Bankhead | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Bankhead, South Lanarkshire |
Country: | Scotland |
Platforms: | 1 |
Original: | Caledonian Railway |
Postgroup: | LNER |
Events: | Opened |
Years1: | 12 September 1932 |
Events1: | Closed |
Years2: | 17 July 1933 |
Events2: | Reopened |
Events3: | Closed permanently |
Bankhead railway station served the isolated settlement of Bankhead, east of Carstairs Junction in South Lanarkshire, Scotland from 1867 to 1945 on the Dolphinton branch.
The station opened in November 1867 by the Caledonian Railway. To the north was a goods yard with one siding. A signal box was built in 1887 which closed in 1934. The station closed on 12 September 1932 but reopened on 17 July 1933, only to close again on 4 June 1945.[1]