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Old Photograph Railway Station Gatehouse of Fleet Scotland
Old photograph of the railway station in Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Castle Douglas to Stranraer of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway is situated North West of the town from which it takes its name. It was opened as Dromore Station in September 1861, and was renamed Gatehouse Station, on 1 July 1863, Dromore for Gatehouse Station, on 1 June 1865, Gatehouse Station, on 1 September 1866, Dromore Station, on 1 June 1871. and Gatehouse of Fleet Station on 1 January 1912. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 5 December 1949, but reopened on 20 May 1950, finally closing, with the line as a whole, on 14 June 1965.
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