Amisfield railway station was a station which served

Amisfield Amisfield is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located about 5 miles north of Dumfries and next to the A701 Dumfries to Edinburgh road. The village used to have a railway station Rail transport (also known as train transp ...

, in the Scottish county of

Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway ( sco, Dumfries an Gallowa; gd, Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland and is located in the western Southern Uplands. It covers the counties of Scotland, historic counties of ...

. It was served by trains on a local line which ran between the Caledonian Main Line (now known as the West Coast Main Line) at and the

Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway The Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway was a railway in south west Scotland which linked Castle Douglas in Kirkcudbrightshire to Dumfries. It opened in 1859. Other companies' lines extended westwards and southwards, and the CD&D line formed ...

at . The latter station is now the nearest to Amisfield.

History

Opened by the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway, then part of the Caledonian Railway it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the

Grouping Grouping may refer to: * Muenchian grouping * Principles of grouping * Railways Act 1921, also known as Grouping Act, a reorganisation of the British railway system * Grouping (firearms), the pattern of multiple shots from a sidearm See also ...

of 1923, passing on to the

Scottish Region of British Railways The Scottish Region (ScR) was one of the six regions created on British Railways (BR) and consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and ex-London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) lines in Scotland. It existed from the creation o ...

during the

nationalisation Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...

of 1948. It was then closed by

British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

The site today

Some parts of the platform remain and the station house is now a private residence.

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Station on navigable O.S. map
Disused railway stations in Dumfries and Galloway Former Caledonian Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952 1863 establishments in Scotland 1952 disestablishments in Scotland