Millisle railway station explained

Millisle
Native Name:Millisle for Garlieston[1]
Status:Disused
Borough:Garlieston, Wigtownshire
Country:Scotland
Grid Name:Grid reference
Original:Wigtownshire Railway
Pregroup:Caledonian, Glasgow & South Western, Midland and London North Western Railways
Years:1 March 1903[2]
Events:Opened
Years1:25 September 1950
Events1:Closed to passengers
Years2:1964
Events2:closed completely

Millisle, later Millisle for Garlieston[1] was a railway station that was near the junction for Garlieston 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. The line was closed to passenger services in 1950, and to goods in 1964.

History

The station replaced Garliestontown that lay to the north and opened as a terminus in 1876.[2] A shed was located there which was a combined goods shed and engine shed. A passing loop was present and a single platform at the station.

Regular passenger services ceased on the Garlieston branch on 1 March 1903; Millisle was then renamed as Millisle for Garlieston.[2]

The station master's house survives as a private dwelling named Kilfillan Croft.[3]

Micro-history

A Millisle Road Halt railway station existed on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Donaghadee in Northern Ireland.

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Notes and References

  1. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/63170/details/millisle+station/ RCAHMS
  2. Butt, Page 160
  3. http://www.visitscotland.com/info/accommodation/kilfillan-cottage-p498581 Visit Scotland