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All photographs of this location in date order.
![Looking north from the bay platform at the former Beattock station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/268.jpg "Beattock")
![Royal Scot 46118 <I>Royal Welch Fusilier</I>, carrying a 12B Carlisle Upperby shedplate, restarts a heavy northbound train after picking up a banker at Beattock in the early 1960s. The locomotive arrived at Upperby from 21A Saltley in 1963 and was withdrawn in June 1964. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20251.jpg "Beattock")
![View south from Beattock station during a quiet period in the 1960s. One of the bankers is using the opportunity to take on water in the siding alongside Beattock South box.<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20778.jpg "Beattock")
![Scene at Beattock in the 1960s. A banker simmers outside the shed between duties as a Britannia Pacific heads south towards the station with a freight. <br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20948.jpg "Beattock")
![Ex-Crosti boilered 9F 2-10-0 no 92024 coasts through Beattock station with a southbound freight in the sixties, having just descended the bank. Meantime, an exchange is taking place with the guard of a passenger train standing at the northbound platform, possibly concerning the whereabouts of the banking locomotive.<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/24000/24332.jpg "Beattock")
![Britannia Pacific no 70046 <I>Anzac</I> photographed shortly after passing below the road bridge (in background) just to the north of Beattock station with a down train in the mid 1960s.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/25000/25207.jpg "Beattock")
![Another Beattock banker gets to grips with another northbound passenger train as it sets off from alongside Beattock North signal box in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/25000/25343.jpg "Beattock")
![A <I>Clan</I> Pacific at speed with a southbound Aberdeen - Kings Cross fish train in the early 1960s, photographed shortly after passing through Beattock station.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/25000/25671.jpg "Beattock")
![Stanier 8F no 48318 pilots Gresley V2 no 60813 on a southbound freight seen shortly after passing Beattock summit in the mid 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/28000/28148.jpg "Beattock")
![<I>Taking a run at it...</I> Shunning all thoughts of assistance, Britannia Pacific no 70016 <I>Ariel</I> storms north through Beattock station in the mid sixties heading for <I>the bank</I>. 70016 arrived at Kingmoor in 1965 and spent its final two years there, being withdrawn by BR at the end of August 1967. <br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/29000/29592.jpg "Beattock")
![<I>Well, that's the worst over... </I> Thoughts of a fireman, as a Black 5 hurries north on the WCML in the 1960s with a parcels train, photographed shortly after passing Beattock summit.<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/30000/30023.jpg "Beattock")
![An up express freight on the WCML seen shortly after passing Beattock South box in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/31000/31403.jpg "Beattock")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42125 returning back down the bank towards Beattock shed in the early 1960s. The Moffat branch runs through the arch on the right hand side of the bridge. <br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/36000/36035.jpg "Beattock")
![70014 <I>'Iron Duke'</I> is about to run through Beattock station with a southbound parcels train in the 1960s. The Moffat branch line is to the right. <br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/36000/36673.jpg "Beattock")
![A <I>Royal Scot</I> drifts into Beattock station with a down Anglo - Scottish express in the early 1960s. The train will take on banking assistance here before tackling the climb north. <br><br>[David Stewart //]](/images/46000/46195.jpg "Beattock")
![An oft-repeated scene at the south end of Beattock station in the early 1960s as Beattock shed's Fairburn 2-6-4 tank no 42192 prepares for <I>the big push</I>. <br><br>[David Stewart //]](/images/48000/48315.jpg "Beattock")
![Photograph showing the station house at Beattock, thought to have been taken in 1864, featuring station master Thomas Cowan and members of his family. [Photograph kindly contributed by Professor Dorothy Whittington (great, great, granddaughter of Thomas Cowan) following publication of a recent photograph of the old station house on Railscot.] [See image 58931].<br><br>[Dorothy Whittington Collection //1864]](/images/60000/60510.jpg "Beattock")
![Banking locomotives at Beattock South around 1962. Fairburn 2-6-4 tanks 42693 (nearest the camera) and 42192 awaiting their next call in the sidings alongside Beattock south box. [See image 37574] <br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/48000/48121.jpg "Beattock")
![The south end of Beattock station in July 1962 with banking locomotives forming an orderly queue in the sidings beyond Beattock South signal box. <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /07/1962]](/images/37000/37574.jpg "Beattock")
