Stranraer Town railway station

Stranraer Town
General information
Platforms	1
History
Pre-grouping	Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
Key dates
11 March 1861	Station opened
7 March 1966	closed for passengers
2009	closed completely

Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway Castle Douglas Portpatrick Line Junction Kirkcudbright Railway Crossmichael Parton Loch Ken Viaduct New Galloway Stroan Viaduct Loch Skerrow Halt Water of Fleet Viaduct Gatehouse of Fleet Creetown Palnure Newton Stewart Newton Stewart Junction Mains of Penninghame Causeway End Wigtown Kirkinner Whauphill Sorbie Millisle Millisle Junction Garlieston Broughton Skeog Whithorn Kirkcowan Glenluce Water of Luce Viaduct Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway Challoch Junction Dunragit Castle Kennedy Cairnryan Junction Cairnryan Military Railway Stranraer Harbour Junction Stranraer Harbour Stranraer Town Colfin Portpatrick Portpatrick Harbour

Stranraer Town railway station, located in Wigtownshire, Scotland, served the town of Stranraer and was a station on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway.

History

Opened on 11 March 1861, when the Castle Douglas to Stranraer Town was opened, it was closed to passengers on 7 March 1966, the year after the closure of the 'Port Road' route to Castle Douglas & Dumfries. Services beyond here to Portpatrick had previously ended in 1950.

Though closed to passenger traffic, the station and surrounding sidings remained in regular use as a freight depot until the end of Speedlink wagonload traffic in 1993. The last trains were steel trains from Tees Yard. All regular freight traffic from here to Northern Ireland via the ferries subsequently ceased and the depot was formally closed in 2009. The sidings remain in situ and are now heavily overgrown.