Carronbridge
Location type
StationNames and dates
Carron Bridge (1851-1871)Carronbridge (1871-1953)
Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station just north of the River Carron Viaduct. The main station building was on the southbound platform.
It had a goods yard to the south, on the east side, approached from the south. The signal box was on the east side of the line at the south end, where the yard sidings came off the southbound line.
The station was quite some way from Carronbridge, around two miles to the south.
The goods yard and passenger station closed in 1953. However the sidings remained until the early 1970s.
The station closed in 1953 and the box in 1983.
The station building remains, in use as a house. the platforms have been removed. Railway cottages remain and there is a new house on the site of the goods shed.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Thornhill Closeburn Wanlockhead Glengonnar Leadhills Sanquhar Kirkland Crossford Moniaive Auldgirth Dunscore Ruttonside [Private] Elvanfoot Kirkconnel Auchencastle | Carron Water Viaduct Gill Water Viaduct Drumlanrig Tunnel Carronhill Glen (Newlands) Viaduct Enterkin Burn Viaduct Priestcrown Wood Embankment Gatelawbridge Quarry Newton Quarry Cample Water Viaduct Cample Mill Closeburn Quarry Signal Box Mennock Sidings Tourist/other Morton Castle Drumlanrig Castle Ardoch Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1851 | Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway Carron Bridge station opened. |
Books
 An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways |  Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines) |  The Glasgow & South Western Railway a History |