![Looking south towards Beattock shed in July 1962 with Beattock station in the left background.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /07/1962]](/images/37000/37599.jpg "Beattock")
![The southern approach to Beattock station on a summer Saturday afternoon in 1962, with Perth based Black 5 no 45099 about to pull into the platform with a down passenger train. The required banking assistance is standing by at the end of the siding on the right.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /07/1962]](/images/37000/37800.jpg "Beattock")
![Jubilee 45602 <I>British Honduras</I> at Beattock station in the summer of 1962. The locomotive is carrying a 26A Newton Heath shed plate.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /07/1962]](/images/37000/37837.jpg "Beattock")
![<I>Push off!</I> A banker gets underway at Beattock in the summer of 1962. <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /07/1962]](/images/37000/37941.jpg "Beattock")
![<I>'Not today thanks...'</I> seems to be the message from the driver of Black 5 no 45124 in July 1962 as he takes an express freight past a waiting banking locomotive at Beattock South and continues the journey north unabated.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /07/1962]](/images/38000/38476.jpg "Beattock")
![Outside looking in. One of Beattock's banking locomotives stands at the entrance to the shed in the summer of 1962. <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /07/1962]](/images/38000/38527.jpg "Beattock")
![The siding and 'facilities' used by the duty banking locomotives at Beattock south in the summer of 1962. View looking back from the cab of a banker about to run up to the rear of a northbound train standing in Beattock station. <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /07/1962]](/images/38000/38614.jpg "Beattock")
![The northern approach to Beattock station in July 1962. Motherwell Black 5 no 45085, with less than 6 months operational life remaining before withdrawal, is about to take an up freight through the station. <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/36000/36810.jpg "Beattock")
![Beattock shed's BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80004 in position at the rear of a passenger train stopped at Beattock station in July 1962 ready to provide assistance on the ascent.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/37000/37134.jpg "Beattock")
![D329 with train 1S57 the down <I>'Royal Scot'</I> photographed passing through Beattock station in July 1962.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/37000/37609.jpg "Beattock")
![An up express hauled by a Standard <I>Clan</I> Pacific runs through Beattock station in July 1962.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/37000/37674.jpg "Beattock")
![An EE Type 1 brings a freight south through Beattock station in the summer of 1962.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/37000/37741.jpg "Beattock")
![Platform view north at Beattock station in July 1962. Polmadie class 5 4-6-0 no 73062 with a southbound train.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/37000/37921.jpg "Beattock")
![The 10am Euston - Aberdeen, having picked up a banking locomotive, heads north out of Beattock station on 14 July 1962. <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/37000/37975.jpg "Beattock")
![Stanier 'Princess' Pacific no 46200 <I>The Princess Royal</I> with the 10am Euston - Aberdeen at Beattock station on 14 July 1962, approximately four months before eventual withdrawal from Kingmoor shed [see image 20232].<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/38000/38152.jpg "Beattock")
!['Jubilee' 4-6-0 no 45584 <I>North West Frontier</I> stopped at the north end of Beattock station on 14 July 1962 to pick up banking assistance. The train is the summer Saturday 10.15 am Blackpool North - Glasgow Central.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/38000/38208.jpg "Beattock")
![The 10am Euston - Aberdeen awaits banking assistance at Beattock station in July 1962. The locomotive is Stanier Pacific no 46200 <I>'The Princess Royal'</I>.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/39000/39118.jpg "Beattock")
![A southbound train hauled by an unidentified 'Clan' Pacific calls at Beattock on 14 July 1962. One of Beattock shed's banking locomotives is standing alongside in the bay.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/07/1962]](/images/39000/39165.jpg "Beattock")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T No. 42693 gets stuck in at the rear of what I believe is the 09:25 Crewe - Perth, as Duchess Pacific No. 46226 Duchess of Norfolk pulls away from Beattock station. August 1962.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson /08/1962]](/images/56000/56844.jpg "Beattock")
![Beattock banker. BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T 80002 stands outside the shed in late 1963. Stored in the siding behind the shed on the right is veteran McIntosh 3F 0-6-0 no 57568. [See image 20292]<br><br>[K A Gray //1963]](/images/45000/45374.jpg "Beattock")
