Place Wigtown December 1877 Opened 5 October 1964 Line closed completely | Area Wigtownshire 25 September 1950 Closed to passengers | |
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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 Broughton Skeog railway station | ||
Wigtown (NX4344554828) was a railway station on the Wigtownshire Railway branch line, from Newton Stewart to Whithorn, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. It served a rural area in Wigtownshire. The station for passengers in 1950, and to goods in 1964.
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History
The Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway was formed from the amalgamation of two railway companies: The Portpatrick Railway and the Wigtownshire Railway, which got into financial difficulties; they merged and were taken over.
The single platformed station stood off the Harbour Road. It had a ticket office and waiting room, a stationmaster's house that still survives (datum 2013), a goods shed, a weighing machine, passing loop, crane, and several sidings.
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