Penton
Location type
StationName and dates
Penton (1862-1969)Opened on the Border Union Railway (North British Railway).
Description
This was a two platform station with a two storey station building on the southbound platform, signal box at the north end of the same platform and a goods yard on the east side, approached from the north.
There was a coal depot siding with coal drops at the south end, approached from the south, on the east side of the line.
Penton House was to the south.
The signal box was replaced in 1918.
The station closed to goods in 1967. The box closed in 1968. The station and line closed in 1969.
The station building is now a private house.
There were railway cottages about a quarter of a mile north of the station, on the east side of the line. Further north again was the rail served Watleyhirst Quarry.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Canonbie Riddings Junction Nook Pasture Gilnockie Kershopefoot Scotch Dyke Langholm Longtown Newcastleton Lyneside Gretna [NBR] Gretna [CR] Gretna Green [1st] Gretna Green Floriston | Peter^s Crook Siding Canonbie Colliery Liddel Viaduct Moat Quarry Glentarras Siding Tarrasfoot Tile Works Glen Tarras Distillery Tarras Viaduct Longtown Branch Junction Bush-on-Esk Signal Box Bush-on-Esk East Junction Bush-on-Esk West Junction 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.) |
