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Glasgow, Dumfries And Carlisle Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Kirkconnel looking north. The signalbox here remains open but was switched out on this occasion. A railway served coalmine existed to the right hand side.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2414.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![South of Mennock looking south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2418.jpg "Mennock")
![Locomotive in ornamental gardens to the south of Portrack Viaduct (on short section of disconnected private track).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2571.jpg "Portrack Viaduct")
![Old (left) and new (right) viaducts at Portrack. The line was re-aligned slightly north of the original and a new viaduct built. The portion of the old viaduct is kept in ornamental gardens.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2579.jpg "Portrack Viaduct")
![Brackenhill Junction, junction for the former Catrine Branch.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7202.jpg "Brackenhill Junction")
![This site of the junction for the Barony complex of mine and powerstation.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7203.jpg "Barony Junction")
![Depot at Eastriggs seen from the air. The G&SW mainline runs from top middle to bottom left and the sidings can be seen coming off from the bottom left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/13000/13942.jpg "Eastriggs")
![A J Manson Class 381 of LMS at Annan some time in the late 1920s. Built for the G&SWR in 1910 as No 120, it was renumbered 506 in 1919. It was withdrawn by the LMS in 1931<br><br>[Graham Morgan Collection //]](/images/18000/18082.jpg "Annan")
![<I>Jubilee</I> 4-6-0 no 45593 <I>Kolhapur</I> heads north through Drumlanrig Gorge between Enterkinfoot and Sanquhar in the 1960s. [See image 32746]<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/21000/21886.jpg "Drumlanrig Gorge")
![Standard and Black 5 locomotives double head a southbound train through Drumlanrig Gorge in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/23000/23902.jpg "Drumlanrig Gorge")
![Kingmoor Black 5 no 45236 takes a northbound train through Drumlanrig Gorge, flanked by flowering Rosebay Willowherb, on a Summers day in the mid 1960s. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/26000/26494.jpg "Drumlanrig Gorge")
![A down train passing through Drumlanrig Gorge north of Enterkinfoot in the 1960s. The locomotive is thought to be <I>Jubilee</I> 4-6-0 no 45593 <I>Kolhapur</I> [see image 21886].<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/32000/32746.jpg "Drumlanrig Gorge")
![A Jubilee at the south end of Dumfries. View is south west from the locomotive shed yard towards the goods yard, complete with a line of 'stored' steam locomotives.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/45000/45189.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Glasgow St Enoch - Carlisle stopping train calls at Cumnock in the early 1960s behind an unidentified <I>Clan</I> Pacific. [Ref query 21355]<br><br>[John Furnevel Collection //]](/images/53000/53466.jpg "Cumnock")
![An unidentified Brush Type 4 brings the 1425 Stranraer Harbour - Newcastle Central through the closed station at Carronbridge. Thought to have been taken in the early 1970s. [Ref query 47971]<br><br>[Bruce McCartney Collection //]](/images/55000/55736.jpg "Carronbridge")
![A diverted Anglo-Scottish service comes off Carronbridge Viaduct northbound during WCML electrification work in the early 1970s. The train is headed by a pair of EE class 50 locomotives which will have taken over at Crewe.<br><br>[Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/57000/57001.jpg "Carronbridge")
![Black 5 44723 approaching New Cumnock with a St Enoch - Carlisle train on 29 July 1961. Bank Junction is visible in the background. [Ref query 1047]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //]](/images/59000/59596.jpg "New Cumnock")
![46140 crosses Sanquhar viaduct with Carlisle to Glasgow local.<br><br>[John Robin 02//]](/images/7000/7167.jpg "Sanquhar")
![The station at Carronbridge circa 1940.<br><br>[Ian Steele Collection //1940]](/images/22000/22171.jpg "Carronbridge")
![The station house at Carronbridge seen in 1940 during Tom Steele's spell here as Station Master. [Editor's note: His son Ian, who was kind enough to provide the old photographs, was born here during that year.]<br><br>[Ian Steele Collection //1940]](/images/22000/22205.jpg "Carronbridge")
![Approaching Carronbridge. <i>Down</i> Express. 5X 4.6.0 5729.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1941]](/images/15000/15447.jpg "Carronbridge")
![Driver J. McCreadie. Fireman John Shields. Dumfries 1941.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1941]](/images/15000/15448.jpg "Dumfries")
![Ex-LNWR Webb 2-4-2T 46635 at Dumfries shortly after sunrise on 18 April 1949 with the Lockerbie push-pull train. The 1892 veteran was finally withdrawn in April 1950 from Dumfries shed, the roof of which can be seen above St Mary's Street road bridge in the background. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/04/1949]](/images/57000/57079.jpg "Dumfries")
![Looking over Annan station towards Dumfries in the summer of 1955.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 11/07/1955]](/images/31000/31280.jpg "Annan")
![The up Sunday <I>Thames-Clyde Express</I> at Dumfries on 15 July 1956. Black 5 44669 is piloting Royal Scot 46113 <I>Cameronian</I>. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1956]](/images/56000/56258.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Sunday relief to the up <I>Thames-Clyde Express</I> runs past Dumfries South goods yard shortly after leaving the station on 15 July 1956. Locomotive in charge is Corkerhill Jubilee 45711 <I>Courageous</I>. [Ref query 7 March 2018]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1956]](/images/63000/63124.jpg "Dumfries")
![One of Dumfries shed's <I>Jumbo</I> 0-6-0s no 57349 stands in the bay in the summer of 1956 with a local train for Kirkcudbright.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/56000/56311.jpg "Dumfries")
![Jubilee 45562 <I>Alberta</I> approaching Dumfries on 16 July 1956 with the 4pm train from St Enoch. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/56000/56562.jpg "Dumfries")
![A down freight runs through Dumfries on 16 July 1956 hauled by BR Standard class 3 2-6-0 77018.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/57000/57010.jpg "Dumfries")
![Royal Scot 46145 <I>The Duke of Wellington's Regt. (West Riding)</I> with the down 'Thames Clyde Express' at Dumfries on 16 July 1956.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/58000/58178.jpg "Dumfries")
![40920 in a bay platforms at Dumfries in April 1958. The former Caledonian goods shed on the left looks over the station.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 15/04/1958]](/images/23000/23370.jpg "Dumfries")
![Running through the middle road at Dumfries on 13 June 1959 is ex-Great North of Scotland Railway 4-4-0 No 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I>. The locomotive has just arrived back in the station following a visit to Dumfries shed for refreshment, having earlier brought in the SLS <I>Golden Jubilee Special</I> from Buchanan Street. No 49 will shortly rejoin the train for the return journey to Glasgow, where the railtour will terminate at St Enoch station. The top of Dumfries shed can be seen in the left background on the south side of St Mary's Street road bridge. [See image 30151]<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /06/1959]](/images/33000/33959.jpg "Dumfries")
![Scene in Dumfries shed yard on 13 June 1959 with special guest ex-Great North of Scotland Railway 4-4-0 No 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I>. The locomotive was preparing to head for St Enoch with the returning SLS <I>Golden Jubilee Special</I>, which had originated that morning from Buchanan Street.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /06/1959]](/images/36000/36561.jpg "Dumfries")
![Ex-Caledonian 0-6-0s 57302 and 57623 stand in the shed yard at Dumfries on 13 June 1959.<br>
<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/06/1959]](/images/26000/26789.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![Ex-Great North of Scotland Railway 4-4-0 No 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I>, with 5 coaches plus observation car, stands on the centre road at Dumfries on 13 June 1959. The train is the SLS <I>Golden Jubilee Special</I> originating from Glasgow Buchanan Street, which had arrived tender-first via the Dumfries Lochmaben and Lockerbie line.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/06/1959]](/images/29000/29110.jpg "Dumfries")
![Ex-Great North of Scotland Railway 4-4-0 No 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I> poses on Dumfries shed on 13 June 1959. The locomotive had arrived on the SLS <I>Golden Jubilee Special</I> from Buchanan Street and would shortly return north with the train, finishing the tour at St Enoch.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/06/1959]](/images/30000/30151.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![No 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I> with former <i>Devon Belle</i> observation car SC281 at Dumfries on 13 June 1959 during the visit by the SLS <I>Golden Jubilee Special</i> from Glasgow. Dumfries shed stands on the other side of St Mary's Street road bridge.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/06/1959]](/images/30000/30211.jpg "Dumfries")
![Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 no 45169 stands in the shed yard at Dumfries on 13 June 1959 sporting a 68B shedplate. In the right background is another Dumfries resident, Caley 'Jumbo' 0-6-0 no 57362. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/06/1959]](/images/37000/37328.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![The north end of Dumfries on 13 June 1959 with ex-Great North of Scotland Railway 4-4-0 No 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I> following arrival with the SLS <I>Golden Jubilee Special</I> from Buchanan Street. The building on the hill is the remains of the old 'lighthouse' signal box, now sadly demolished. [See image 3568]<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 13/06/1959]](/images/38000/38870.jpg "Dumfries")
![Locally based Black 5 no 45480 prepares to take a freight out of Dumfries south yard around 1960. <br><br>[Gordon Smith Collection (Courtesy Ken Browne) //1960]](/images/26000/26717.jpg "Dumfries")
![A visit to Dumfries on 26 August 1960. View north over the shed yard with the G&SW main line running past on the left. Locomotives on shed that day included Black 5s, 2P 4-4-0s and ex-Caledonian 0-6-0s. Dumfries shed finally closed in May 1966. [See image 3570] <br><br>[David Stewart 26/08/1960]](/images/45000/45714.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![McIntosh 3F 0-6-0T 56302 on shed at Dumfries on 26 August 1960. [Ref query 9418]<br><br>[David Stewart 26/08/1960]](/images/45000/45957.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![Hurlford 2P 40686 pilots Holbeck Royal Scot 45113 <I>Cameronian</I> with the up <I>Thames Clyde Express</I> southbound between Mennock and Drumlanrig in August 1960. [Ref Query 15530]<br><br>[David Stewart 26/08/1960]](/images/46000/46200.jpg "Mennock")
![40686 waits in one of the bays at Dumfries with a Glasgow train on 26 August 1960. The 4-4-0 had earlier worked south as pilot to Royal Scot 46113 on the <I>Thames-Clyde Express</I> from St Enoch. [See image 47951]<br><br>[David Stewart 26/08/1960]](/images/48000/48150.jpg "Dumfries")
![Crab 2-6-0 no 42913 passing Dumfries shed with a southbound goods on 26 August 1960.<br><br>[David Stewart 26/08/1960]](/images/48000/48196.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![Hurlford based class 2P 4-4-0 no 40686 at Dumfries in 1961, the year of its withdrawal.<br><br>[David Stewart //1961]](/images/46000/46694.jpg "Dumfries")
![An unidentified <I>Crab</I> stands in the shed yard at Dumfries circa 1961.<br><br>[David Stewart //1961]](/images/47000/47028.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![Class 2P 4-4-0 no 40686 at Dumfries in 1961. Note the buffer beam semaphore route indicator set for Glasgow via Kilmarnock and Barrhead. <br><br>[David Stewart //1961]](/images/47000/47319.jpg "Dumfries")
![Black 5 45467 approaching Sanquhar on 15 July 1961 with a down freight. [Ref query 9929]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/56000/56141.jpg "Sanquhar")
![A busy summer Saturday at the north end of Dumfries on 15 July 1961. On the left is 'Peak' D18, some 7 months old at that time, with a down Leeds service. In the centre is Dumfries Black 5 45480 with a stoppping train for Stranraer, while on the right Hurlford based sister locomotive 45010 waits to depart with a Glasgow local.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/56000/56491.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Blackpool - Glasgow train crossing the 1849 Martinton Bridge over the Nith north of Dumfries station on a summer Saturday in 1961. The locomotive is Patriot Class 4-6-0 45507 <I>Royal Tank Corps</I>. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/56000/56688.jpg "Martinton Bridge")
