Annan Shawhill railway station

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.

Annan Shawhill
LocationDumfries and Galloway
Scotland
Coordinates54.9860°N 3.2505°W / 54.9860; -3.2505
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companySolway Junction Railway
Pre-groupingCaledonian Railway
Post-groupingLondon Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
8 August 1870Station opened as Annan[1]
1 January 1917Closed[1]
2 March 1919Re-opened[1]
2 June 1924Station renamed Annan Shawhill[1]
27 April 1931Station closed to passenger traffic[1]
1955Station closed for freight traffic
Solway Junction Railway
Caledonian Railway Main Line
Kirtlebridge
Annan Shawhill
Annan
Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway
Solway Viaduct over Solway Firth 
Scotland
England
Bowness
Whitrigg
Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Kirkbride Junction
Sleightholme
Abbey Junction
Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Bromfield
Maryport and Carlisle Railway
Brayton
Maryport and Carlisle Railway

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 Passenger services were withdrawn in 1931 and the line south of Annan over the Solway Viaduct was closed completely.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.

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Kirtlebridge   Caledonian Railway
Solway Junction Railway
  Bowness

The site today

The station house is now a private dwelling. 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.[2]

References

Notes

  1. Butt 1995, p. 17.
  2. Mullay 1990, p. 131.

Sources

  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • Mullay, A. J. (1990). Rails across the border: the story of Anglo-Scottish Railways. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-186-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • RAILSCOT on Solway Junction Railway
  • Railways of the Solway Plain
  • Station on navigable O.S. map Route of line crosses open railway line to the east of current station Start of former Solway Bridge can be seen)


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