Kirkcudbright Railway

Introduction

This line is closed. The line ran from Castle Douglas to Kirkcudbright.






Dates

  /  /1861Kirkcudbright Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
17/02/1864Kirkcudbright Railway
Opened from Castle Douglas (Portpatrick Railway and Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway) to Kirkcudbright.
07/03/1864Kirkcudbright Railway
Tarff for Gatehouse opened.
  /  /1865Kirkcudbright RailwayGlasgow and South Western Railway
Kirkcudbright Railway absorbed by Glasgow and South Western Railway.
01/09/1865Kirkcudbright Railway
Tarff for Gatehouse re-named Gatehouse [Tarff]. Presumably the Glasgow and South Western Railway (who now owned the Kirkcudbright Railway) was competing with the Caledonian Railway operated Portpatrick Railway for Gatehouse of Fleet traffic - for which neither of the two stations were convenient.
01/08/1871Kirkcudbright Railway
Gatehouse re-named Tarff.
03/05/1965Kirkcudbright Railway
Kirkcudbright to Castle Douglas closed to passengers.
14/06/1965Kirkcudbright Railway
Kirkcudbright to Castle Douglas closed to freight.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This was a two platform station in the north of Castle Douglas.
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See also
Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway
Portpatrick Railway
Time for a blether with the crew of Standard tank 80117, before it sets off from Castle Douglas with a Dumfries to Kirkcudbright service. ...
Brian Haslehust 24/04/1965
A Standard 2-6-4 tank waits at Castle Douglas with a service for Kirkcudbright in June 1964. ...
Brian Haslehust 22/06/1964
Standard 2-6-4T 80117 at Castle Douglas with a Dumfries to Kirkcudbright service in April 1965. ...
Brian Haslehust 24/04/1965
Looking west over the former junction between the Portpatrick Railway and the Kirkcudbright Railway. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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This was the temporary terminus of the Kirkcudbright Railway. It was south west of the St Andrew Street overbridge (now Abercromby Road). The platform was located on the south side of the line.
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The bridge carrying the A713 Abercromby Road over the trackbed of the former Kirkcudbright Railway as it left Castle Douglas. View is south west ...
John Furnevel 01/09/2009
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This was a single platform station, the platform being on the south side of the line. The station building was of two storeys.
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The 1864 former station at Bridge of Dee, photographed on a wintry day in November 2005 looking south west towards Kirkcudbright. The station closed ...
John Furnevel 11/11/2005
Looking north over the closed Bridge of Dee station. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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This was a single platform on a single track line. The station was in a rural location serving the surrounding farms. To the west are the High and Old bridges of Tarff crossing the Tarff Water. The station was named more for the Tarff Valley than a specific village or town. Gatehouse, for which it was named (or partly named) until 1871, is just under 7 miles west from the former station. ...

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Standard 2-6-4T 80117 at Tarff with a Dumfries to Kirkcudbright service in 1965. ...
Brian Haslehust 24/04/1965
Looking east at the closed Tarff station from the roadside. ...
Ewan Crawford //
The surviving main building of the former station at Tarff on the Kirkcudbright branch in November 2005, more than 40 years after closure of the line. ...
John Furnevel 09/11/2005
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This was the terminus of the railway from Castle Douglas. It was in the northern part of the town close to the bridge over the River Dee, the Kirkcudbright Bridge, with a two storey building frontage onto the St Mary's Street and Bridge Street corner.
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Standard Class 4MT 2-6-0 76073, after arrival at Kirkcudbright, on an August afternoon in 1963. ...
Brian Haslehust 22/08/1963
There have been no trains to Kirkudbright for over 50 years, but the station goes from incarnation to incarnation. Beyond the Line is the most ...
Colin Miller 03/04/2018
The Morris postal van drops off the mail for loading onto a late afternoon service from Kirkcudbright to Dumfries in April 1965. The locomotive is ...
Brian Haslehust 24/04/1965
Standard 2-6-4T 80117 slowly reverses its two carriages out of the platform at Kirkcudbright, after arrival with a service from Dumfries on 24th April ...
Brian Haslehust 24/04/1965
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