![Three railwaymen, a friend, a boy, a dog and a historic old signal box. Posed portrait (names unknown) at the north end of Dumfries station in the summer of 1961. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/57000/57317.jpg "Dumfries")
![A 'Peak' hauled Anglo-Scottish service southbound at Ardoch, midway between Sanquhar and Carronbridge, in the summer of 1961, with the River Nith off to the left. The train is the 1600 Glasgow St Enoch – Leeds City and is displaying an incorrect reporting code, which should read 1N63. [Ref query 165] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/57000/57321.jpg "Ardoch")
![A Black 5 southbound passing Ardoch, on the GSW route between Sanquhar and Carronbridge, on a miserable July day in 1961, with a Glasgow St Enoch - Leeds City service. [Ref query 439]. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/57000/57760.jpg "Ardoch")
![Black 5 45010 pauses at Closeburn in July 1961 with a Dumfries - Glasgow train. [Ref query 783]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/58000/58163.jpg "Closeburn")
![Black 5 45480 gets underway from Dumfries on 15 July 1961 with a Saturday local service for Stranraer. [See image 56491] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/59000/59513.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Glasgow - Manchester train crosses Martinton Bridge over the River Nith in the summer of 1961 on the northern approach to Dumfries station. Polmadie Black 5 no 45172 is in charge. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/60000/60031.jpg "Martinton Bridge")
![Stanier Pacific 46224 <I>Princess Alexandra</I> crossing the Nith at Dumfries on 15 July 1961 with a parcels train heading for St Enoch.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/61000/61318.jpg "Dumfries")
![Jubilee 45710 <I>Irresistible</I> of Newton Heath shed takes a Saturday Manchester - Glasgow train north away from the Dumfries stop on 15 July 1961. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/61000/61865.jpg "Dumfries")
![Corkerhill based Jubilee 45621 <I>Northern Rhodesia</I> heading home after leaving Dumfries on Saturday 15 July 1961 with a down Leeds relief. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1961]](/images/63000/63002.jpg "Dumfries")
![Black 5 44675 approaching Dumfries on 16 July 1961 with a St Enoch - Carlisle semi-fast.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1961]](/images/58000/58952.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Dumfries - St Enoch train calls at Sanquhar on 16 July 1961 behind Black 5 45010. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1961]](/images/62000/62176.jpg "Sanquhar")
![A summer Saturday Blackpool - Glasgow Central express crossing Templand Viaduct, Cumnock, on 29 July 1961 behind Jubilee 45584 <I>North West Frontier</I>. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/07/1961]](/images/56000/56814.jpg "Cumnock")
![Kingmoor Black 5 45081 approaching Cumnock from the south in the summer of 1961 at the head of a Glasgow bound express. [Ref query 901] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/07/1961]](/images/58000/58356.jpg "Cumnock")
![An up freight from Falkland Yard approaching Cumnock on 29 July 1961. The locomotive in charge is Standard class 5 4-6-0 73123. [Ref query 8 September 2017] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/07/1961]](/images/60000/60692.jpg "Cumnock")
!['Peak' type 4 no D11 is about to pass the site of Polquhap siding on 29 July 1961 at the head of a St Enoch - Leeds City train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/07/1961]](/images/60000/60722.jpg "Polquhap Siding")
![A parcels train runs through New Cumnock on 29 July 1961 behind <I>Crab</I> 2-6-0 42831. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/07/1961]](/images/60000/60991.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45673 <I>Keppel</I> runs north through New Cumnock on 29 July 1961 at the head of a Birmingham - Glasgow express. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/07/1961]](/images/63000/63582.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The north end of Dumfries station in September 1961 sees Jubilee 45621 <I>Northern Rhodesia</I> busy splitting up a recently arrived parcels train.<br><br>[David Stewart 05/09/1961]](/images/45000/45754.jpg "Dumfries")
![2P 4-4-0 no 40670 on station pilot duty at the north end of Dumfries on 5 September 1961. Note the signal boxes, ancient and modern, in the left background and the vans in the high level goods yard on the right.<br><br>[David Stewart 05/09/1961]](/images/46000/46460.jpg "Dumfries")
![40670 about to remove the empty stock of the 3.40pm ex-Stranraer from a sunny Dumfries station on 5 September 1961. [See image 46460] <br><br>[David Stewart 05/09/1961]](/images/46000/46885.jpg "Dumfries")
![Patriot class no 45527 <I>Southport</I> on a Carlisle - Glasgow stopping train calls at Annan around 1963. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1963]](/images/29000/29627.jpg "Annan")
![Rebuilt Patriot 4-6-0 no 45527 <I>Southport</I> about to leave Annan with a stopping train for Glasgow. The locomotive spent its final days at Kingmoor, having arrived there in 1963, the year this photograph is thought to have been taken. Withdrawal by BR came towards the end of the following year, with the locomotive eventually cut up at Arnott Young, Troon, in early 1965.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1963]](/images/29000/29913.jpg "Annan")
![J72 0-6-0T 68750 stored awaiting disposal at Dumfries, thought to be in 1963. Officially withdrawn from here at the end of 1962, the locomotive was eventually cut up in the yard of Messrs McWiliams at Shettleston in February 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray //1963]](/images/49000/49122.jpg "Dumfries")
![A misty morning at Dumfries in late 1963 sees J72 0-6-0T 68750 stored awaiting disposal. Withdrawn at the end of 1962, the locomotive was later transferred to the yard of Messrs McWiliams at Shettleston, where it was cut up in February 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray //1963]](/images/54000/54240.jpg "Dumfries")
![57661 stands in the shed yard at Dumfries in April 1963.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/04/1963]](/images/23000/23260.jpg "Dumfries")
![Class J72 no 68750 stored out of use awaiting disposal in sidings at Dumfries in April 1963.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/04/1963]](/images/23000/23881.jpg "Dumfries")
![McIntosh 0-6-0T no 56302 stored in sidings alongside Dumfries shed awaiting disposal in April 1963.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/04/1963]](/images/24000/24402.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![The SLS/BLS Easter Special Railtour (Scottish Rambler No 2) of 12-15 April 1963 arriving in the north bays at Dumfries on the last day of the tour. Jubilee 45588 <I>Kashmir</I> of 12A Kingmoor has just brought the train off the Dumfries Lochmaben & Lockerbie line having taking charge for the Carlisle - Lockerbie - Dumfries - Castle Douglas leg.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 15/04/1963]](/images/21000/21306.jpg "Dumfries")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76073 in the shed yard at Dumfries in April 1963 [see image 3570]. <br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1963]](/images/32000/32511.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![The east side of the shed yard at Dumfries, photographed on 15 April 1963 [see image 3407].<br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1963]](/images/33000/33508.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![View south from St Mary's Road Bridge, Dumfries, through a window at the rear of Dumfries shed. Photographed in April 1963, some 3 years prior to closure.<br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1963]](/images/34000/34726.jpg "Dumfries Shed")
![Jubilee no 45588 <I>Kashmir</I> stands in the bay at the north end of Dumfries in April 1963 with the SLS/BLS <i>Scottish Rambler No.2</i> Joint Easter Rail Tour. The Jubilee has just brought in the train from Lockerbie via Lochmaben, having taken charge from Carlisle.<br><br>[K A Gray 15/04/1963]](/images/35000/35256.jpg "Dumfries")
![A busy scene at the north end of Dumfries on 15 April 1963. Photograph taken from a window of <I>Scottish Rambler No 2</I> which is waiting to enter the station off the Lockerbie branch behind Jubilee 45588 <I>Kashmir</I>. The hold up is to allow the passage of a London relief, approaching the station in the background behind another Jubilee 45659 <I>Drake</I>. Standing alongside the special is 78026, the Dumfries station pilot.<br><br>[John Robin 15/04/1963]](/images/49000/49612.jpg "Dumfries Goods Junction")
![B1 4-6-0 no 61134 at Mauchline in September 1963 with an Ayr to Catrine goods. [See image 35114]<br><br>[John Robin 30/09/1963]](/images/6000/6966.jpg "Mauchline")
![76073 passes 46249 on Carlisle train at Mauchline as night falls.<br><br>[John Robin 30/09/1963]](/images/6000/6967.jpg "Mauchline")
![46132 at Mauchline with southbound parcels.<br><br>[John Robin 30/09/1963]](/images/8000/8245.jpg "Mauchline")
![Looking north from Dumfries in 1965 with a Peak - hauled service (possibly the <I>Thames-Clyde Express</I>) pulling away from the platform. [See image 39421]<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1965]](/images/25000/25943.jpg "Dumfries")
![42739 in loop at New Cumnock while 44796 heads north.<br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/7000/7162.jpg "New Cumnock")
![70005 south of Kirkconnel with up van train<br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/7000/7166.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![Crab 2-6-0 42739 with a PW train meets an unidentified Black 5 hauling a freight along the Nith Valley near New Cumnock troughs during a misty spring morning in 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/45000/45437.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The signal box to the north of Kirkconnel station in April 1965, with the rail served Fauldhead Colliery beyond. [See image 40175]<br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/46000/46531.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![Britannia Pacific 70005 <I>John Milton</I> with an up van train at Kirkconnel in April 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/48000/48577.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![Looking east from the A76 road bridge at New Cumnock on 2 April 1965, with the station behind the camera. Black 5 45235 on an up parcels train meets classmate 44796 with a freight. [Ref query 14931] <br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/49000/49019.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Black 5 45124 gets a signal check at Sanquhar on 2 April 1965 with a northbound freight.<br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/49000/49662.jpg "Sanquhar")
![Platform view north through Kirkconnel station on 2 April 1965. On the right beyond the fence are the exchange sidings serving Fauldhead Colliery, the junction for which stands between the end of the up platform and the signal box. Fauldhead Colliery closed in 1968 [see image 33171].<br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/49000/49844.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![Black 5 45235 climbing to Polquhap Summit south of Cumnock on 2 April 1965 with a parcels train. <br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/50000/50187.jpg "Cumnock")
![Holbeck Jubilee 45660 <I>Rooke</I> calls at Dumfries on a wet 24 July 1965 with a down relief to the <I>Thames Clyde Express</I>.<br><br>[John Robin 24/07/1965]](/images/46000/46212.jpg "Dumfries")
![The ex-Highland Railway Jones Goods 4-6-0 at Dumfries on a Branch Line Society tour from Glasgow in October 1965. From here the train took the DLLR route to Lockerbie before returning to Glasgow via the West Coast Main Line.<br><br>[G W Robin 17/10/1965]](/images/21000/21342.jpg "Dumfries")
![The preserved ex-Highland Railway Jones Goods 4-6-0 no 103 stands at the up platform at Dumfries with a BLS railtour from Glasgow on 17 October 1965. [See image 21342]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 17/10/1965]](/images/28000/28463.jpg "Dumfries")
![A BLS railtour from Glasgow at Dumfries on 17 October 1965 behind preserved ex-Highland Railway Jones Goods 4-6-0 no 103.<br><br>[G W Robin 17/10/1965]](/images/46000/46235.jpg "Dumfries")
![The 1325 Glasgow - Morecambe, photographed on 6th August 1966 near Kirkconnel behind a pair of Black 5s.<br><br>[Colin Miller 06/08/1966]](/images/25000/25237.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![The 0925 Blackpool - Glasgow of 6 August 1966 behind Black 5 no 44778 which seems to be a Blackpool locomotive (24E) seen just north of Kirkconnel.<br><br>[Colin Miller 06/08/1966]](/images/25000/25242.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![A down <I>Thames - Clyde Express</I> Saturday relief working runs into Kirkconnel station on 6 August 1966 behind a <I>Peak</I> type 4 locomotive.<br><br>[Colin Miller 06/08/1966]](/images/25000/25322.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![A <I>Peak</I> arrives at Kirconnel with the down <I>Thames - Clyde Express</I> on 6 August 1966.<br><br>[Colin Miller 06/08/1966]](/images/25000/25323.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![Black 5 no 44862 takes a southbound train through Kirkconnel on 6 August 1966.<br><br>[Colin Miller 06/08/1966]](/images/28000/28335.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![D5362 with class 25s in the old Port Road bays (now infilled for car parking) at the north end of Dumfries station in 1968.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1968]](/images/11000/11183.jpg "Dumfries")
