Glenluce railway station

Glenluce
General information
Location	Glenluce, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland
Coordinates	54.8805°N 4.8097°W / 54.8805; -4.8097
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
Pre-grouping	Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway Scottish Region of British Railways
Key dates
1862	opened
14 June 1965[1]	closed

Glenluce station was a station open in 1862 on the former Port Road that was constructed on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway.[2]^[page needed]

Glenluce station grounds in 1996.

It served the town of Glenluce and provided a strategic link between London Euston and the West Coast Main Line via Carlisle Citadel along the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway followed the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railway to the port at Stranraer for the ferries to Larne Harbour.^[citation needed]

It was closed under the Beeching Axe in 1965.

References

1. Daniels, G.; Dench, L. Passengers No More.^[full citation needed]
2. Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-049-7.