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Symington railway station

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in 1864. In the meantime, on 30 November 1863, Symington station was re-sited at the junction, which was to the north of the original site. The new station had three platforms and a turntable. The main line curved from north-west to south through Symington; the line to Broughton and Peebles began at
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In 1904 the station was able to handle all classes of traffic (goods, passengers, parcels, wheeled vehicles, livestock, etc.) and there was a goods crane capable of lifting 2
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also opened on 15 February 1848. Originally, it was situated immediately north of the underbridge carrying the railway over the Biggar Road (present
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The Peebles line closed on 5 June 1950. Symington station was listed for closure in the first Beeching report, and duly closed on 4 January 1965.
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was authorised on 31 July 1845, and the main routes were three lines radiating from a junction at
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opened first, on 10 September 1847; and the remainder opened on 15 February 1848. The station at
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a junction facing Carstairs and ran eastwards then north-eastwards towards the first station at
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The remaining infrastructure at Symington consists of two crossovers 66 
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The station became a junction with the opening of the first section of the
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in Scotland between 1848 and 1965. It was on the main line of the
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The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904
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and for most of its life was the junction for the branch to
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Disused railway station in Symington, South Lanarkshire
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Yonge, John (December 2007) . Jacobs, Gerald (ed.).
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Index

Symington
South Lanarkshire
55°36′30″N 3°36′14″W / 55.6084°N 3.6040°W / 55.6084; -3.6040
Grid reference
NS990361
Caledonian Railway
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Symington
Caledonian Railway
Peebles
Caledonian Railway
Carstairs
Carlisle
Beattock
A72 road
grid reference
NS991358
Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway
Broughton
Peebles
Coulter
long tons
miles
chains
km
Nock 1964
Nock 1964
Lewin 1968

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