![The bays (left) at the north end of Dumfries station in the early days of 1968. One of the type 2s regularly seen here during this period, including stabling at weekends (see image 3438), is standing at signals. The bays are now filled in and used for car parking, with freight workings such as those serving the former ICI factory at Cargenbridge and the old Dumfries South Yard a distant memory. At the top right of the picture is part of the <I>lighthouse</I> signal box, whose demolition so upset the late Derek Cross (see image 3568). <br><br>[John McIntyre //1968]](/images/21000/21305.jpg "Dumfries")
![Observation coach SC1728E standing in one of the north bay platforms at Dumfries in May 1968. <br><br>[John McIntyre /05/1968]](/images/12000/12486.jpg "Dumfries")
![D5350 stands in one of the bays at the north end of Dumfries in May 1968.<br><br>[John McIntyre /05/1968]](/images/13000/13893.jpg "Dumfries")
![The driver of EE Type 4 locomotive D328 looks back along the platform at Dumfries for the guards signal in June 1968 before taking his train north.<br><br>[John McIntyre /06/1968]](/images/17000/17823.jpg "Dumfries")
![The shell of Dumfries shed on a quiet Sunday in June 1969. View north through Annan Road Bridge with the station in the background. The type 2 diesel stabled alongside the old goods depot is probably diagrammed for the first ICI working from Cargenbridge on Monday morning.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/1969]](/images/3000/3570.jpg "Dumfries")
![5349 stabled for the weekend alongside the old goods depot just south of Dumfries station in July 1970<br><br>[John Furnevel /07/1970]](/images/3000/3515.jpg "Dumfries")
![Stabled for the weekend alongside the goods depot to the south of Dumfries station in July 1970 [see image 19224] is Eastfield BRCW Type 2 no 5349. The up platform is visible on the left through St Mary's Street Road bridge, while the old Dumfries shed (closed in 1966 and trackless but still intact at that time) stands on the right. <br><br>[John Furnevel 19/07/1970]](/images/51000/51691.jpg "Dumfries")
![A class 40 hauled southbound train passing Auldgirth signal box in October 1970. Auldgirth station (closed 1952) stands in the left background alongside the bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/10/1970]](/images/4000/4159.jpg "Auldgirth")
![Northbound parcels train on Carronbridge viaduct in October 1970.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/10/1970]](/images/4000/4054.jpg "Carronbridge")
![EE Type 1 8098 with a northbound freight running parallel with the A76 at Mennock on the GSWR main line south of Sanquhar in October 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/10/1970]](/images/6000/6315.jpg "Mennock")
![View east over Dumfries station in 1971 as class 47 D1628 pauses with a southbound train.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1971]](/images/18000/18721.jpg "Dumfries")
![A northbound service leaving Dumfries for Glasgow in 1971. Note the Type 2s stabled in the former Kirkcudbright and Stranraer bays on the right. For a painting based on this photograph [see image 22888]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 08/04/1971]](/images/3000/3438.jpg "Dumfries")
![The Perth - Kensington Olympia Motorail service starts to pick up after passing through Dumfries station in April 1971 and is about to run past Dumfries South box. View is north west towards the town centre, with the distinctive outline of St Mary's parish church on the extreme right of the picture.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/04/1971]](/images/6000/6324.jpg "Dumfries")
![Holbeck 'Peak' no 16 calls at Dumfries with the 15.25 Glasgow Central - Leeds in the spring of 1971.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/04/1971]](/images/42000/42151.jpg "Dumfries")
![A 'Peak' takes the down <I>Thames Clyde Express</I> across the 1850 Martinton Bridge over the River Nith shortly after leaving Dumfries in the spring of 1971.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/04/1971]](/images/42000/42404.jpg "Martinton Bridge")
![Class 50 no 439 runs through Dumfries with a diverted WCML service in May 1971, having just passed a freight heading north. Note the top of the old 'lighthouse' signal box can just be seen in the background above the first coach.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/05/1971]](/images/2000/2761.jpg "Dumfries")
![The 09.30 Glasgow Central - London St Pancras <I>'Thames - Clyde Express'</I> rolls into Dumfries in May 1971, behind the usual 'Peak' locomotive working back to Leeds. Note the time on the station clock. Despite the 'Express' tag, the train had a scheduled end to end journey time of 8 hours 50 minutes in the 1960s and early 1970s.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/05/1971]](/images/39000/39972.jpg "Dumfries")
![A mixed freight runs north through Dumfries at speed on a bright May morning in 1971 behind an EE Type 3 locomotive. Grab shot taken from the footbridge stairs.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/05/1971]](/images/45000/45376.jpg "Dumfries")
![The down <I>Thames-Clyde Express</I> restarts from Dumfries on 31 May 1971, with a Brush Type 4 in place of the usual Holbeck 'Peak' at the head of the train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/1971]](/images/2000/2171.jpg "Dumfries")
![The Kensington Olympia - Perth Motorail service heads north past the remaining shell of Dumfries shed in June 1971 behind a Brush Type 4.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/06/1971]](/images/6000/6308.jpg "Dumfries")
![A down Leeds - Glasgow train passing the former <I>Lighthouse</I> signal box that still stood on the hill to the north of Dumfries station in the early 1970s. In the words of renowned railway photographer Derek Cross, the historic structure was <I>'...demolished in an act of planning vandalism.'</I> Nearest the camera is the remaining section of <I>The Port Road</I> to Stranraer, still open at this time as far as the ICI factory at Cargenbridge, just beyond Maxwelltown.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/06/1971]](/images/3000/3568.jpg "Dumfries")
![A pair of class 50s with a diverted Glasgow - Euston train passing through Dumfries on Sunday 20 June 1971 during electrification work on the WCML.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/06/1971]](/images/3000/3432.jpg "Dumfries")
![Unusual combination. Photograph taken at Dumfries on a Saturday morning in January 1972. View is south from the steps of the station footbridge, just as a diverted Anglo-Scottish service passes through behind 439+183. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/01/1972]](/images/57000/57327.jpg "Dumfries")
![D437 passes through Dumfries with a northbound Freightliner in March 1972, passing a Type 2 on the centre road.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/03/1972]](/images/3000/3411.jpg "Dumfries")
![The up Royal Train 1X00 passing Dumfries south signal box in March 1972, hauled by a pair of immaculate looking type 2 diesel locomotives.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/03/1972]](/images/1000/1281.jpg "Dumfries")
![A short, sharp shower of rain sweeps across Dumfries during the morning of 24 March 1972. With electrification work in full swing on the WCML, locomotives 409+433 bring train 1M20, the diverted up <I>Royal Scot</I>, south through the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/03/1972]](/images/2000/2186.jpg "Dumfries")
![Brush type 4 no 1950 with a diverted Glasgow - Liverpool train, photographed south of Dumfries station in March 1972. The train has just cleared the Annan Road bridge and is about to pass D3172 of Kingmoor MPD shunting the south sidings.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/03/1972]](/images/4000/4633.jpg "Dumfries")
![An unidentified 'Peak' with the <I>'Thames - Clyde Express'</I> photographed during a lengthy delay at Dumfries station following a thunderstorm in the Spring of 1972.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/03/1972]](/images/40000/40137.jpg "Dumfries")
![On Saturday 27th May 1972, I spent most of the day in the Enterkinfoot/Carronbridge area on the G&SW main line, which was busy with diverted WCML trains, the Annandale route being closed, at least during the day, while electrification works were carried out. In the early afternoon, an EE Type 4 approaches the overbridge just north of Drumlanrig Tunnel carrying the minor road between the A76 at Enterkinfoot and the A702. The train is probably 4M31 (the correct discs are being displayed for a class 4 train), the 11:10 SO from Johnstone to either Manchester or Garforth. Unfortunately, my notes for the day have not surfaced so I cannot be certain of the loco's identity, but it might be No. 297 which belonged to the LMR's Preston Division (in effect Carlisle Diesel Depot) at that time. The loco looks as if it has been through works very recently and has had the gangway doors plated over, so I'm hopeful that a class 40 aficionado out there will be able to make a positive identification.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 27/05/1972]](/images/57000/57482.jpg "Carronbridge")
![A downpour at Dumfries in 1972 as an EE Type 4 leaves the station with a train for the south passing 5378 standing on the centre road. The roof of the former Dumfries locomotive shed, closed approximately 7 years earlier, is visible just beyond St Mary's Street Bridge. <br><br>[John Furnevel 28/05/1972]](/images/3000/3751.jpg "Dumfries")
![Remains of Dumfries shed looking north in 1972. The main line runs past on the left and part of the Station Hotel is visible in the left background on the west side of the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/06/1972]](/images/3000/3407.jpg "Dumfries")
![A pair of EE class 50 locomotives with train 1S57, the diverted down <I>Royal Scot</I>, heading north through Dumfries on Saturday 3 June 1972 during electrification work on the WCML. The large wooden sign on the old goods depot top left still reads <I>Caledonian Railway Goods Station</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/06/1972]](/images/5000/5980.jpg "Dumfries")
![A pair of Type 2s running south through Dumfries in June 1972 with a lengthy parcels train. Leading locomotive is 5378.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/06/1972]](/images/44000/44405.jpg "Dumfries")
![A busy scene looking north over Dumfries station on a bright summer's day in 1972. A <I>Peak</I> is arriving at platform 2 with a Glasgow Central - Leeds train, while a northbound Anglo-Scottish service is standing at platform 1. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/06/1972]](/images/50000/50033.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Peak approaching Dumfries from the north in June 1972 with the up <I>Thames-Clyde Express</I> around the time the name was dropped from timetables. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/06/1972]](/images/1000/1555.jpg "Dumfries")
![Tea up! The crew of a Holbeck 'Peak' takes a quick time-out after arriving 4 minutes early at Dumfries with the up <I>Thames - Clyde Express</I> on 24 June 1972. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/06/1972]](/images/3000/3174.jpg "Dumfries")
![47546 restarts a Glasgow - Birmingham train from Dumfries in 1972, with demolition work well underway on the former Dumfries locomotive shed. The shed, coded 68B for most of the post nationalisation period, spent its last 4 years as 67E before final closure by BR in May 1966. Dumfries and Galloway Police HQ now occupies the site [see image 2695].<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/06/1972]](/images/45000/45214.jpg "Dumfries")
![The 1205 Euston - Glasgow Central at Gretna Junction on Saturday 1 July 1972, double headed from Crewe by 407+422. The train is taking the ex-GSWR route via Dumfries due to electrification work on the WCML.<br><br>[Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 01/07/1972]](/images/56000/56228.jpg "Gretna Junction")
![Approaching the Dumfries stop in October 1972 is the morning Leeds - Glasgow Central train, with the usual 'Peak' type 4 locomotive in charge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/10/1972]](/images/3000/3572.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Glasgow - Leeds train passing New Cumnock in June 1973.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/1973]](/images/5000/5301.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The Rootes/Chrysler company train, hauled by a pair of Brush Type 4s, photographed on the southern approach to New Cumnock heading for Linwood in 1973.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/1973]](/images/6000/6314.jpg "New Cumnock")
![An unidentified <I>Peak</I> drifts past the kiosk on the down platform at Dumfries in July 1975 as it slowly draws to a halt with a Sheffield - Glasgow Central train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/07/1975]](/images/45000/45172.jpg "Dumfries")
