Kirkinner | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway |
Country: | Scotland |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Original: | Wigtownshire Railway |
Pregroup: | Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway |
Postgroup: | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
Events1: | Station opened[1] |
Events2: | Station closed |
Kirkinner was a railway station on the Wigtownshire Railway branch line, from Newton Stewart to Whithorn, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. It served a rural area in Wigtownshire. Kirkinner is an area and village, 3 miles from Wigtown, bounded on the east by the bay of Wigtown, along which it extends for about three miles, and on the north by the River Bladnoch.
The Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway was formed from the amalgamation of two railway companies: The Portpatrick Railway and the Wigtownshire Railway, which got into financial difficulties; they merged and were taken over.[2]
A station master's house was provided.[3] In 1908 the station is shown as having a passing loop, a single platform, two sidings, a weighing machine, a ticket office and waiting room, all sitting within a cutting.[4]