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Loch Skerrow Halt railway station

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423: 37: 232:. With a sparse local population, there was little need for a station, so it closed to regular passengers on 9 September 1963. It remained an unadvertised station and was used occasionally until the line was closed in 1965. 488: 464: 483: 498: 493: 73: 111: 457: 513: 450: 394: 209: 140: 340: 508: 518: 503: 402: 229: 105: 382: 225: 422: 253:, reputedly got off a train here, fearing that he had become the prime suspect in a couple of murders in London. 36: 224:. It had a siding and a signal box. The purpose of the station was to split the signalling section between 430: 245: 205: 59: 320: 275: 434: 221: 293: 240: 341:"A tunnel linking Scotland and Northern Ireland? Fantasy has replaced British modesty" 477: 345: 250: 279: 88: 75: 336: 272:
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The station was opened as a public station on 13 June 1955 by
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Former Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway stations
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Disused railway station in Skerrow, Dumfries and Galloway
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Skerrow
Dumfries and Galloway
54°59′22″N 4°10′27″W / 54.9895°N 4.1743°W / 54.9895; -4.1743
Grid reference
NX609682
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
Skerrow
Dumfries and Galloway
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
British Railways
New Galloway
Gatehouse of Fleet
Richard Hannay
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
OCLC
931112387
"Loch Skerrow Halt"


Dumfries & Galloway Curiosities by David Carroll
Jack, Ian
"A tunnel linking Scotland and Northern Ireland? Fantasy has replaced British modesty"
The Guardian
New Galloway
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
Gatehouse of Fleet
Stub icon
Dumfries and Galloway council area

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