![Stanier <I>Coronation</I> Pacific no 46247 <I>City of Liverpool</I> stands alongside Beattock North signal box with the heavy 10am Euston - Perth on 15 April 1963 ready to take on banking assistance. <br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 15/04/1963]](/images/22000/22072.jpg "Beattock")
![46247 <I>City of Liverpool</I> has pulled up alongside Beattock North signal box with the heavily loaded 10am Euston - Perth train on 15 April 1963 in order to take on banking assistance for the climb to the summit. [See image 33475]<br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1963]](/images/28000/28174.jpg "Beattock")
![One of the four named Black 5s, no 45158 <I>Glasgow Yeomanry</I>, stands on Beattock shed in April 1963. [Note a fifth locomotive 45155 carried the name 'The Queen's Edinburgh' for two years during the second world war.] <br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1963]](/images/31000/31731.jpg "Beattock")
![Stanier Coronation Pacific no 46247 <I>City of Liverpool</I> photographed at the south end of Beattock station on 15 April 1963 heading the 10am Euston - Perth train. The train will shortly draw to a halt in order to take on banking assistance. <br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1963]](/images/32000/32032.jpg "Beattock")
![<I>'Right then - deep breaths...'</I> Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42214 getting psyched up for the task in hand at Beattock South on 15 April 1963. Standing up ahead is 46247 <I>City of Liverpool</I> with the heavy 10am Euston - Perth awaiting the arrival of assistance before tackling the climb to Beattock summit [see image 28174].<br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1963]](/images/33000/33475.jpg "Beattock")
![Kingmoor Black 5 no 44993 about to run south through Beattock station in April 1963 with a parcels train.<br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1963]](/images/40000/40329.jpg "Beattock")
![Black 5 no 45479 approaching Beattock station with a northbound train on a summer evening in 1963. The train is passing Beattock south signal box, alongside which one of the shed's banking locomotives is taking on water.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /07/1963]](/images/38000/38406.jpg "Beattock")
![A southbound freight about to run through Beattock station in 1965 passes BR standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76090 standing outside Beattock shed.<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1964]](/images/28000/28344.jpg "Beattock")
![42737 has arrived from Broughton.<br><br>[John Robin 29/03/1964]](/images/7000/7579.jpg "Beattock")
![McIntosh ex-Caledonian 3F 0-6-0 no 57568 of 1899 looks like it has performed its last task, standing in one of the sidings at the rear of Beattock shed in 1964.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/03/1964]](/images/20000/20292.jpg "Beattock")
![Lonely looking McIntosh 3F 0-6-0 no 57568 stands alongside the west wall of Beattock shed in March 1964. The ex-Caledonian 1899 veteran had been officially withdrawn from 66B Motherwell at the end of 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 29/03/1964]](/images/29000/29025.jpg "Beattock")
![Royal Scot 46118 <I>Royal Welch Fusilier</I> alongside Beattock North box picking up a banking locomotive on 29 March 1964. The train is the 9.30am Manchester - Glasgow Central. [See image 38881]<br><br>[K A Gray 29/03/1964]](/images/31000/31907.jpg "Beattock")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80001 caught giving a helping hand to the 9.30am Manchester - Glasgow Central at Beattock North on 29 March 1964. [See image 31907]<br><br>[K A Gray 29/03/1964]](/images/38000/38881.jpg "Beattock")
![Crab 42737 stands quietly at Beattock station on 29 March 1964, waiting to return to Glasgow Central with <I>Scottish Rambler no 3</I>. The fuss in the background centres around Beattock shed's BR Standard class 4 no 80001, which is in the process of banking out the down <I>Royal Scot</I>.<br><br>[John Robin 29/03/1964]](/images/45000/45562.jpg "Beattock")
![Crab 2-6-0 no 42737 stands at the up platform in Beattock station on 29 March 1964 with the SLS <I>'Scottish Rambler No 3'</I> railtour. At the other end of the train standard 2-6-4 tank 80118 is coupling up in readiness for the short trip to Moffat. [See image 30082]<br><br>[John Robin 29/03/1964]](/images/49000/49109.jpg "Beattock")
![Crab 2-6-0 42737 makes a spirited start in fading light from Beattock station on 29 March 1964, with the time approaching 6pm. The train is the SLS <I>Scottish Rambler No 3</I> on its way back to Glasgow Central following the final visit of the day to the Moffat branch.<br><br>[K A Gray 29/03/1964]](/images/53000/53252.jpg "Beattock")
![70002 stops at Beattock for a banker.<br><br>[John Robin 27/06/1964]](/images/7000/7580.jpg "Beattock")
![Looking the worse for wear, one of Beattock's final stud of steam bankers, Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42688, stands outside the shed not long before withdrawal in May 1965. The locomotive was cut up at Motherwell Machinery & Scrap, Wishaw, in July of that year.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/22000/22135.jpg "Beattock")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76090 stands outside Beattock shed in 1965. The locomotive was withdrawn from here at the end of the following year and cut up at Shipbreaking Industries, Faslane in April 1967, age 9 years and 10 months.<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/23000/23506.jpg "Beattock")