![An EE Type 4 arrives at Dumfries on 18 May 1976 with a southbound service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/05/1976]](/images/3000/3437.jpg "Dumfries")
![A southbound train arriving at Dumfries in October 1976 behind a 'Peak' type 4 diesel locomotive. This was the year that saw the use of headcodes phased out by BR. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/10/1976]](/images/3000/3436.jpg "Dumfries")
![Annan signal box looking west across the running lines in 1978 [see image 11521].<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1978]](/images/36000/36748.jpg "Annan")
![Platform view looking north west from the barrow crossing at Annan station in 1978.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1978]](/images/36000/36910.jpg "Annan")
![A Carlisle - Glasgow Central DMU arrives at Dumfries on 18 August 1978.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/08/1978]](/images/3000/3520.jpg "Dumfries")
![An unidentified 3-car DMU passing Corsencon Farm south of New Cumnock. View north over the River Nith from a viewpoint alongside the A76. Thought to have been taken in September 1980.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/09/1980]](/images/59000/59482.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Northbound platform entrance at Dumfries in June 1981.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1981]](/images/17000/17430.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Glasgow Central - Leeds service arriving at Dumfries in June 1982.<br><br>[John Furnevel /06/1982]](/images/42000/42091.jpg "Dumfries")
![One of Eastfield shed's BRCW Type 2s no 27033 calls at Dumfries on a fine summer Saturday in 1982 with a Glasgow Central - Carlisle extra.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/06/1982]](/images/41000/41128.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Glasgow - Leeds train shortly after restarting from Dumfries in 1982, passing the site of Dumfries shed, with the buildings now demolished. This view from St Mary's Street bridge had not been possible prior to demolition of the old shed.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/06/1982]](/images/3000/3408.jpg "Dumfries")
![An unidentified Class 47 restarts a Glasgow Central - Leeds service from Dumfries in June 1982.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/06/1982]](/images/49000/49679.jpg "Dumfries")
![27041 arriving at Annan with a Glasgow Central - Carlisle service on 27 July 1983.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 27/07/1983]](/images/19000/19777.jpg "Annan")
![View from an Ayr -Dumfries excursion hauled by Black Five 44767 passing Kirkconnel signal box on 31 August 1985. Little remains of the up loop.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/08/1985]](/images/52000/52137.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![During the heyday of the steam-hauled railtour in the mid 1980s I cannot recall such a fine welcome. Scene at Dumfries in September 1985 following the arrival of 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I>.<br><br>[David Panton /09/1985]](/images/17000/17393.jpg "Dumfries")
![EE Type 4 no D200 (40122) pilots Black 5 no 44767 <I>George Stephenson</I> near Dornock on 22 March 1986 with a Carlisle - Kilmarnock special. The steam locomotive and stock were gradually making their way north to Fort William for a season of West Highland excursions, while the Type 4 had hauled the train from Carlisle in compliance with the BR ban on steam working under OHL at that time. <br><br>[Bruce McCartney 22/03/1986]](/images/29000/29266.jpg "Eastriggs")
![The Carlisle - Kilmarnock special working of 22 March 1986 stands at Annan [see image 29266]. D200 is about to come off the train here, having provided the power for the section 'under the wires' between Carlisle and Gretna, leaving 44767 to take the train north.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 22/03/1986]](/images/29000/29280.jpg "Annan")
![The final photograph in the trilogy featuring the Carlisle - Killmarnock special working of 22 March 1986 [see image 29280]. Having detached pilot diesel locomotive no D200 at Annan, Black 5 no 44767 is seen with the special a short time later heading west towards Cummertrees alongside the B7024. <br>
<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 22/03/1986]](/images/29000/29291.jpg "Annan")
![<I>No, he moved up to Forsinard a while back...</I> Annan box in 1987. <br><br>[David Panton //1987]](/images/16000/16606.jpg "Annan")
![Floral display at Dumfies station in September 1987.<br><br>[David Panton 12/09/1987]](/images/21000/21267.jpg "Dumfries")
![After a very long signal check just shy of Kirkconnel the driver of this 47 belts off heading south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16131.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![47 hauled passenger train heading for Carlisle at New Cumnock before the station re-opened. A youthful Mike Gibb looks on.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16136.jpg "New Cumnock")
![A new Sprinter takes the G&SW at Gretna Junction in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16144.jpg "Gretna Junction")
![Thornhill station still retained its canopy in 1989 and had a 'just closed' feel to it despite its closure to passengers in 1965. The stonework has since been painted red and the building rennovated.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/28000/28099.jpg "Thornhill")
![View south from the disused platforms of the former Thornhill station in 1989. The building has since been painted red and has lost the canopy.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/53000/53504.jpg "Thornhill")
![With commendable enthusiasm flowers were planted at Dumfries with the BR logo, word 'Sprinter' and logo to coincide with their introduction in 1989. The view is of the southbound platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/59000/59602.jpg "Dumfries")
![Looking over the former goods yard to the signalbox at Annan in March 1989, with the sidings in surprisingly good order.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/03/1989]](/images/50000/50280.jpg "Annan")
![Looking east through Annan Station on 5 March 1989.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/03/1989]](/images/50000/50288.jpg "Annan")
![A class 47 drags a dead electric train south through Dumfries in June 1991. The now demolished ex-Caledonian goods depot dominates the background on the east side of the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/06/1991]](/images/1000/1035.jpg "Dumfries")
![A dead electric train is dragged south through Dumfries by a class 47 on a Sunday morning in June 1991, with locomotive and stock in immaculate BR InterCity livery. The train is passing preparatory works for the new Dumfries & Galloway police HQ on the site once occupied by Dumfries shed.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/06/1991]](/images/3000/3409.jpg "Dumfries")
![Dumfries signalbox in September 1993. Origiginally referred to as Dumfries Station SB on its opening in 1957 it became plain Dumfries after closure of Dumfries South box [see image 6324]. [With thanks to Donald Hillier] <br><br>[Bill Roberton /09/1993]](/images/37000/37531.jpg "Dumfries")
![46229 at Dumfries with Glasgow train.<br><br>[John Robin 06/07/1996]](/images/7000/7173.jpg "Dumfries")
![Annan in October 1997 showing the former station building on the northbound platform.<br><br>[David Panton /10/1997]](/images/16000/16618.jpg "Annan")
![View towards Carlisle from Annan station in October 1997, before demolition of the platform buildings on the right.<br><br>[David Panton /10/1997]](/images/22000/22054.jpg "Annan")
![Transrail 60 082 passes Dumfries box heading south with a coal train in October 1997<br><br>[David Panton /10/1997]](/images/27000/27211.jpg "Dumfries")
![In October 1997 a Newcastle To Glasgow service pulls into Dumfries on 10 October 1997. The daily orange train would a have been a more unusual sight south of the border.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 10/10/1997]](/images/50000/50997.jpg "Dumfries")
![156 496 stands at Dumfries in October 1997 with a Glasgow Central - Carlisle service.<br><br>[David Panton 19/10/1997]](/images/20000/20959.jpg "Dumfries")
![The signal box at Holywood, north of Dumfries, in 1998 looking west over the level crossing.<br><br>[David Panton //1998]](/images/17000/17961.jpg "Holywood")
![Just east of Annan station 156435 takes to the single track as it heads for Carlisle. By modern (slightly peculiar) naming standards the train would be passing 'Annan Junction'. Behind the camera was Solway Junction, the point of divergence between the lines to Carlisle and the Solway Viaduct. The railway has since been re-doubled.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/52000/52992.jpg "Solway Junction")
![Solway Junction, looking east, in 1998. The line to Carlisle (left) has since been doubled and the line to the Solway Viaduct (right - now a series of houses) was double track for a short length.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/53000/53001.jpg "Solway Junction")
![60017 <I>Shotton Works Centenary</I> hauls coal south through New Cumnock station in February 1998.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/02/1998]](/images/6000/6312.jpg "New Cumnock")
![ScotRail 156501 is about to restart its journey at New Cumnock on a frosty February day in 1998 with the 11.10 Carlisle - Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/02/1998]](/images/45000/45187.jpg "New Cumnock")
![A Carlisle - Glasgow train formed by 156 450 enters New Cumnock on 30 March 1998.<br><br>[David Panton 30/03/1998]](/images/18000/18884.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The fenced off former station building on the down side at Sanquhar in May 1998 [see image 28961]<br><br>[David Panton /05/1998]](/images/28000/28960.jpg "Sanquhar")
![This fine piece of platform furniture seen at Dumfries in May 1998 puts the rather humdrum modern replacements in the shade (and has managed to retain most of its paint).<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 17/05/1998]](/images/50000/50987.jpg "Dumfries")
![The since demolished station building (down side) at Kirkconnel, photographed in June 1998. Note the surviving clock face.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1998]](/images/28000/28640.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![View south at Dumfries in July 1998 with 156 510 bound for Carlisle and 156 505 for Glasgow Central.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/17000/17388.jpg "Dumfries")
![The signal box at Holywood, Dumfries & Galloway, photographed in July 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/28000/28106.jpg "Holywood")
![Kirkconnel in June 1999 - view south.<br><br>[David Panton 11/06/1999]](/images/20000/20458.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![2002 and Thornhill signal box has yet to receive a lovely coat of bright red paint [see image 6604]. A Sprinter passes heading south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2002]](/images/57000/57195.jpg "Thornhill")
![A Carlisle - Glasgow train arriving at Dumfries in February 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/02/2002]](/images/2000/2898.jpg "Dumfries")
![The filled-in bays at the north end of Dumfries station in May 2002 with a Carlisle - Glasgow Central service about to restart from through platform 1.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/05/2002]](/images/2000/2199.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Carlisle-Glasgow shuttle entering Dumfries in May 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/05/2002]](/images/3000/3519.jpg "Dumfries")
![Remains of the sidings and coal depot south of Dumfries station in May 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/05/2002]](/images/5000/5691.jpg "Dumfries")
![Annan Station looking northwest in 2002. Annan SB stands in the left background.<br><br>[John Furnevel /07/2002]](/images/3000/3475.jpg "Annan")
![A Glasgow Central - Carlisle DMU south of Dumfries station in May 2003. The building on the right is the headquarters of Dumfries and Galloway Police, standing on the site once occupied by Dumfries locomotive shed. [See image 45214]<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/05/2003]](/images/2000/2695.jpg "Dumfries")
![ScotRail 156503 on a Dumfries - Carlisle shuttle service calls at Annan Station in May 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/05/2003]](/images/4000/4056.jpg "Annan")
![Junction for the <i>Port Road</i> to Stranraer, just north of Dumfries station in 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/05/2003]](/images/3000/3820.jpg "Maxwelltown Goods Junction")
![Alternative use - the large former goods shed at Dumfries South in September 2003, adapted to operate as a supermarket.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/09/2003]](/images/1000/1950.jpg "Dumfries")
![First Engineering tamper DR 7380 4 <I>James Watt</I> stabled in Dumfries south sidings over the weekend in September 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/09/2003]](/images/3000/3173.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Carlisle shuttle approaching Dumfries on 13 September 2003 runs past the south sidings.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/09/2003]](/images/3000/3516.jpg "Dumfries")
