RAILSCOT | Colfin

Colfin

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Colfin (1862-1950)

Opened on the Portpatrick Railway.

Description

This was a single platform station with the platform on the north side of the single track line, just east of a level crossing. A siding, approached from the west, was to the south. This goods yard siding had a loop and cattle pen at the east end. The station building was at the west end.

The platform, particularly its east end, survives. The station building survives in use as a house. To the north is the former Colfin Creamery. The line remained open east to Stranraer Town for goods only until 1959 to serve this. It closed to the west in 1950.

External links

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

Nearby stations Portpatrick Portpatrick Harbour Stranraer Town Stranraer Transit (London Road [Stranraer]) Castle Kennedy Innermessan Dunragit YMCA Challoch Junction Golfers Platform Cairn Point Glenluce New Luce Glenwhilly Chirmorie [Private]	Colfin Creamery Piltanton Viaduct Stranraer Shed Stockton Haulage Depot [Stranraer] Stranraer Harbour Junction Cairnryan Junction Yard Cairnryan Junction Construction Junction Tourist/other Castle of St John [Stranraer] Kirkmadrine Stones Castle Kennedy Gardens Castle Kennedy [Castle] Castle Kennedy House Little Gennoch No 2 Level Crossing Lochinch Castle
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

28/08/1862	Portpatrick Railway Portpatrick to Stranraer opened. New stations at; Colfin and Portpatrick.
06/02/1950	Portpatrick Railway Portpatrick to Stranraer closed to passengers. Portpatrick and Colfin stations closed. Portpatrick to Colfin (excluded) closed to all traffic.
01/04/1959	Portpatrick Railway Colfin to Stranraer Town (excluded) closed to freight.