Amisfield railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Amisfield


caption =
locale = Scotland
borough = Dumfries and Galloway
line = Caledonian Railway
owner = London Midland and Scottish Railway
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
gridref =
years = 1 September 1863
events = Station opens
years1 = 19 May 1952
events1 = Station closes

Amisfield railway station was a station which served Amisfield, in the Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It was served by trains on a local line which ran between what is now known as the West Coast Main Line at Lockerbie and the Glasgow South Western Line at Dumfries. The latter station is now the nearest to Amisfield.

History

Opened by the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Junction Railway, then part of the Caledonian Railway it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways during the nationalisation of 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board.

The site today

References

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd
year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1

*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0