Garlieston Harbour
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Garlieston HarbourOpened on the Wigtownshire Railway.
Description
The steamer pier at Garlieston was served by a siding, accessed by a turnplate, at the base of the pier. A further siding ran from the turnplate alongside a quay beside Garlieston Mill.
Passengers for the steamers walked from the nearby Garliestown [2nd] station.
Steamers operated to the Isle of Man. These were suspended for the Great War and resumed between 1921 and 1935.
The branch to Garlieston harbour remained open until 1965. Some rails remained embedded in the ground at Garlieston Mill until the 1990s but are now gone.
Local
Garlieston Bay, north of the pier, was busy in the Second World War between 1941 and 1944 with testing and practice assembly of the sections of the 'Mulberry' harbours which were assembled in Normandy following the D-Day landings in 1944. These floating harbours were assembled from nothing on site using components manufactured all over Great Britain and towed across the channel after the beaches had been taken. Some 'Beetle' pontoons, which supported the pier roadways, remain in the north of the bay.
Tags
Pier Second World War06/12/2021
| Nearby stations Garliestown [2nd] Millisle Millisle Exchange Platform Broughton Skeog Sorbie Whithorn Kirkinner Whauphill Wigtown Creetown Causewayend [WR] Mains Crossing Palnure Gatehouse of Fleet Newton Stewart | Garlieston Mill Millisle Shed Sorbie Creamery Bladnoch Siding Lower Bladnoch Viaduct Bladnoch Creamery Kilmabreck Quarry Tourist/other Whithorn Priory and Museum Carsluith Castle Rispain Camp Cairn Holy Chambered Cairns St Ninian^s Chapel Cassencary Quarry Quay Bladnoch Distillery Drumtroddan Standing Stones |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1877 | Wigtownshire Railway Authorisation to build railway to Garlieston Harbour. |
