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Auchengray

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Auchengray (1848-1966)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Caledonian Railway.

Description

Auchengray was a three platform station to the north of a level crossing. There were two platforms on the main line and a bay (added around the time the Wilsontown branch opened, 1860 with a west to south curve creating a triangle in 1866) at the north end of the northbound platform. A small goods yard was at the north end, west side of the line. The signal box was on the south side of the level crossing, west side of the line.

A railway cottage remains on the west side of the line, just north of the level crossing. Platform mounds partially remain. The box closed in 1966, replaced by automatic barriers.

Auchengray village itself is around 3/4 of a mile north east.

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map

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Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

01/03/1867	Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway) Opened to passengers. The service ran from Auchengray, where a bay platform was added to the existing 1848 station, to Wilsontown, via the south curve.
10/09/1951	Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway) Wilsontown to Auchengray (Wilsontown Junction [2nd]) closed to passengers. Wilsontown and Haywood are closed. Auchengray, on the Caledonian Railway's Edinburgh line, remains open until 1966.