![The south end of Dumfries on a Saturday afternoon in September 2003 looking back towards Annan Road bridge. A DMU heading for Carlisle is passing First Engineering DR 7380 4 <I>James Watt</I> stabled in the sidings.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/09/2003]](/images/56000/56081.jpg "Dumfries")
![A pair of ScotRail class 156 DMUs passing just north of Dumfries station on 30 July 2004. A Stranraer Harbour – Newcastle service is about to call at the station, while the northbound train has just restarted its journey from Carlisle to Glasgow Central and is about to pass below the bridge carrying the A701.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/07/2004]](/images/54000/54836.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Glasgow - Carlisle train passing the former junction with the Stranraer line north of Dumfries station in November 2005. The short branch serving the former ICI factory at Cargenbridge had closed in 1994.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/11/2005]](/images/6000/6007.jpg "Maxwelltown Goods Junction")
![The refurbished station building at Thornhill in January 2006, with northbound coal empties passing.<br><br>[John Furnevel /01/2006]](/images/6000/6601.jpg "Thornhill")
![Holywood signal box and crossing, Dumfriesshire, looking east in January 2006. The crossing gates at this location continue to be operated manually using a wheel within the box.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/01/2006]](/images/6000/6595.jpg "Holywood")
![The station remains at Holywood, Dumfriesshire (closed 1949). Looking south from the level crossing in January 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/01/2006]](/images/6000/6597.jpg "Holywood")
![Holywood signal box in January 2006, looking west over the crossing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/01/2006]](/images/6000/6598.jpg "Holywood")
![A pair of former surfacemens' cottages near the site of Auldgirth station (behind the camera) looking south through the mist towards Dumfries in January 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/01/2006]](/images/6000/6599.jpg "Auldgirth")
![Transformation at Thornhill station. A former run-down ex-BR property now converted into 5 flats. January 2006. <br><br>[John Furnevel 31/01/2006]](/images/6000/6602.jpg "Thornhill")
![The signal box at Thornhill in January 2006, located on the up side of the line just south of Thornhill station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/01/2006]](/images/6000/6604.jpg "Thornhill")
![Looking north from the former goods yard towards Thornhill station on a cold and frosty 31 January 2006. <br><br>[John Furnevel 31/01/2006]](/images/6000/6605.jpg "Thornhill")
![The former station at Closeburn alongside the A76 approximately 12 miles north of Dumfries, photographed in January 2006. The station closed to passengers in September 1961. <br><br>[John Furnevel 31/01/2006]](/images/32000/32168.jpg "Closeburn")
![The former station at Closeburn, Dumfriesshire, in January 2010. Entrance off the A76. [Ref query 10 October 2010]<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/01/2006]](/images/61000/61136.jpg "Closeburn")
![To the west beyond the car park stands the platform at Gretna Green on a rainy day in February 2006. The new station is at the start of the single line section to Annan. The former station building, now a private house, stands in the foreground.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/02/2006]](/images/6000/6724.jpg "Gretna Green [1st]")
![Looking west along the platform at Gretna Green in February 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/02/2006]](/images/6000/6725.jpg "Gretna Green")
![The road approach to the original Gretna Green station, now a private house, in February 2006. The 1852 station was finally closed in 1965, while the current station, 100 yards off to the right, was opened in 1993. [See image 6724]<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/02/2006]](/images/6000/6726.jpg "Gretna Green [1st]")
![Platform view south from Sanquhar on 14 March 2006 following a heavy snowfall the previous day. ScotRail 156478 has just passed below the bridge carrying St Mary's Street after restarting a Glasgow - Carlisle service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/03/2006]](/images/6000/6993.jpg "Sanquhar")
![View west across the running lines at Sanquhar in the spring of 2006 showing the old station building on the down platform. Opened in 1850, the station was closed in 1965, only to reopen in 1994. (The boarded up building was subsequently restored and converted to holiday accommodation, thanks to Peter Rushton. [See image 5794])<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/03/2006]](/images/7000/7002.jpg "Sanquhar")
![The road approach to Sanquhar station forecourt on a chilly March day in 2006. The date displayed on the shield above the window of the boarded up station building is 1850.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/03/2006]](/images/7000/7003.jpg "Sanquhar")
![View south along platform 1 at a deserted Kirkconnel station on a snowy morning in March 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/03/2006]](/images/6000/6996.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![Platform view south at New Cumnock in March 2006. On the left is the wooden ramp up to the A76.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/03/2006]](/images/6000/6999.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Southbound train arriving at New Cumnock on 29 March 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/03/2006]](/images/7000/7006.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The signal box at the north end of New Cumnock station, photographed on a chilly 29 March 2006, with traces of a recent snowfall in evidence. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/03/2006]](/images/40000/40142.jpg "New Cumnock")
![A southbound coal train approaching Kirkconnel with fuel for Drax power station on a cold March morning in 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/03/2006]](/images/40000/40175.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![The station building at Sanquhar in April 2006 looking rather forlorn. Happily, work on restoration of the structure is currently well advanced.<br><br>[Colin Miller 08/04/2006]](/images/29000/29489.jpg "Sanquhar")
![A Glasgow Central - Carlisle train north of Dumfries passing the junction with the former Port Road to Stranraer in April 2006. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2006]](/images/8000/8350.jpg "Maxwelltown Goods Junction")
![60075 brings a northbound oil train through Dumfries in April 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2006]](/images/8000/8351.jpg "Dumfries")
![Oil train heading north from Dumfries behind a class 60 in April 2006 passing the abandoned junction for the former Stranraer line.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2006]](/images/8000/8473.jpg "Maxwelltown Goods Junction")
![Dumfries signal box in April 2006. The box stands at the north end of the up platform.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2006]](/images/8000/8477.jpg "Dumfries")
![Coal train southbound through Dumfries in April 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2006]](/images/8000/8499.jpg "Dumfries")
![Dumfries station and forecourt, west side. April 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2006]](/images/8000/8614.jpg "Dumfries")
![The driver of a northbound oil train applies the boot after passing through Dumfries station in April 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2006]](/images/8000/8615.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Carlisle - Glasgow Central DMU calls at Dumfries on April 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2006]](/images/12000/12815.jpg "Dumfries")
![EWS 66235 passing Maxwelltown Goods Junction on the northern approach to Dumfries in April 2006 with a coal train from Killoch bound for Drax power station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2006]](/images/55000/55234.jpg "Maxwelltown Goods Junction")
![Dumfries SB - September 2006.<br><br>[John McIntyre 22/09/2006]](/images/12000/12257.jpg "Dumfries")
![Merseyrail class 142 on its way home heads south through Dumfries in September 2006 after a works visit.<br><br>[John McIntyre 22/09/2006]](/images/12000/12273.jpg "Dumfries")
![Glasgow - Carlisle train at Dumfries in September 2006. <br><br>[John McIntyre 22/09/2006]](/images/12000/12335.jpg "Dumfries")
![A Scotrail Class 156 arrives at Dumfries whilst on a Glasgow to Carlisle service on 22 September 2006.<br><br>[John McIntyre 22/09/2006]](/images/61000/61794.jpg "Dumfries")
![The main station building at Annan in October 2006. Now converted to a Bed & Breakfast. How about the topiary...pretty fowl?<br><br>[John Furnevel /10/2006]](/images/11000/11522.jpg "Annan")
![A Glagow Central - Carlisle service pulls away from Gretna Green in October 2006 prior to the redoubling of the Gretna - Annan section.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney /10/2006]](/images/26000/26875.jpg "Gretna Green")
![The closed station at Eastriggs (formerly Dornock), between Annan and Gretna, looking south west in October 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/10/2006]](/images/11000/11668.jpg "Eastriggs")
![Noon train for Carlisle leaving Annan in October 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2006]](/images/11000/11523.jpg "Annan")
![A Glasgow Central - Carlisle train arriving at Annan on 12 October 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2006]](/images/11000/11532.jpg "Annan")
![A Carlisle - Glasgow Central service shortly after arrival at Gretna Green on 12 October 2006, with preparatory work underway in connection with the redoubling of the section to Annan.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2006]](/images/11000/11741.jpg "Gretna Green")
![A Carlisle - Glasgow Central DMU comes off the double track section from Gretna Junction and approaches the platform at Gretna Green on 12 October 2006. Preparatory work in connection with the redoubling of the route between here and Annan is underway on the left. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/10/2006]](/images/54000/54223.jpg "Gretna Green")
![Annan Signal Box looking north in October 2006 [see image 36748].<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/10/2006]](/images/11000/11521.jpg "Annan")
![A Carlisle - Glasgow Central train heads for Dumfries along the G&SW route just west of Racks on a bright and frosty 17 December. <br><br>[Brian Smith 17/12/2006]](/images/17000/17673.jpg "Racks")
![View east towards Gretna from the outskirts of Annan in May 2007 showing widening work underway.<br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2007]](/images/9000/9300.jpg "Annan")
![The old station building at Gretna Green, now a private residence. View south on 30 May 2007 towards the bridge carrying Glasgow Road over the line.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/05/2007]](/images/14000/14334.jpg "Gretna Green [1st]")
![An old timetable from 1916 showing a 26 minute spell during which 7 additional <I>workmens trains</I> arrived at Dornock station in connection with the munitions factory. Dornock was renamed Eastriggs in 1923 and finally closed in 1965.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/05/2007]](/images/15000/15332.jpg "Eastriggs")
![The building on the up side of Dumfries station on 30 May looking north - now incorporating a cafe/restaurant.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/05/2007]](/images/15000/15527.jpg "Dumfries")
![Looking towards Annan from Gretna and the start of the single line section on 30 May 2007. Some trackbed clearance has been carried out while on the right a <I>hit squad</I> has just arrived in the car park to undertake routine station cleaning and maintenance.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/05/2007]](/images/15000/15534.jpg "Gretna Green")
![The former Dornock station (latterly Eastriggs), Dumfriesshire, in 2007. During WW1 the station served the huge wartime munitions complex referred to euphemistically as 'HM Factory, Gretna'. Passenger activity generated by factory workers is well reflected in the old timetables of the day [see image 15332]. The mix of passengers would also have been interesting, with workers from all parts of the then British Empire. This continues to be reflected today in the Eastriggs village street names, which include Pretoria Road, Melbourne Avenue, Vancouver Drive, Delhi Road...etc..etc.. [Ref query 1667]<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/05/2007]](/images/60000/60303.jpg "Eastriggs")
![A morning Glasgow Central - Carlisle service crosses the River Nith on 1 June 2007 as it begins to slow for the Dumfries stop.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/06/2007]](/images/15000/15255.jpg "Martinton Bridge")
![Carlisle - Glasgow service (in Central Trains livery) being waved through the widening works north of Gretna Green station on 3 August 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2007]](/images/9000/9439.jpg "Gretna Green")
![Carlisle - Glasgow Central service makes a stop at Gretna Green just after joining the single line section to Annan on 3 August.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2007]](/images/16000/16072.jpg "Gretna Green")
