Gretna Green

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Gretna Green (1993-)

Station code: GEA National Rail ScotRail
Where: Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway.
Open on the G and SW Main Line.

Description

This station was a single platform on a single line when opened. It is now a two platform station after the down line was relayed and the existing platform became an up platform only.

This station replaces the older Gretna Green [1st] just to its east.

The line was redoubled in 2008 and fully accessible bridge installed to the new westbound platform.

Tags

Station




Chronology Dates

  /  /1993Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway
Gretna Green station opened on new site slightly further west.
  /  /2007Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway
Project to redouble Annan to Gretna Green (around 8 miles) will cost £35M. Plan to include a second platform at Gretna Green.

News items

22/05/2015Quintinshill rail disaster remembered 100 years on [BBC News]
11/02/2015Anniversary of Quintinshill rail tragedy to be remembered [BBC News]
27/06/2011Memorial for child victims of UK's worst rail crash [BBC News]
26/09/2010UK's worst rail crash at Quintinshill remembered [BBC News]
14/07/2007Upgrade disruption for trains [News and Star]

Books


An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines)

The Glasgow & South Western Railway a History