Annan railway station
Annan railway station serves the town of Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow South Western Line 17 1⁄2 miles (28.2 km) northwest of Carlisle. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by Abellio ScotRail, which provides nearly all passenger train services with Northern running two to Newcastle.
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 Frontage of Annan station; built in 1848 in the Italianate style, the main building is now a pub/restaurant and B&B. | |
| Location | Annan, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland |
| Coordinates | 54.9835°N 3.2629°W |
| Grid reference | NY193661 |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | ANN |
| History | |
| Original company | Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Glasgow and South Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | LMS |
| Passengers | |
| 2015/16 |  0.119 million |
| 2016/17 |  0.124 million |
| 2017/18 | 0.129 million |
| 2018/19 | 0.139 million |
| 2019/20 | 0.133 million |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
Until the early 1980s, the goods yard at Annan station was still in regular use. The station was also used to dispatch fresh fish to London until the mid to late 1980s.
Shortly after leaving Annan station on a westbound service to Dumfries, the line crosses a viaduct over the River Annan and adjoining flood plains. Also just to the west of Annan is a disused junction and dismantled line heading south to the Cochran's Boiler plant at Newbie.[2]
History
Opened by the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, then run by the Glasgow and South Western Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
In 1975, the section of line eastwards to Gretna Junction was singled by British Rail as part of the West Coast Main Line electrification and re-signalling scheme, with control shared between the power box at Carlisle and the signal box at the station. However the second track was re-instated in 2008 by Network Rail to help deal with increased traffic levels (mainly train loads of imported coal from the deep water terminal at Hunterston to power stations in the East Midlands & West Yorkshire).
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail.
Annan Shawhill railway station
At one point in its history, Annan was served by two railway stations (1870–1931). Annan Shawhill station was on the long-disused Solway Junction Railway which ran from Kirtlebridge on the current West Coast Main Line through the east side of Annan, across the Solway Firth and on to Maryport in Cumbria.
Newbie Junction Halt
Newbie Junction Halt railway station was located to the west of the Annan Viaduct and briefly (1898 to 1904) served only workers employed at the Cochran & Co. boiler factory and the Newbie Brick and Tile works with trains calling in the mornings and evenings only.
Services
There is generally an hourly service southbound to Carlisle and northbound to Dumfries, with two-hourly extensions to Kilmarnock and Glasgow Central. A few southbound trains continue beyond Carlisle to Newcastle via the Tyne Valley line.
On Sundays five trains a day head southbound to Carlisle and northbound to Dumfries, with two of the latter continuing through to Glasgow Central.[3]
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gretna Green | Abellio ScotRail Glasgow South Western Line |
Dumfries | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Eastriggs Line open; station closed |
Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway |
Cummertrees Line open; station closed | ||
| Bowness Line and station closed |
Caledonian Railway Solway Junction Railway |
link to Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway | ||
References
Notes
- Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
- (BIB Cochran) Archived 21 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Table 216 National Rail timetable, December 2017
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.