Elvanfoot
Location type
StationName and dates
Elvanfoot (1848-1965)Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Caledonian Railway.
Opened on the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station on the Caledonian Railway main line with interchange for the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway.
The line remains open, the station is closed.
The original station featured two quite short platforms with a goods yard on the down side (west side) approached from the north.
The platforms were lengthened and goods yard expanded. A larger station building was provided on the down platform and a siding laid down the rear of the up platform, accessed from the south.
It became a junction when the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway opened in 1902. Although the line approached from the south, this connected to the line in the goods yard at the north end of the station. A siding was laid in behind the down platform at the south end of the station to provide an exchange platform.
The signal box was replaced in 1916, a box with the platform side corners cut off to create a six sided building, a striking appearance also used at Carstairs.
The Wanlockhead line closed in 1939. The station closed in 1965 and box in 1972.
The goods yard lines and junction are lifted. A loading bank remains to the west of the station, in the former goods yard.
Elvanfoot Viaduct is to the north of the former station.
Tags
Station junctionExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
01/08/2020
| Nearby stations Crawford Abington Leadhills Glengonnar Wanlockhead Ruttonside [Private] Lamington Victoria Lodge Auchencastle Carronbridge Moffat Crook Sanquhar Symington [1st] Douglas West | Elvanfoot Viaduct Bodsberry Viaduct Bodsberry Hill Elvan Water Viaduct Start of River Clyde Crawford Viaduct [Camps Reservoir Railway] Crawford Viaduct Beattock Summit Risping Cleuch Viaduct Leadhills Shed Leadhills Washing Mill Wilson^s Shaft Tourist/other Bodsberry Level Crossing Crawford Castle Camps Reservoir |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 15/02/1848 | Caledonian Railway Beattock to Glasgow (Townhead) (via the Wishaw and Coltness Railway and the Glasgow, Garnkirk and Coatbridge Railway) and Edinburgh (Lothian Road) branch opened. The stations at Abington and Elvanfoot, on its main line, are used by the lead mines and villages at Leadhills and Wanlockhead. |
| 01/10/1901 | Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway (Caledonian Railway) Elvanfoot to Leadhills opened. (Alternative date 5/10/1901). |
| / /1907 | Caledonian Railway Permission to stop up level crossing at Elvanfoot station. |
| 02/01/1939 | Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway (Caledonian Railway) Wanlockhead to Elvanfoot closed to all traffic. |
| 04/01/1965 | Caledonian Railway Thankerton, Symington [2nd], Lamington, Abington, Crawford, Elvanfoot closed. |
