Location type

Station

Name and dates

Elvanfoot (1848-1965)

Opened on the Caledonian Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station on the Caledonian Railway main line with interchange for the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch (Caledonian Railway).

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 Branch (Caledonian Railway) opened. 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 station closed in 1965 and the goods yard lines and junction are lifted. A loading bank remains to the west of the station, in the former goods yard.

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