Gretna | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Near Gretna Green, City of Carlisle |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 54.997°N -3.042°W |
Platforms: | 2 |
Original: | Caledonian Railway |
Postgroup: | LMS |
Years: | 9 September 1847 |
Events: | Opened[1] |
Years1: | 10 September 1951 |
Events1: | Closed |
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).
The station opened on 9 September 1847. 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:
A short distance to the north on the Caledonian Railway are Quintinshill loops, the site of the rail crash in 1915.