Stepford (NX864815) was one of the minor request stop stations on the
Cairn Valley Light Railway
The Cairn Valley Light Railway was a rural railway line built to connect Moniaive and other communities in the Cairn Valley with the main railway network at Dumfries. It opened in 1905 but usage was disappointing, and declined further when bus ...
branch from Dumfries. It served a very rural area in Dumfries and Galloway. The line was closed to passengers during the Second World War.
[Awdry, page 64]
History
The CVR was nominally independent, but was in reality controlled by the
Glasgow and South Western Railway
The Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) was a railway company in Scotland. It served a triangular area of south-west Scotland between Glasgow, Stranraer and Carlisle. It was formed on 28 October 1850 by the merger of two earlier railway ...
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[Sanders, page 50] The line was closed to passengers on 3 May 1943, during the Second World War
and to freight on 4 July 1949, and the track lifted in 1953.
The station was very basic with just a short wooden platform with a tin shelter and a siding with a loading bank for goods traffic.
[Kirkpatrick, Page 21] A station master's house was provided, designed by the company with a pyramid roof truncated by a central chimney stack.
[ The shelter had been demolished by 1949.][ The station master's house, a simple cottage, rather than the standard company design, survives as a private dwelling.
Morrington Quarry was nearby and was rail connected, however the contract was lost to a road haulier in around 1943.
The siding was worked by down trains only, goods for Dumfries being taken to the nearest station along. The points were unlocked with an Annett's key that was kept in a locked box on a post adjacent to the point.][Kirkpatrick, Page 91]
Trains were controlled by a 'lock and block' system whereby the trains operated treadles on the single line to interact with the block instruments.[
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See also
* List of closed railway stations in Britain
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References
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* Kirkpatrick, Ian (2000). ''The Cairn Valley Light Railway.'' Usk : The Oakwood Press. .
* Sanders, Keith and Hodgins, Douglas (1995). ''British Railways. Past and Present South West Scotland''. No. 19. .
* Thomas, David St John & Whitehouse, Patrick (1993). ''The Romance of Scotlands Railways''. Newton Abbot : David St John Thomas. .
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Disused railway stations in Dumfries and Galloway
Former Glasgow and South Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1905
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1943