Castle Kennedy
Location type
StationName and dates
Castle Kennedy (1861-1965)Opened on the Portpatrick Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station with a loop on the single track line. The main station building was on the eastbound platform.
There was a goods yard at the west end, north side of the line, approached by reversing from the eastbound platform.
The signal box was on the south side, midway along the loop at the west end of the westbound platform.
In 1942, as part of the preparations for the opening of the new military line to Cairnryan, the line east to Dunragit was doubled to create a long loop. The signal box was replaced with a new structure built into the front of the station building.
The station closed in 1965.
The box closed in 1970. The line east to Dunragit was singled.
The main station building is now a house and the line remains open.
Castle Kennedy House is about a mile to the north. To the north east was Castle Kennedy Airfield, dating from the Second World War.
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 Transit (London Road [Stranraer]) Stranraer Town Dunragit Innermessan Stranraer Challoch Junction Golfers Platform YMCA New Luce Colfin Glenluce Cairn Point Portpatrick Portpatrick Harbour Glenwhilly Chirmorie [Private] | Cairnryan Junction Cairnryan Junction Yard Construction Junction Stockton Haulage Depot [Stranraer] Drumflower Viaduct Stranraer Harbour Junction Stranraer Shed Dunragit Ballast Siding Innermessan Sidings Tourist/other Castle Kennedy House Castle Kennedy Gardens Castle Kennedy [Castle] Lochinch Castle Little Gennoch No 2 Level Crossing Little Gennoch No 1 Level Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/07/1861 | Portpatrick Railway Castle Kennedy, Dunragit and Palnure opened. |
| / /1939 | Portpatrick Railway Dunragit to Castle Kennedy doubled. |
| 14/06/1965 | Portpatrick Railway
Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway Challoch Junction (excluded) to Dumfries (excluded) closed to passengers. Glenluce, Kirkcowan, Newton Stewart, Creetown, Gatehouse of Fleet, New Galloway, Parton and Crossmichael closed. Challoch Junction to Maxwelltown Factory Siding (excluded) closed to all traffic. On the surviving part of the line Castle Kennedy and Dunragit stations closed. |
Books
 Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railways (Library of Railway History) | Rails to Portpatrick (Local History Series) |  The Port Road: Dumfries to Stranraer, Portpatrick, Kirkcudbright and Whithorn |
