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Transport Scotland has rejected pleas for investment in Eastriggs, Thornhill and Beattock stations.
(Permalink) Beattock Eastriggs Thornhill  Eastriggs: Looking west towards Annan over the remains of Dornock (later Eastriggs) station on 17 July 2008. Double track has recently been reinstated at this point as part of the Gretna - Annan redoubling proje ...  Beattock: Crab 2-6-0 no 42737 stands at the up platform in Beattock station on 29 March 1964 with the SLS 'Scottish Rambler No 3' railtour. At the other end of the train standard 2-6-4 tank 80118 is coup ...  Thornhill: Looking north from the former goods yard towards Thornhill station on a cold and frosty 31 January 2006. |
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Hopes that train stations in Beattock, Eastriggs and Thornhill would be included in a review of travel in Scotland were dashed this week.
(Permalink) Beattock Eastriggs Thornhill Eastriggs: Looking west towards Annan over the remains of Dornock (later Eastriggs) station on 17 July 2008. Double track has recently been reinstated at this point as part of the Gretna - Annan redoubling proje ... Thornhill: Looking north from the former goods yard towards Thornhill station on a cold and frosty 31 January 2006.  Beattock: An up express hauled by a Standard Clan Pacific runs through Beattock station in July 1962. Beattock was one of several Caledonian stations designed by notable architect William Tite. |
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Campaign chairman David Formstone believes there is 'strong support' for the move.
(Permalink) Thornhill  Thornhill: Looking across the tracks at the station building at Thornhill after the sun had set on 30 August 2018. Thornhill: Looking north from the former goods yard towards Thornhill station on a cold and frosty 31 January 2006. |
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Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity visited the site of the landslip beneath the railway between Kilmarnock and Dumfries to review progress and thank the teams for their efforts to get the line open again.
(Permalink) Holywood Landslide Michael Matheson River Nith Thornhill |
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Work to repair the landslip beneath the railway between Kilmarnock and Dumfries is now getting underway following damage sustained during Storm Ciara.
(Permalink) Holywood Landslide River Nith Thornhill  Holywood [1st]: The section of line near Holywood in Dumfries & Galloway has been shut since Monday (February 10) after Storm Ciara’s 90mph winds and extreme rainfall caused the nearby River Nith to erode an e ... |
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Emergency work to repair a landslip beneath the railway between Kilmarnock and Dumfries will take a further four weeks.
The line has been shut near Holywood in Dumfries and Galloway since Monday in the wake of Storm Ciara. Heavy rainfall has caused the nearby River Nith to erode an embankment beneath the railway. Following detailed examination Network Rail said the line would need to stay shut until 16 March. Engineers are currently working to repair the 1,700-tonne landslip beneath the 50m (160ft) stretch of track. (Permalink) Holywood Landslide River Nith Thornhill |
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Disruption is expected to last until the end of the day, ScotRail has confirmed.
(Permalink) Holywood Landslide River Nith Thornhill |
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Reversing the 1960s closure of the line is one option being taken forward by a transport study. [Also suggested is re-opening the Cairnryan branch and stations at Cumnock, Thornhill, Eastriggs, Dunragit and Beattock.]
(Permalink) Beattock Cairnryan Cumnock Dunragit Eastriggs Port Road Stranraer Thornhill  Newton Stewart: View east at Newton Stewart in September 1973. The old goods shed and yard on the left of the photograph have been put to alternate use by the local council, still the case 35 years on see image [[155 ...  Big Water of Fleet Viaduct: April 1965, just two months before closure of the 'Port Road' direct line from Dumfries to Stranraer. A Stranraer-bound mixed freight train headed by a Stanier 'Black 5' crosses the Big Water of Fleet ... |
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The head of a transport body has said there is 'great merit' in plans costing up to £37m to reopen three disused stations in south west Scotland.
Andrew Wood chairs the South West Scotland Transport Partnership (Swestrans). It has been looking at the potential of bringing the sites in Beattock, Thornhill and Eastriggs back into use. It said a public consultation had found a 'high level of interest and expectation' in the proposals. (Permalink) Beattock Eastriggs Thornhill  Eastriggs: The former Dornock station (latterly Eastriggs), Dumfriesshire, in 2007. During WW1 the station served the huge wartime munitions complex referred to euphemistically as 'HM Factory, Gretna'. Passenger ...  Thornhill: Thornhill station still retained its canopy in 1989 and had a 'just closed' feel to it despite its closure to passengers in 1965. The stonework has since been painted red and the building rennovated. Beattock: An up express hauled by a Standard Clan Pacific runs through Beattock station in July 1962. Beattock was one of several Caledonian stations designed by notable architect William Tite. |
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A bid is to be made to secure funding to build new railway stations across Dumfries and Galloway.
The local authority said it wanted to tap into a £30m fund set up by the Scottish government. The council's Labour-SNP administration has unveiled plans to seek government funding to establish up to four new local train stops. In order of priority, they could be at Thornhill, Eastriggs, Dunragit/Glenluce and Beattock. (Permalink) Beattock Dunragit Eastriggs Thornhill  Dunragit: 156501 passes the old platform at Dunragit as it draws to a halt in the loop for the token exchange. This covers the next single line section to Glenwhilly. The train is the 1005 Stranraer to Glasgow ... Beattock: An up express hauled by a Standard Clan Pacific runs through Beattock station in July 1962. Beattock was one of several Caledonian stations designed by notable architect William Tite. |
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