Millisle railway station

Millisle
Millisle for Garlieston^[1]
The old railway near Millisle Station
Location
Place	Garlieston
Area	Wigtownshire
Grid reference	NX463463
Operations
Original company	Wigtownshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian, Glasgow & South Western, Midland and London North Western Railways
History
1 March 1903^[2]	Opened
25 September 1950^[2]	Closed to passengers
1964	closed completely
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Millisle or Millisle for Garlieston^[1] was a railway station that was near the junction for Garlieston on the Wigtownshire Railway branch line, from Newton Stewart, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. It served a rural area in Wigtownshire. The line was closed to passenger services in 1950, and to goods in 1964.

History

The station replaced Garliestontown that lay to the north and opened as a terminus in 1876.^[2] A shed was located here which was a combined goods shed and engine shed. A passing loop was present and a single platform at the station.^[3]

Regular passenger services ceased on the Garlieston branch on 1 March 1903; Millisle was then renamed as Millisle for Garlieston.^[2]

The station master's house survives as a private dwelling named Kilfillan Croft.^[4]

Micro-history

A Millisle Road Halt railway station existed on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Donaghadee in Northern Ireland.

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References

Notes

1 2 RCAHMS Retrieved : 2013-01-11
1 2 3 4 Butt, Page 160
↑ RailScot Retrieved : 2013-01-11
↑ Visit Scotland Retrieved : 2013-01-11

Sources

Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.

External links

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Disused stations

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Sorbie Line and station closed		Caledonian, Glasgow & South Western, Midland and London North Western Railways Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway		Garlieston Line and station closed
Sorbie Line and station closed				Broughton Skeog Line and station closed

Coordinates: 54°47′18″N 4°23′30″W / 54.7884°N 4.3916°W / 54.7884; -4.3916

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