Millisle railway station

Millisle Millisle for Garlieston
The old railway near Millisle Station
General information
Location	Garlieston, Wigtownshire Scotland
Grid reference	NX463463
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Wigtownshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian, Glasgow & South Western, Midland and London North Western Railways
Key dates
1 March 1903	Opened
25 September 1950	Closed to passengers
1964	closed completely

Millisle, later Millisle for Garlieston was a railway station that was near the junction for Garlieston on the Wigtownshire Railway branch line, from Newton Stewart to Whithorn, 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. A shed was located there which was a combined goods shed and engine shed. A passing loop was present and a single platform at the station.

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

The station master's house survives as a private dwelling named Kilfillan Croft.

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.

Other stations

• Newton Stewart - junction
• Causewayend
• Wigtown
• Kirkinner
• Whauphill
• Sorbie
  • Garlieston
• Broughton Skeog
• Whithorn

References

Notes

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.

External links

• 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
				Broughton Skeog Line and station closed