![Kingmoor Black 5 no 44692 stands at Beattock station with a southbound stopping train around 1965. <br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/27000/27840.jpg "Beattock")
![Scene at Beattock in fading light around 1965 as Clan Pacific no 72008 <I>Clan MacLeod</I> takes on banking assistance with a lengthy parcels train. Meantime a Black 5 bides its time in the loop with a northbound freight.<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/29000/29914.jpg "Beattock")
![One of Beattock shed's finest gets to grips with a heavy northbound parcels train at the start of the climb towards the summit in 1965. The train locomotive in this case is 72008 <I>Clan MacLeod</I> [see image 29914]. To the right of the photograph the Moffat branch turns off to the east.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/31000/31010.jpg "Beattock")
![One of the rebuilt ex-Crosti 9Fs pulls out of the down loop at Beattock with a Shap - Ravenscraig limestone train in April 1965. The train has just been joined at the rear by BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80045 prior to tackling the climb north [see image 34386].<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /04/1965]](/images/24000/24120.jpg "Beattock")
![Beattock banker no 80045 assists a rebuilt ex-Crosti boilered 9F with a Shap - Ravenscraig limestone train following a restart from Beattock down loop in April 1965 [see image 24120]. The former Moffat branch, closed to all traffic a year earlier, turns away to the right.<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /04/1965]](/images/34000/34386.jpg "Beattock")
![Black 5 45105 approaching Beattock station with a southbound train of empty stock on 31 July 1965. Traces of the Moffat branch survive on the right.<br><br>[John Robin 31/07/1965]](/images/6000/6490.jpg "Beattock")
![Black 5 no 44868 restarts a northbound train from Beattock on the last day of July 1965. 42694 is working hard at the rear.<br><br>[John Robin 31/07/1965]](/images/47000/47216.jpg "Beattock")
![Bankers at Beattock. Standard class 4 2-6-4Ts 80005 and 80117 stand outside Beattock shed in October 1965.<br><br>[K A Gray 17/10/1965]](/images/36000/36416.jpg "Beattock")
![HR 'Jones Goods' no 103 stands at Beattock station on 17 October 1965 with the BLS railtour on its way back to Glasgow after a circular tour via Dumfries and Lockerbie. [See image 21410]<br><br>[K A Gray 17/10/1965]](/images/40000/40928.jpg "Beattock")
![The <I>Jones Goods</I> at Beattock on 17 October 1965. No 103 is about to leave for Glasgow Central with a BLS railtour returning from visits to Dumfries and Lockerbie. <br><br>[G W Robin 17/10/1965]](/images/46000/46534.jpg "Beattock")
![Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76113 stands outside Beattock shed (behind camera) in the Summer of 1966 with Beattock North box in the background. 76113 was a Carstairs locomotive at this stage in its life.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1966]](/images/20000/20981.jpg "Beattock")
![The RCTS 'A4 to Glasgow' railtour stands at Beattock station on 16 July 1967 behind no 60019 <I>Bittern</I>. The special, which had originated from Leeds, ran north from Carlisle to Glasgow Central on the WCML and returned via the GSW route. An EE Type 1 provided assistance on the ascent of Beattock bank. <br><br>[K A Gray 16/07/1967]](/images/42000/42184.jpg "Beattock")
![Class 40 40138, north bound with cement wagons at Beattock station in the 1970s.<br><br>[Ian Millar //1970]](/images/63000/63102.jpg "Beattock")
![D8116 and D8124 stand alongside the abandoned Beattock shed in May 1971 with an engineers train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/1971]](/images/5000/5927.jpg "Beattock")
![6904 passing north through Beattock station in late 1972 with a down oil train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/09/1972]](/images/5000/5683.jpg "Beattock")
![20137 and classmate take a rest from banking duties at Beattock, seen from a passing train in December 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /12/1974]](/images/38000/38961.jpg "Beattock")
![In heavy rain the Ravenscraig-Shap empties head south through Beattock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8430.jpg "Beattock")
![Southbound passenger train at Beattock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8431.jpg "Beattock")
![Southbound passenger train at Beattock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8432.jpg "Beattock")
![Northbound 125 diverted from the ECML passes through Beattock. New rails on left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8433.jpg "Beattock")
![Northbound 125 diverted from the ECML passes through Beattock. Between the mainline on the left and siding on the right the Moffat Branch used to diverge off to the right at a lower level.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8434.jpg "Beattock")