![Annan - Gretna redoubling. A southbound coal train approaching Dornock on 3 August about to cross the recently replaced junction for the line into Eastriggs munitions sidings.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2007]](/images/16000/16090.jpg "Eastriggs")
![A southbound coal train runs south through Dornock on 3 August past the junction for the munitions sidings at Eastriggs with engineering work in progress in connection with the redoubling of the Gretna - Annan section.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2007]](/images/16000/16261.jpg "Eastriggs")
![Looking south from Dornock on 3 August showing preparatory work in connection with the redoubling of the line as a coal train heads towards Gretna.<br><br>[John Furnevel 3/08/2007]](/images/16000/16102.jpg "Eastriggs")
![Widening work underway in connection with the Annan - Gretna redoubling project approximately one mile west of Gretna Green station in November 2007. View is towards Annan as a Carlisle - Glasgow Central service eases slowly past the activities. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/11/2007]](/images/17000/17827.jpg "Gretna Green")
![A Carlisle bound DMU slows for the stop at Gretna Green on 6 November 2007. In the right foreground is part of the workforce engaged on the Annan - Gretna re-doubling project. Meantime, a northbound service is held at signals below the bridge in the background awaiting access to the single line section. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/11/2007]](/images/60000/60751.jpg "Gretna Green")
![Sprinter heads into the sunset at Eastriggs. New line to right and MOD depot to left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/2008]](/images/17000/17668.jpg "Eastriggs")
![View looking east at Eastriggs. The newly laid eastbound track is to the left. Other than the crossover it is not connected to the rest of the network. MOD depot to right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/2008]](/images/17000/17669.jpg "Eastriggs")
![Carlisle bound china clay passing through Annan in the evening light.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/2008]](/images/17000/17727.jpg "Annan")
![Carlisle bound service at Annan. The line between Annan and Gretna is being re-doubled. The section being doubled is behind the camera.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/2008]](/images/17000/17739.jpg "Annan")
![Northbound Freightliner passing through Dumfries.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/2008]](/images/17000/17746.jpg "Dumfries")
![Northbound coal empties pass through New Cumnock at night.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/2008]](/images/22000/22127.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Standing on the platform at Gretna Green on 7 February looking west towards Annan, showing progress on the redoubling work taking place on this section.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/02/2008]](/images/18000/18050.jpg "Gretna Green")
![Virgin <I>Thunderbird</I> 57 314 <I>Firefly</I> drags a Pendolino set south through Sanquhar on 8 March 2008. [Editor's note: Peter Rushton has recently bought the old station building at Sanquhar [see image 7002] and has plans (now approved) to restore it for future use as a holiday cottage. He has kindly agreed to keep us in touch with progress on the project via photographs posted on the website from time to time.]<br><br>[Peter Rushton 08/03/2008]](/images/23000/23565.jpg "Sanquhar")
![The rear of a <I>Pendolino</I> being dragged south through Sanquhar station on 8 March 2008. At the other end is Virgin <I>Thunderbird</I> no 57314 <I>Firefly</I>. <br><br>[Peter Rushton 08/03/2008]](/images/23000/23575.jpg "Sanquhar")
![First ScotRail 156 477 with the 15.48 Glasgow Central - Newcastle Central approaching Gretna Green on 4 April 2008. The train is running alongside the newly laid down line. The current single line becomes double just beyond the platform.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/04/2008]](/images/18000/18617.jpg "Gretna Green")
![A Glasgow - Newcastle DMU between Rigg and Gretna Green on 4 April 2008. The works are in connection with the redoubling of the route between Gretna and Annan.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/04/2008]](/images/19000/19813.jpg "Gretna Green")
![The 1303 ex Glasgow Central leaves Dumfries on 20 May 2008 for Carlisle.<br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2008]](/images/19000/19606.jpg "Dumfries")
![The road approach to the former Ruthwell station in May 2008. Located on the G&SW route midway between Dumfries and Annan the station closed to passengers in 1965. [See image 19346]<br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2008]](/images/42000/42853.jpg "Ruthwell")
![Traditionally a well kept station, a section of the down platform at Dumfries shows an interesting selection of <I>platform furniture</I> in May 2008. On the left above the wooden bench is a notice marking Dumfries as <I>Best Station 1987</I>. A tub of plants stands alongside the booking office door. An old platform kiosk, recently repainted, is being used to display art works. The former platform drinking fountain is on the right, with a red pillar box standing alongside. As for the canopy...<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19189.jpg "Dumfries")
![What must have been a hive of activity in its day. Part of the old goods depot just south of Dumfries station, where miscellaneous railway buildings still survive (some only just), photographed on 20 May 2008. The station is visible on the other side of St Mary's Street road bridge in the background, while on the far right, on the up side of the line, is part of Dumfries & Galloway Police headquarters, built on the site of the former 68B shed, closed in 1966. [See image 6308]<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19224.jpg "Dumfries")
![The 1303 Glasgow Central - Carlisle service stops at Dumfries on 20 May.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19300.jpg "Dumfries")
![The 1303 Glasgow Central - Carlisle service arrives at Dumfries on 20 May 2008 formed by ScotRail 156504.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19352.jpg "Dumfries")
![<I>Colour co-ordination</I> on the down platform at Dumfries in May 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19378.jpg "Dumfries")
![The <I>extra large</I> goods shed at Dumfries South on 20 May 2008 having come to the end of a period of several years as a Supermarket. View is northeast with the remaining sidings at the rear of the building and the still operational coal yard off to the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19394.jpg "Dumfries")
![The 1239 Newcastle - Stranraer train heads north away from Dumfries and towards Kilmarnock on 20 May 2008. To the left are the infilled bays that once accommodated direct services to Stranraer running along the former <I>Port Road</I> via Castle Douglas and Newton Stewart.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19491.jpg "Dumfries")
![The 1239 Newcastle - Stranraer service arriving at Dumfries on 20 May 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19838.jpg "Dumfries")
![The 1859 G&SWR building on the west side of Dumfries station on 20 May 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/20000/20158.jpg "Dumfries")
![156504 restarts from Dumfries on 20 May 2008 with a Glasgow Central - Carlisle service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/36000/36037.jpg "Dumfries")
![View south from Annan Road bridge, Dumfries, on a hot and humid 20 May 2008. A coal train hauled by Freightliner 66551 is passing the meagre remains of Dumfries south sidings [See image 4633].<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2008]](/images/37000/37515.jpg "Dumfries")
![View east towards Gretna Junction from Gretna Green station on 21 May 2008. A section of the new down line can be seen on the right and work is currently underway on construction of the second plaftorm.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/05/2008]](/images/19000/19179.jpg "Gretna Green")
![View west from Summergate Road footbridge, Annan, on 21 May 2008, showing the end of the current single line section from Gretna. The western extent of the preparatory work for the new up line can be seen running alongside and the platforms of Annan station stand just beyond the roadbridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/05/2008]](/images/19000/19278.jpg "Annan")
![The Station House Annan on 21 May 2008, now a pub/restaurant. <br><br>[John Furnevel 21/05/2008]](/images/19000/19312.jpg "Annan")
![Approaching the hamlet of Ruthwell Station from the south west on 21 May 2008. The former station, on the embankment top right, closed in 1965 and has since been converted into a private residence accessed from the north side of the line.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/05/2008]](/images/19000/19346.jpg "Ruthwell")
![A Glasgow - Carlisle service runs east along the single line section towards Gretna shortly after leaving Annan on 21 May 2008 alongside recently laid track that will eventually form the new up line. The train is about to pass the bridge that carried the Solway Junction Railway from Annan Shawhill south to the Solway Viaduct. Nowadays the bridge is spanned by a waste-water pipeline linking the decommissioned nuclear power station at Chapelcross with the Solway Firth. <br><br>[John Furnevel 21/05/2008]](/images/19000/19402.jpg "Annan")
![Approach to the former Racks station from the east on 21 May 2008 with the entrance to the station and goods yard on the left and the road bridge over the main line top right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/05/2008]](/images/19000/19501.jpg "Racks")
![The converted station building at Racks looking east across the lines in May 2008. During its 117 years as a station until closure in 1965 the (still noticeable) difference in height between the main building and platform level was overcome by the use of two fenced diagonal ramps built into the slope with the remainder of the area occupied by a profusion of shrubbery and flower beds.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/05/2008]](/images/19000/19502.jpg "Racks")
![Approach to Annan station in May 2008 from the steps linking the forecourt and Station Road.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/05/2008]](/images/19000/19550.jpg "Annan")
![The former Ruthwell station in May 2008, now a private residence. The station was on the G&SW route between Dumfries and Annan. It closed to passengers in 1965. [See image 19346] <br><br>[John Furnevel 21/05/2008]](/images/35000/35883.jpg "Ruthwell")
![Looking from the main road through the village over what was the station forecourt at Cummertrees, Dumfries & Galloway, on 21 May 2008. The station closed to passengers in 1955. The ex-G&SW main line runs beyond the fence in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/05/2008]](/images/38000/38488.jpg "Cummertrees")
![Having just left Annan station on a Glasgow Central - Carlisle service on 17 July 2008, 156485 runs onto the single line section to Gretna. The line was closed 2 days later to allow completion of the redoubling of this stretch of the former G&SW route.<br><br>[John Furnevel /07/2008]](/images/22000/22066.jpg "Annan")
![The 1043 service to Carlisle (ex Glasgow Central) calls at Gretna Green on 17 July. Work on the new platform and footbridge is well advanced and preparations are being made to complete the final section of double track during the 2 week complete closure of the line commencing on Saturday 19 July 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2008]](/images/19000/19869.jpg "Gretna Green")
![EWS 66018 is held at signals on the curve shortly after leaving Gretna Junction with a northbound freight on 17 July. The hold-up is due to a southbound passenger train occupying the single line section between Annan and Gretna Green. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2008]](/images/19000/19870.jpg "Gretna Green [1st]")
![The 1043 departure for Carlisle sets off from the rapidly expanding 1993 Gretna Green station on 17 July 2008 on the final 13 minute leg of its journey. On the extreme right stands part of the refurbished 1848 G&SW station building, (now a private house), closed to passengers in 1965. [See image 6726]<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2008]](/images/19000/19881.jpg "Gretna Green")
![EWS 66018 finally gets the road north at Gretna Green on 17 July 2008, following the crossing of a Glasgow Central - Carlisle service, and accelerates towards the station and onto the single line section to Annan. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2008]](/images/19000/19891.jpg "Gretna Green")
![A Carlisle - Glasgow Central service passing Eastriggs on the single line Gretna - Annan section on 17 July 2008. Work on finalising and commissioning the new up line is due to be completed within the next few weeks.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2008]](/images/19000/19895.jpg "Eastriggs")
![156502, forming the 1107 Carlisle - Glasgow Central, at Dornock on the single line section between Gretna Green and Annan on 17 July 2008, two days before closure of the line in order to complete re-doubling work. The train is approaching the recently renewed junction serving the munitions depot and sidings at MoD Eastriggs, located beyond the security fencing centre left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2008]](/images/19000/19923.jpg "Eastriggs")
