Annan Shawhill railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Annan Shawhill


caption =
locale = Scotland
borough = Dumfries and Galloway
original = Solway Junction Railway
pregroup = Caledonian Railway
postgroup = London Midland and Scottish Railway
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
gridref =
years = 8 August 1870
events = Station opens as Annan
years1 = 2 June 1924
events1 = Station renamed Annan Shawhill
years2 = 27 April 1931
events2 = Station closes

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, and was closed by that company nine years later.

rail line
previous = Kirtlebridge
next = Bowness
route = Caledonian Railway

Solway Junction Railway
col = Caledonian colour

The site today

The station house is now a private dwelling. [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/884207]

References

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* [http://www.railscot.co.uk/Solway_Junction_Railway/frame.htm RAILSCOT on Solway Junction Railway]
* [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hstchg/railway1.htm Railways of the Solway Plain]