Loch Skerrow Halt railway station

Loch Skerrow Halt railway station served the burgh of Skerrow, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, from 1955 to 1963 on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway.

Loch Skerrow Halt
The site of the station in 2019
General information
LocationSkerrow, Dumfries and Galloway
Scotland
Coordinates54.9895°N 4.1743°W / 54.9895; -4.1743
Grid referenceNX609682
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyBritish Railways (Scottish Region)
Key dates
13 June 1955 (1955-06-13)Opened
9 September 1963 (1963-09-09)Closed

History

The station opened on 13 June 1955 by the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. It had a siding and a signal box. The purpose of the station was to split the track between New Galloway and Gatehouse of Fleet. With a sparse local population, there was no longer a need for a station, so it closed on 9 September 1963.[1][2] The line was closed in 1965.[3]

Richard Hannay, the hero of the 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan, reputedly got off a train here, fearing that he had become the prime suspect in a couple of murders in London.[3][4]

References
  1. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales - a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 260. OCLC 931112387.
  2. "Loch Skerrow Halt". Canmore. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  3. Dumfries & Galloway Curiosities by David Carroll - Google Books
  4. Jack, Ian (9 February 2021). "A tunnel linking Scotland and Northern Ireland? Fantasy has replaced British modesty". The Guardian.
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
New Galloway
Line and station closed		   Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway   Gatehouse of Fleet
Line and station closed


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