![The 1000 Stranraer - Newcastle has just left the up platform at Annan on 17 July and is about to run onto the single line section to Gretna. New track and associated equipment is in place ready to be deployed during the 2 week scheduled closure of the line commencing 19 July 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2008]](/images/19000/19966.jpg "Annan")
![Looking west towards Annan over the remains of Dornock (later Eastriggs) station on 17 July 2008. Double track has recently been reinstated at this point as part of the Gretna - Annan redoubling project. The platforms that once brought people from all parts of the world to work in the giant wartime munitions factory nearby are long gone. [See image 60303] <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2008]](/images/60000/60879.jpg "Eastriggs")
![The 1107 Carlisle - Glasgow Central service leaves the newly commissioned platform 2 at Gretna Green on 11 August 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/2008]](/images/20000/20209.jpg "Gretna Green")
![A Carlisle - Glasgow Central train arriving at Gretna Green on 11 August 2008 with the new down platform now operational. Work still to be completed at the recently extended station includes installation of permanent lighting and the fitting of ramps to the footbridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/2008]](/images/20000/20212.jpg "Gretna Green")
![A Carlisle - Glasgow Central service pulls into the new northbound platform at Gretna Green on 27 September 2008. Further work recently completed at the station includes the footbridge ramps which are now operational. <br><br>[John Furnevel 27/09/2008]](/images/20000/20897.jpg "Gretna Green")
![A Glasgow Central - Carlisle service pulls away from Gretna Green on 27 September with work on the extended station nearing completion.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/09/2008]](/images/21000/21102.jpg "Gretna Green")
![156446 on the First ScotRail Carlisle to Dumfries service with the 1744 hrs departure from Annan on 9 May 2009.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/05/2009]](/images/23000/23620.jpg "Annan")
![The level crossing and signal box at Holywood, on the G&SW route north of Dumfries, seen here looking east on 10 June. Holywood is one of the reducing number of crossings in the UK where the gates continue to be operated manually by the signalman, using a wheel located within the box.<br>
<br><br>[David Forbes 10/06/2009]](/images/24000/24071.jpg "Holywood")
![A southbound service on the ex-GSWR route about to run over Holywood level crossing on 10 June, heading for its next stop at Dumfries. This is one of the very few level crossings that is manually operated from the box by wheel.<br><br>[David Forbes 10/06/2009]](/images/24000/24084.jpg "Holywood")
![Watercolour painting by Dumfries artist Dennis McCallum entitled <I>Catching up on time</I> showing a train leaving the north end of Dumfries station in the early 1970s. [Editor's note: The painting is based on an old photograph [see image 3438] about which Dennis contacted me through the website asking permission to use it as the basis for this work. He has kindly sent me one of the limited edition prints based on the original painting. His father was a driver at Dumfries shed.] <br><br>[Dennis McCallum 17/08/2009]](/images/22000/22888.jpg "Dumfries")
![Framed by Andy Goldsworthy's sculpture <I>Touchstone North</I>, a Carlisle-Glasgow service threads though Drumlanrig Gorge near Ardoch farm.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham 11/09/2009]](/images/26000/26043.jpg "Drumlanrig Gorge")
![A four car 156 First ScotRail service bound for Glasgow Central about to pull away from Dumfries on a freezing 8 January 2010.<br><br>[Brian Smith 08/01/2010]](/images/27000/27373.jpg "Dumfries")
![Work in progress inside the former station building at Sanquhar on 5 February 2010. View is north from what will eventually become a bathroom. [See image 28529]<br>
<br><br>[Peter Rushton 05/02/2010]](/images/28000/28440.jpg "Sanquhar")
![EWS 66030 with northbound coal empties passing Sanquhar on 3 March 2010. Restoration and refurbishmnet work on the station building is now well underway. [Editors Note: The building was purchased in 2008 by Peter Rushton [see image 23565] who has plans to turn it into a holiday let. He has kindly supplied the website with a number of photographs showing progress on the project.]<br><br>[Peter Rushton 03/03/2010]](/images/28000/28434.jpg "Sanquhar")
![Freightliner 66508 heads south with a coal train on 5 March 2010 past ongoing restoration work at Sanquhar station.<br><br>[Peter Rushton 05/03/2010]](/images/28000/28581.jpg "Sanquhar")
![Removing the old roof timbers at Sanquhar station on 22 March 2010. Won't need to buy firewood for a couple of years!<br>
<br><br>[Peter Rushton 22/03/2010]](/images/28000/28529.jpg "Sanquhar")
![Progress at Sanquhar station on 16 April 2010 looking west across the running lines. The building is shown here prior to slating and with the logia along the front of the building now reinstated (the right side of which will become an enclosed dining area). [See image 28960]<br><br>[Peter Rushton 16/04/2010]](/images/28000/28961.jpg "Sanquhar")
![A Glasgow Central - Carlisle service approaching Dumfries station on 3 May passes the former junction for the Stranraer line. The trackbed of the old <I>Port Road</I> has been converted to a walkway/cycleway just beyond the trees and follows the route as far as Cargenbridge on what is now known as The Maxwelltown Railway Path. [See image 25379]<br><br>[Brian Smith 03/05/2010]](/images/29000/29648.jpg "Maxwelltown Goods Junction")
![View north west at Annan on 13 May 2010 over the little used sidings at the rear of the down platform. In the background Freightliner 70003 brings a train of HHA high capacity coal hoppers past the signal box before running south through the station. <br><br>[John Furnevel 13/05/2010]](/images/28000/28952.jpg "Annan")
![The 1212 Glasgow Central - Newcastle Central via Carlisle arrives at Annan on 13 May 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/05/2010]](/images/28000/28999.jpg "Annan")
![The 1410 service to Newcastle (ex-Glasgow Central) seen just after leaving Annan station on 13 May having passed below Station Road bridge. The train is approaching the signal that, prior to the summer of 2008, marked the start of the single line section to Gretna. For a view looking back from the footbridge in the background during single line days [see image 19966]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 13/05/2010]](/images/29000/29024.jpg "Annan")
![EWS 66238 crosses the River Nith on Martinton Bridge with a southbound coal train in May 2010 on the approach to Dumfries station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/05/2010]](/images/29000/29050.jpg "Martinton Bridge")
![The station name has now reappeared at Racks (closed 1965), formed with white bricks. Photographed looking east from the road bridge on 13 May 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/05/2010]](/images/29000/29098.jpg "Racks")
![A Glasgow Central - Newcastle service calls at Annan on 13 May 2010. <br><br>[John Furnevel 13/05/2010]](/images/29000/29192.jpg "Annan")
![66140 takes a coal train south through Racks on 13 May 2010. Note the name of the station (closed in 1965) formed out of white bricks on the side of the cutting to the left of the first vehicle.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/05/2010]](/images/29000/29603.jpg "Racks")
![156504 calls at New Cumnock on 27 May with a Carlisle to Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/05/2010]](/images/29000/29162.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Platform view north at New Cumnock on 27 May 2010 as 156504 pulls away past the signal box on a Carlisle - Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/05/2010]](/images/32000/32016.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The Network Rail measurement train runs south through Sanquhar on 14 June 2010.<br><br>[Peter Rushton 14/06/2010]](/images/30000/30467.jpg "Sanquhar")
![Update on the continuing refurbishment work on the station building at Sanquhar, seen here in July 2010 [see image 28961]. The photograph shows work in progress on the new living room bay window.<br><br>[Peter Rushton /07/2010]](/images/30000/30399.jpg "Sanquhar")
![DBS Class 60 no 60074 <I>Teenage Spirit</I> runs south through Sanquhar in July 2010. [The locomotive had received its name and powder blue livery at the NRM in York as part of a charity event for the Teenage Cancer Trust.] <br>
<br><br>[Peter Rushton /07/2010]](/images/30000/30448.jpg "Sanquhar")
![Overall view of progress on the station building at Sanquhar on 13 July 2010. [See image 7002]<br><br>[Peter Rushton 13/07/2010]](/images/30000/30410.jpg "Sanquhar")
![View west over Sanquhar station on 13 July 2010 with the 12.19 service to Glasgow Central departing.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Rushton 13/07/2010]](/images/30000/30439.jpg "Sanquhar")
![The 09.11 service to Newcastle (ex-Glasgow Central) calls at Annan on 7 September 2010.<br>
<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 07/09/2010]](/images/30000/30593.jpg "Annan")
![Royal Scot no 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> photographed on 21 April 2011 hauling the <I>Great Britain IV</I> past the newly restored station building at Sanquhar. [See recent news item]<br><br>[Peter Rushton 21/04/2011]](/images/33000/33843.jpg "Sanquhar")
![One of several Virgin Voyagers to pass through Dumfries on 23 April 2011 due to PW works on the West Coast Main Line between Carlisle and Glasgow Central. <br>
<br><br>[Brian Smith 23/04/2011]](/images/33000/33983.jpg "Dumfries")
![Part of the restored and refurbished Sanquhar station in 2011 [see image 7002].<br><br>[Peter Rushton 29/04/2011]](/images/5000/5794.jpg "Sanquhar")
![Southbound coal through New Cumnock on 27th June 2011 behind Freightliner 66606.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/06/2011]](/images/34000/34748.jpg "New Cumnock")
![EWS 66177 brings a northbound freight through New Cumnock on 27 June 2011. The train is the 6Z89 from Carlisle to Hunterston consisting of empty box wagons for coal.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/06/2011]](/images/34000/34760.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The 15.19 to Carlisle (ex-Glasgow Central) about to leave Gretna Green on 25 November 2011.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 25/11/2011]](/images/36000/36556.jpg "Gretna Green")
![View east at Gretna Green on 25 November as the 15.19 to Carlisle leaves the station and heads for Gretna junction and the WCML.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 25/11/2011]](/images/36000/36567.jpg "Gretna Green")
![Stanier Pacific no 46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> approaching Polquhap summit, near Cumnock, on 26 April 2012 with the 'Great Britain V' railtour.<br><br>[John Robin 26/04/2012]](/images/38000/38580.jpg "Cumnock")
![Killoch - Drax loaded coal hoppers passing New Cumnock on 26 April with Freightliner 66585 in charge.<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/04/2012]](/images/38000/38654.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Virgin 'Thunderbird' no 57307 <I>Lady Penelope</I> passes through New Cumnock on 26 April during a Carlisle - Polmadie route training run.<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/04/2012]](/images/38000/38676.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Looking north from the down platform at Dumfries station in June 2012, with the filled in bays on the left. For a similar view in 1965 [see image 25943].<br><br>[Colin Miller /06/2012]](/images/39000/39421.jpg "Dumfries")
![The ex-G&SWR Station Hotel at Dumfries on 28 June 2012. Looking well kept and apparently prospering.<br><br>[Colin Miller 28/06/2012]](/images/39000/39481.jpg "Dumfries Station Hotel")
![Downpour at Dumfries on 28 June 2012 as the 13.48 Class 156 for Glasgow pulls into the platform. Some of the buildings in the old goods yard are visible through the bridge [see image 19224]. <br><br>[Colin Miller 28/06/2012]](/images/40000/40644.jpg "Dumfries")
![Bicycle hire point at Dumfries station on 28th June 2012, with some actually out on hire. This scheme had a slow start in 2010. According to cycling news website, in the first two months the cost per trip worked out at £1000!<br><br>[Colin Miller 28/06/2012]](/images/40000/40973.jpg "Dumfries")
![The third in the ICE series of plaques commemorating engineer John <br>
Miller (the others are at Haymarket and Ayr) was unveiled at <br>
New Cumnock Station on 2 May 2013 by Andy Savage, executive director of the Railway Heritage Trust and Provost Jim Todd of East Ayrshire.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 02/05/2013]](/images/42000/42940.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The northbound platform of Dumfries station in July 2013, now featuring some of the creations of artist Jenny Finch [see news item].<br><br>[ScotRail /07/2013]](/images/10000/10436.jpg "Dumfries")
![Volunteers at Dumfries station in July standing alongside some of the striking floral displays that now adorn the platforms.<br><br>[ScotRail /07/2013]](/images/10000/10476.jpg "Dumfries")