![Goods shed - Beattock - February 1991.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/02/1991]](/images/36000/36897.jpg "Beattock")
![The goods yard office at Beattock in February 1991.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/02/1991]](/images/36000/36901.jpg "Beattock")
![View north from the up sidings at Beattock on 18 February 1991.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/02/1991]](/images/36000/36925.jpg "Beattock")
![With a fine mist hanging over the Southern Uplands, an unidentified southbound working in BR InterCity livery completes a high speed descent of the bank and is about to run through Beattock station on a February morning in 1992. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/02/1992]](/images/40000/40129.jpg "Beattock")
![Southbound WCML express at Beattock in August 1994.<br><br>[John McIntyre 06/08/1994]](/images/12000/12489.jpg "Beattock")
![A class 87 locomotive brings up the rear of a WCML service heading south through the remains of Beattock station in August 1994.<br><br>[John McIntyre 06/08/1994]](/images/16000/16981.jpg "Beattock")
![D1962 <I>'Captain Peter Manisty RN'</I> heading north through Beattock in the summer of 1994 hauling the stock of <I>The Royal Scotsman</I>.<br><br>[John McIntyre 06/08/1994]](/images/41000/41385.jpg "Beattock")
![47773 with a headboard 'The Capital Express' heads south at Beattock with a rake of maroon Mk1 coaches on 06 August 1994. The yellow BR vans add a bit of colour to the shot on what was a rather dull day.<br><br>[John McIntyre 06/08/1994]](/images/53000/53198.jpg "Beattock")
![Down coal empties approaching Beattock station from the south in 1997, double headed by a pair of class 37s sporting EWS and BR Railfreight Metals sector liveries.<br><br>[John Furnevel //1997]](/images/5000/5680.jpg "Beattock")
![56029 climbing Beattock with an oil train in April 1999. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/04/1999]](/images/5000/5684.jpg "Beattock")
![A 'Transrail' liveried class 56 with northbound oil empties passing Beattock in April 1999.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/04/1999]](/images/5000/5923.jpg "Beattock")
![Freightliner 86602 and friend double heading the Basford Hall - Coatbridge containers north through Beattock station on a misty morning in April 1999. Timber loading activity has been taking place in the sidings on the west side of the line.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/04/1999]](/images/43000/43625.jpg "Beattock")
![A pair of 'InterCity' liveried class 86 locomotives run north through the site of Beattock station in the spring of 1999 with a Virgin Rail WCML service. The second locomotive has its pantograph down.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/04/1999]](/images/54000/54261.jpg "Beattock")
![Beattock 2004 looking southwest.<br><br>[John Furnevel //2004]](/images/5000/5926.jpg "Beattock")
![Southbound Freightliner just north of Beattock.<br><br>[Beth Crawford //2005]](/images/11000/11554.jpg "Beattock")
![A northbound Virgin Voyager passes a static DRS 66406 with a lengthy train of Tesco containers in the down loop at Beattock on 12 October 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2006]](/images/11000/11726.jpg "Beattock")
![Lesson in brand promotion - Beattock 12 October 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2006]](/images/11000/11727.jpg "Beattock")
![DRS 66406 brings the Tesco containers out of the down loop onto the main line at Beattock and starts the ascent on 12 October 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2006]](/images/11000/11808.jpg "Beattock")
![DRS 66406 lifts the Tesco containers out of the down loop at Beattock on 12 October 2006, after being sidelined to make way for a northbound Voyager. [See image 11726]<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2006]](/images/45000/45728.jpg "Beattock")
![Looking to the main road from the former Beattock station. Stationmaster's house on right? Taken from the site of the station building at right angles to the line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 30/03/2008]](/images/18000/18750.jpg "Beattock")
![Last remaining building at the closed Beattock station. It is on the former island platform. The cut back northbound platform is just a mound. The freight bypass down the other side of the platform remains in place as a loop often used to move heavy freight trains out of the way of passenger trains before ascending Beattock Bank.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 30/03/2008]](/images/18000/18751.jpg "Beattock")
![Looking north at Beattock. The cut back former southbound platform is to left and the Moffat branch bay platform to right. The platform here is now fenced off and inaccessible.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 30/03/2008]](/images/18000/18752.jpg "Beattock")
![The lunchtime Glasgow Central - Birmingham New Street Virgin Trains service runs down Beattock bank and is just about to pass through the site of Beattock station on 17 July 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2008]](/images/19000/19862.jpg "Beattock")
