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