Garlieston is the closed terminus of the Garlieston branch of Wigtownshire Railway; running from a junction at
Millisle
Millisle or Mill Isle (from Scots ''mill'' + ''isle'', meaning "the meadow of the mill") is a village on the Ards Peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is about south of Donaghadee. It is situated in the townlands of Ballymacruise () ...
. It served the coastal village and harbour of
Garlieston in
Wigtown
Wigtown ( (both used locally); gd, Baile na h-Ùige) is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, within the Dumfries and Galloway region in Scotland. It lies east of Stranraer and south of Newton Stewart. ...
shire. The Garlieston branch, together with the rest of the Wigtownshire Railway, closed completely in 1964.
The Wigtownshire Railway was itself a branch of the
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
The Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint RailwaysThe final word is in the plural. was a network of railway lines serving sparsely populated areas of south-west Scotland. The title appeared in 1885 when the previously independent Portpatrick Rai ...
; running from a junction at to .
Services
The branch opened from Millisle to
Garlieston on 3 April 1876 for both goods and passengers.
[Awdry, Christopher (1990), Page 110.]
Regular passenger services ceased on the Garlieston branch on 1 March 1903.
However, Garlieston had a good
harbour and it occasionally ran boat excursions to the
Isle of Man
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[Casserley, H.C.(1968), pages 165 -168] These were well patronised, so the railway continued to provide excursion trains to Garlieston until 1935.
Goods services ran from Newton Stewart to Whithorn and to Garlieston until the Whithorn branch closed completely on 5 October 1964. By the 1960s, these services ran three days per week; with conditional working on the Garlieston branch, when required.
[Gammell, C.J. (1978)]
See also
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List of closed railway stations in Britain
References
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External links
Disused stations
Disused railway stations in Dumfries and Galloway
Former Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1876
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1903
Railway stations serving harbours and ports in the United Kingdom