Old Photograph Railway Station Creetown Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Creetown near the head of Wigtown Bay, 18 miles Weest of Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Castle Douglas to Stranraer, Port Road, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway was opened by that company on 12 March 1861. It closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as a whole) on 14 June 1965.



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Old Photograph South Beach Railway Station Ardrossan Scotland

Old photograph of South Beach Railway Station in Ardrossan located in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was opened on 1 January 1883 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway, during the extension of the former Ardrossan Railway to Largs. It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Drem Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Drem, East Lothian, Scotland. The station was opened by the North British Railway on 22 June 1846, on the same date as the main line from Edinburgh to Berwick-upon-Tweed.

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Old Photograph Railway Station Balnaguard Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Balnaguard located South of Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. This was the intermediate station on the Ballinluig to Aberfeldy branch of the former Highland Railway opened on 2 December 1935 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, the line itself having been opened in 1865. It remained open until the closure of the entire line on 3 May 1965.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Abernethy Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland. Initially Abernethy Road opened concurrently with the Edinburgh and Northern Railway on 18 May 1848. When the line was extended this first station was replaced by Abernethy on 18 July 1848. It became part of the North British Railway in 1865, and so into the London and North Eastern Railway. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was closed by the British Transport Commission on 19 September 1955. Although the line through the station site is still open for trains, as part of the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line between Perth and Ladybank, the station at Abernethy is closed. A small section of the southbound platform is still in place, but is heavily overgrown.





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