Gretna railway station (Caledonian Railway)

Former railway station in Cumbria, England

Gretna railway station was a railway station close to Gretna Green in Scotland. The Caledonian Railway, however, built the station just south of Gretna Junction and the England/Scotland border, in Cumberland (now Cumbria).

History

The station opened on 9 September 1847.^[1] It closed on 10 September 1951.^[1]

Very little remains of the station in 2008.

The Caledonian Railway station was one of three serving Gretna, the others being:

• Gretna built by Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway in 1848 (successor station open)
• Gretna built by the Border Union Railway in 1861, closing in 1915.

A short distance to the north on the Caledonian Railway are Quintinshill loops, the site of the rail crash in 1915.

References

Notes

1. Butt (1995), page 110

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.
• 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.
• Gretna (Caledonian) railway station on navigable OS map