in Wigtownshire. The line was closed to passenger services in 1950, and to goods in 1964.
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History
The station replaced Garliestontown that lay to the north and opened as a terminus in 1876. A shed was located here which was a combined goods shed and engine shed. A passing loop was present and a single platform at the station.
Regular passenger services ceased on the Garlieston branch on 1 March 1903; Millisle was then renamed as Millisle for Garlieston.
The station master's house survives as a private dwelling named Kilfillan Croft.
Micro-history
A Millisle Road Halt railway station existed on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Donaghadee in Northern Ireland.