![One of the four passengers at Gretna Green on 18 October awaiting the arrival of the 1323 service to Glasgow Central (which was very well loaded).<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 18/10/2013]](/images/45000/45017.jpg "Gretna Green")
![A Glasgow Central - Carlisle DMU about to pass a reverse working at Gretna Green on 20 October 2013.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 20/10/2013]](/images/45000/45042.jpg "Gretna Green")
![156512 is about to pass below St Mary's Street bridge and draw to a halt at Dumfries platform 1 on 3 March 2014. The train is the 13.22 Newcastle Central - Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/03/2014]](/images/46000/46501.jpg "Dumfries")
![66053 takes an up coal train south through Dumfries on 3 March 2014 The train has just passed below the A780 Annan Road bridge. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/03/2014]](/images/46000/46510.jpg "Dumfries")
![66093 nears Bank Junction, New Cumnock, on 31 March with coal from Hunterston for West Burton power station.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/03/2014]](/images/46000/46837.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Freightliner Heavyhaul 66548 powers through New Cumnock with coal hoppers on 31 March 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/03/2014]](/images/46000/46984.jpg "New Cumnock")
![DBS 66121 climbs away from Bank Junction, New Cumnock, on 31 March 2014 with coal from Greenburn destined for West Burton power station.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/03/2014]](/images/47000/47179.jpg "New Cumnock")
![<i>The Scottish Lowlander</i> approaching New Cumnock on 27 September 2014 behind 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I>.<br><br>[Ken Browne 27/09/2014]](/images/48000/48903.jpg "New Cumnock")
![<I>Trompe l'oeil</I> paintings at Dumfries station on 24 October 2014 [see image 10436].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 24/10/2014]](/images/49000/49222.jpg "Dumfries")
![Dumfries looking North on another jolly boys day out.<br><br>[Gordon Steel 11/11/2014]](/images/62000/62693.jpg "Dumfries")
![During this period of exotic diversions over the G&SWR this was the reward for battling through the rain and sleet - a 156 on the 11.25 for Carlisle.<br><br>[Colin Miller 18/01/2015]](/images/53000/53963.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![Diverted from the usual Lockerbie route, this Glasgow to Carlisle Virgin train passes Gretna Green on Monday 18 January 2016.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 18/01/2015]](/images/53000/53986.jpg "Gretna Green")
![Trompe d'oeil paintings decorating one of the platform buildings at Dumfries Station on 29 April 2015.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 29/04/2015]](/images/51000/51190.jpg "Dumfries")
![Railway bridge over the River Annan just west of Annan station, photographed in May 2007 from the east bank of the river. [Ref query 6889]<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/05/2015]](/images/52000/52381.jpg "Annan")
![<I>'Incredible Edibles'</I> at Dumfries, 4 June 2015.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 04/06/2015]](/images/51000/51527.jpg "Dumfries")
![Railway track at Annan Station in 2015, manufactured across The Solway at The British Steel works at Workington in 1976. Sadly the works are now demolished. My late father in law who worked there would not have believed it. [See image 11536]<br><br>[Brian Smith 31/08/2015]](/images/52000/52464.jpg "Annan")
![The restored drinking fountain on the down platform at Dumfries in September 2015 [see image 19189].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/09/2015]](/images/52000/52554.jpg "Dumfries")
![The 11.25 to Carlisle (156 431) departs south into the mirk.<br><br>[Colin Miller 17/01/2016]](/images/54000/54246.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![A southbound Voyager, a service diverted from the closed WCML due to the Lamington Viaduct damage, is held at the starter while an all stations service clears the section.<br><br>[Colin Miller 18/01/2016]](/images/53000/53966.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![A displaced northbound Voyager passes at speed. A local expert (a bloke on the station) commented that he had not seen any 'dragged' Pendolinos, only Voyagers.<br><br>[Colin Miller 18/01/2016]](/images/53000/53970.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![A Glasgow to Carlisle Voyager scurries past the current Gretna Green station and the previous Gretna Green station on the 18th of January 2016.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 18/01/2016]](/images/53000/53992.jpg "Gretna Green")
![Kirkconnel signal box is in need of TLC. View north on 18 January 2016.<br><br>[Colin Miller 18/01/2016]](/images/54000/54068.jpg "Kirkconnel")
![Sunday morning scene at Annan station, unfortunately between trains despite the large number of diversions using the G&SW in January 2016. The broad path on the left gives step free access to the Glasgow platform from Elm Road.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 31/01/2016]](/images/54000/54311.jpg "Annan")
![An unidentified Virgin Voyager with the diverted 1Z05 Glasgow Central to Carlisle shuttle through New Cumnock on 18 February 2016. This service operated during the WCML closure due to damage at Lamington Viaduct and called only at Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54376.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Virgin Voyager 221102 slows for signals at New Cumnock on 18 February whilst working 1Z00 the shuttle from Carlisle to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54383.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The down platform at New Cumnock station on 18 February 2016.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54393.jpg "New Cumnock")
![ScotRail Sprinter 156430 pauses at New Cumnock on 18 February 2016 with the 1S50 Newcastle - Glasgow Central. <br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54410.jpg "New Cumnock")
![GB Railfreight no 66735 takes train 6H97, the diverted Hunterston HL to Drax power station, through New Cumnock on 18 February 2016.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54418.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The diverted Carlisle to Mossend engineers wagonload service about to run through New Cumnock station on 18 February 2016 behind GBRf 66737.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54423.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Colas Railfreight no.60056 takes 6S36 the diverted Dalston to Grangemouth empty tanks through New Cumnock on 18 February 2016.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54425.jpg "New Cumnock")
![GB Railfreight 66737 <I>Lesia</I> takes 6M49 the diverted Mossend to Carlisle engineers wagonload through New Cumnock on 18 February 2016.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54443.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Virgin Voyager 221102 <I>John Cabot</I> pauses for signals at New Cumnock with the shuttle from Carlisle to Glasgow Central on 18 February 2016. Another Voyager approaches on the reverse working.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54455.jpg "New Cumnock")
![ScotRail Sprinter 156439 pauses at New Cumnock whilst working 1L51 from Glasgow Central to Carlisle on 18 February 2016.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54472.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Virgin Voyager 221109 about to run through New Cumnock whilst working 1Z10, the shuttle from Carlisle to Glasgow Central, on 18 February 2016.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54481.jpg "New Cumnock")
![DRS class 66 locomotives 66304 and 66421 about to take the diverted Daventry to Mossend 'Tesco Express' container train through New Cumnock station on 18 February 2016.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54490.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Virgin Voyager 221142 speeds through New Cumnock on 18 February 2016 with the shuttle from Glasgow Central to Carlisle. The service was put in place following the closure of Lamington Viaduct. Note the coal loading point on the right.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54500.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The diverted 4M25 Mossend - Daventry containers running south through New Cumnock on 18 February hauled by DB Schenker 66145.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/02/2016]](/images/54000/54505.jpg "New Cumnock")
![The annual open day at the Charles Jencks 'Garden of Cosmic Speculation' at Portrack House, north of Dumfries, on 1 May 2016. The GSWR main line can just be made out through the fence, immediately south of the bridge over the Nith. [See image 2579] [Ref query 15556]<br><br>[Mark Wringe 01/05/2016]](/images/54000/54983.jpg "Portrack Viaduct")
!['Portrack Scottish Garden of Rails 2004' and GSWR main line bridge over the Nith, Charles Jencks Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Portrack House, Dumfriesshire.<br><br>[Mark Wringe 01/05/2016]](/images/55000/55144.jpg "Portrack Viaduct")
!['Portrack Scottish Garden of Rails 2004' and GSWR main line bridge over the Nith, Charles Jencks Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Portrack Ho, Dumfriesshire.<br><br>[Mark Wringe 01/05/2016]](/images/55000/55152.jpg "Portrack Viaduct")
![Unfortunately 'Ruston' reads like a very accurate description ...<br><br>
<br><br>
Displayed in the Charles Jencks Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Portrack House, Dumfriesshire.<br><br>[Mark Wringe 01/05/2016]](/images/55000/55484.jpg "Portrack Viaduct")
![Going here and going there at Gretna Green on 13th May 2016.<br><br>[Brian Smith 13/05/2016]](/images/55000/55242.jpg "Gretna Green")
![Station adopter Louis Wall has placed items of historic interest in the old kiosk on the northbound platform at Dumfries.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 16/05/2016]](/images/55000/55285.jpg "Dumfries")
![A rail movement, hauled by 66744, from Tyne coal terminal to Hunterston passing through Dumfries on 27th July 2016. <br><br>[Brian Smith 27/07/2016]](/images/56000/56097.jpg "Dumfries")
![East Ayrshire Carers has opened 'The Wee Train Cafe' at New Cumnock Station on 23 May. Light meals, cold and hot drinks are available Tuesdays-Saturdays from 0900 to 1500.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 27/05/2017]](/images/59000/59401.jpg "New Cumnock")
![A new cafe, 'The Wee Train', has opened at Cumnock station.<br>
<br>
Young carers who missed out on formal education can acquire hospitality qualifications, while after hours the premises can provide dining experiences without embarrassment for families with dementia sufferers.<br>
<br>
Inspiring stuff!<br><br>[John Yellowlees 27/05/2017]](/images/59000/59402.jpg "New Cumnock")
![One of three lovely paintings by Jo McSkimming for the People's Project at Dumfries Station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 02/08/2017]](/images/60000/60263.jpg "Dumfries")
![One of three superb paintings by Jo McSkimming for the People's Project at Dumfries Station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 02/08/2017]](/images/60000/60264.jpg "Dumfries")
![One of three superb paintings by Jo McSkimming for the People's Project at Dumfries Station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 02/08/2017]](/images/60000/60265.jpg "Dumfries")
![156511, on a Glasgow to Carlisle service, calls at Sanquhar on a fine 19 September 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 19/09/2017]](/images/60000/60989.jpg "Sanquhar")
![A collection of bygones (safely fenced off) at Sanquhar station in September 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 19/09/2017]](/images/61000/61002.jpg "Sanquhar")
![The well restored station building at Sanquhar, seen from the street on 19<br>
September 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 19/09/2017]](/images/61000/61019.jpg "Sanquhar")
![Very fine. The view from the restored New Cumnock station. The platforms are to the left.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 25/10/2017]](/images/62000/62370.jpg "New Cumnock")
![Gretna. Nothing happening on the railway and nothing on the road either.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 09/11/2017]](/images/61000/61811.jpg "Gretna Green")
![Dumfries station will be transformed into a farmers' market in the coming weeks. Local producers will be given space under the canopy in the station car park when the Dumfries Farmers' Market relocates from Lockerbie Road on Sunday, 1 April 2018.<br>
<br>
The market will be held under the canopy where, until 1965, trains left for Stranraer and Kirkcudbright.<br>
<br>
The monthly event is the largest local food market in the south of Scotland, and up to 30 producers will be setting up their stalls under the Victorian pavilion next to the station building.<br>
<br>
On sale will be a wide variety of locally-produced food and drink, including locally reared meats, pies, soups, baked goods, and locally produced drinks.<br>
<br>
Left to Right - Chair of Dumfries Farmers Market Sarah Burchell, Max Nowell of Steilhead Cider, Carol Johnston of John Watt & Son Coffee, ScotRail Alliance Station Team Manager George Cameron.<br><br>[ScotRail //2018]](/images/63000/63353.jpg "Dumfries")
