Moffat: SLS Scottish Rambler No 3 Railtour leaving Moffat on 29 March 1964 on the short journey back to Beattock behind BR Standard class 4 no 80118. Moffat station had closed to passenger traffic 10 years earlier.
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/03/1964
Moffat
Location type
StationName and dates
Moffat (1883-1954)Opened on the Moffat Railway.
Description
This fine small terminus was at the north end of a short single track branch from Beattock. The line was just under two miles long and opened in 1883. Moffat had been bypassed by the Caledonian Railway when it opened to Beattock in 1847, extended north in 1848. This short branch added Moffat to the railway network.
This was a single platform terminus with very heavily canopied platform. The platform was on the west side with a loop alongside.
There was a goods yard on the east side of the passenger station. The signal box was at the south end of the platform, opening with the station.
Approach to the station was from the south.
The signal box closed in 1922. The station closed to passengers in 1954 and the line closed in 1964.
With the closure of Beattock station in 1972 there is no nearby station today, although the main line remains open as a modern electrified railway.
A short portion of platform survives at Moffat, along with the toilets building, which has been relocated.
Tags
Station terminus01/08/2019
| Nearby stations Auchencastle Beattock Ruttonside [Private] Wamphray Dinwoodie Elvanfoot Victoria Lodge Nethercleugh Crawford Shieldhill Carronbridge Thornhill Crook Lochmaben Leadhills | Beattock Shed Beattock Bank Ballast Quarry Harthope Viaduct Beattock Summit Start of River Clyde Bodsberry Hill Sidings Cottage Bodsberry Viaduct Corncockle Bridge Tourist/other Murthat Signal Box Greskine Signal Box Harthope Signal Box Gray Mare^s Tail Waterfalls Bodsberry Level Crossing Talla Reservoir |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 02/04/1883 | Moffat Railway Moffat branch opened. (Alternative date 02/05/1883.) |
| / /1913 | Caledonian Railway New wider bridge to be installed north of Beattock station crossing main line, Moffat Branch and siding. |
| 06/12/1954 | Moffat Railway Moffat to Beattock (excluded) closed to passengers. |
| 06/04/1964 | Moffat Railway Moffat branch closed. |
