Annan Shawhill railway station

Annan Shawhill
General information
Location	Dumfries and Galloway
Platforms	1
History
Original company	Solway Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
8 August 1870	Station opened as Annan
1 January 1917	Closed
2 March 1919	Re-opened
2 June 1924	Station renamed Annan Shawhill
27 April 1931	Station closed to passenger traffic
1955	Station 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 (M&CR) Maryport and Carlisle Railway

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 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 Passenger services were withdrawn in 1931 and the line south of Annan over the Solway Viaduct was closed completely.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. [1] 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.

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• 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. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |lastauthoramp= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• 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)

External links

• Video footage of the station in 2016