Langholm
Location type
StationName and dates
Langholm (1864-1964)Station code: LHL National Rail
Opened on the Langholm Branch (North British Railway).
Description
This terminus was a single platform station, with a loop south of the platform. The station building was of two storeys with a small timber trainshed over the platform, a locomotive shed on the east side and goods yard with goods shed on the west side. The signal box (1894) was at the south end of the station on the east side of the line.
The signal box closed in 1927, replaced with a ground frame and block instruments in the station building. The locomotive shed closed in 1932.
The station closed to passengers in 1964 and the line closed completely in 1967.
Nothing remains of the station but there is memorial cairn to mark the site. The site is given over to housing and a car park.
Tags
Station terminus
| Nearby stations Gilnockie Canonbie Penton Riddings Junction Nook Pasture Kershopefoot Newcastleton Scotch Dyke Longtown Kirkpatrick Gretna Green [1st] Gretna Green Gretna [NBR] Gretna [CR] Kirtlebridge | Glen Tarras Distillery Tarras Viaduct Tarrasfoot Tile Works Glentarras Siding Canonbie Colliery Peter^s Crook Siding Liddel Viaduct Moat Quarry Hermitage Viaduct Longtown Branch Junction Quintinshill Loops Mains Ballast Quarry Tourist/other Canonbie Colliery Signal Box Liddel Strength DLO Smalmstown |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/07/1862 | Border Union Railway (North British Railway) The line from Edinburgh Waverley to Carlisle Citadel via Galashiels and Hawick [2nd] is completed. The line opened from Hawick [2nd] to Scotch Dyke. Stations opened at Hawick [2nd], Barnes, Shankend, Riccarton, Steele Road, Newcastleton, Kershope Foot, Penton, Riddings Junction (and Canonbie on the incomplete Langholm branch). (Alternative date 01/08/1862.) |
| 15/06/1964 | Langholm Branch (North British Railway) Langholm to Riddings Junction closed to passengers. |
| 18/09/1967 | Langholm Branch (North British Railway) Langholm to Riddings Junction (excluded) closed to freight. |
