Auchencastle railway station

Auchencastle
Location	Dumfries and Galloway Scotland
Coordinates	55°19′31″N 3°28′23″W / 55.3252°N 3.4731°W / 55.3252; -3.4731Coordinates: 55°19′31″N 3°28′23″W / 55.3252°N 3.4731°W / 55.3252; -3.4731
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Caledonian Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
3 January 1900	Station opens[1]
After 1926	Station close[1]

Auchencastle railway station was a private station which served , near Beattock, in the Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It was used by railwaymen and families and was served by local trains on what is now known as the West Coast Main Line. The nearest station for Auchencastle is now at Lockerbie.

History[]

Opened by the Caledonian Railway,^[1] it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923 and was then closed by that company.

The site today[]

Trains pass at speed on the electrified West Coast Main Line but there is no station at the site now.

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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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• RAILSCOT on Caledonian Railway
• Auchencastle station on navigable OS map

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