Ecclefechan railway station was a station which served the rural area around

Ecclefechan Ecclefechan (Scottish Gaelic: ''Eaglais Fheichein'') is a small village located in Dumfries and Galloway in the south of Scotland. The village is famous for being the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle. Ecclefechan lies in the valley of the Mein Wate ...

, south of Lockerbie in Applegarth parish, Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It was served by local trains on what is now known as the

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. The nearest station for Ecclefechan is now at Lockerbie.

History

Opened by the

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, it became part of the

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during the

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of 1923 and was then closed by British Railways in 1960. The station had a goods shed with a signal box on the platform next to it. Several sidings were present and a minor road to Nether Collinhirst had run through the site.

Accidents and incidents

*On 28 January 1854 an accident occurred near Ecclefechan when a goods train which left Glasgow for Carlisle on the evening of the 27th, was, after repeated mishaps, brought to a stand between the Ecclefechan and Kirtlebridge stations. The train was run into by a passenger train going in the same direction, at from Ecclefechan. The injuries to the passengers were not serious; two ladies suffered slightly, and the driver was hurt when he jumped from the engine of the passenger train, which, as well as the van of the goods train, was badly damaged.Railway Archive
Retrieved : 2012-11-06 *On 21 July 1945, an express passenger train overran signals and was in collision with a freight train that was being shunted. Two people were killed and 31 were injured.

The site today

Trains pass at speed on the electrified

. The station has been demolished, however part of one of the platforms survives.

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Disused railway stations in Dumfries and Galloway Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1960 Former Caledonian Railway stations 1847 establishments in Scotland {{DumfriesGalloway-railstation-stub