Buittle

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Buittle (1862-1894)

Opened on the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway.

Description

This station was also known as Buittle Mill, Buittle Halt and Buittle Mill Halt. It opened shortly after the line. It had a station building on a single platform and a siding. Services were limited calling on Wednesdays only with one train each way.

The siding was closed in 1874. The line was doubled in 1894 and station closed and demolished. Surfacemens' cottages were located south of the line at the station site but are now gone.

The station was directly east of a now removed bridge over a minor road south of Milton of Buittle.

Tags

Station

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map


Chronology Dates

  /  /1894Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway
Buittle station closed on doubling of line between Dalbeattie and Castle Douglas.

Books


The Port Road: Dumfries to Stranraer, Portpatrick, Kirkcudbright and Whithorn