![The loops and sidings at Beattock in July 2008. View south towards the former station site with a Pendolino about to commence the ascent and a Voyager disappearing into the distance. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2008]](/images/24000/24355.jpg "Beattock")
![I can just imagine the driver of the Freightliner pulling out his newspaper and perhaps reaching for a Thermos. The southbound loaded coal train was paused here while a number of Voyagers and Pendolinos sped past.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/01/2010]](/images/27000/27524.jpg "Beattock")
![A northbound Pendolino hurries through Beattock on 27 May 2012 as a pair of DBS Class 66s are held in the loop waiting for a path north.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/05/2012]](/images/38000/38972.jpg "Beattock")
![A southbound Virgin Voyager has just descended the 10 miles from Beattock Summit as it approaches Beattock village at speed on 27 May 2012. On the right the stub of the former Moffat branch can be seen.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/05/2012]](/images/39000/39054.jpg "Beattock")
![A pair of Class 66s come out of the down loop at Beattock and resume their journey north on 27 May 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/05/2012]](/images/41000/41561.jpg "Beattock")
![A southbound TPE service passes Beattock in the sunshine on 27 May 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/05/2012]](/images/62000/62202.jpg "Beattock")
![Start of the Moffat branch at Beattock - no, not the siding but the disused trackbed to the immediate left of it and right of the mainline.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 05/06/2016]](/images/55000/55399.jpg "Beattock")
![The stationmaster's house at Beattock gives some hint to the architecture of the former main station building. This stands across a small courtyard from the station site.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 05/06/2016]](/images/55000/55427.jpg "Beattock")
![View north west across fields on the south side of Beattock on a fine July morning in 2016. In the background the 0900 Manchester Airport - Glasgow Central is about to pass a Pendolino forming the 1051 Edinburgh - Euston via Birmingham New Street.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/07/2016]](/images/56000/56089.jpg "Beattock")
![Having completed the descent of Beattock bank, the 0840 Glasgow Central - London Euston is about to run through the site of Beattock station, located just behind the camera, on 27 March 2017.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58608.jpg "Beattock")
![DRS 37259 leaves a smokescreen over the down loop at Beattock on 27 March 2017 as it restarts its journey north, following an interruption to permit the passage of a Glasgow bound Pendolino.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58621.jpg "Beattock")
![The boarded up former station master's house at Beattock in March 2017. View is east with the WCML passing directly behind the camera. The station buildings themselves are long gone [see image 37674]. [Ref query 988].<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58672.jpg "Beattock")
![View north from the site of the up platform at Beattock in March 2017. Beyond the green fence is Beattock relay room and a Network Rail access point. (Timber loaded over on the right beyond the old Moffat bay is in the yard of a road transport company.) The passing train is the 0730 London Euston - Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58903.jpg "Beattock")
![Front view of the fenced off (and slightly creepy looking) former station master's house at Beattock. Photographed looking west in April 2016, with the WCML running past just beyond. [see image 58672].<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58931.jpg "Beattock")
![<I>'At the end of the station approach road the single storey former gate lodge also still stands, again probably by Tite...'</i> [Britain's Historic Railway Buildings - Gordon Biddle]. Looking south west across the main road through the village on 27 March 2017, just beyond the building the Beattock station approach road runs off to the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58994.jpg "Beattock")
![The remains of Beattock station looking north through the Network Rail access gate on 27 March 2017. The approaching train is the 0906 First TransPennine Express Glasgow Central - Manchester Airport.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2017]](/images/59000/59360.jpg "Beattock")
![A Voyager heads south shortly after passing through the remains of Beattock station on 27 March 2017. [See image 58903]<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2017]](/images/59000/59972.jpg "Beattock")
![1S42 Euston - Glasgow Central Pendolino passing an undentified Freightliner 66 hauled freight, probably heading for Coatbridge. 5th November 2017.<br>
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<br><br>[David Prescott 05/11/2017]](/images/63000/63368.jpg "Beattock")
![A Virgin Voyager, on 9M53 the 1000hrs Glasgow Central - Birmingham, passing Beattock on 6th November 2017. <br>
<br><br>[David Prescott 06/11/2017]](/images/63000/63414.jpg "Beattock")
