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Kirkcudbright Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Whauphill.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/106.jpg "Whauphill")
![Looking north over the closed Bridge of Dee station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/111.jpg "Bridge of Dee")
![Looking east at the closed Tarff station from the roadside.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/112.jpg "Tarff")
![Remains of the viaduct over the Dee at Tongland near Kirkcudbright<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/113.jpg "Tongland Viaduct")
![Looking west at Tongland Viaduct in the 1930s. [Old family photograph]<br><br>[John Furnevel Collection //]](/images/1000/1044.jpg "Tongland Viaduct")
![Kirkcudbright. C.R. 0.6.0 57329 on branch train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/05/1949]](/images/7000/7417.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![Men behaving badly. Messing around on the platform at Kirkcudbright in March 1963. View north from the buffer stops towards the locomotive shed, with the goods shed visible on the left through the smoke. <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 09/03/1963]](/images/36000/36435.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![A branch train from Dumfries arriving through the rain at Kirkcudbright in March 1963, just over two years prior to closure of the line.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 09/03/1963]](/images/37000/37149.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![Standard tank 80023 backing <I>Scottish Rambler no 2</I> out of Kirkcudbright station on 15 April 1963.<br><br>[John Robin 15/04/1963]](/images/50000/50443.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![Looking towards the buffer stops at Kirkcudbright on 14 September 1963. A Royal Mail van stands on the platform and Black 5 no 45480 prepares to take out the 4.51pm train to Dumfries, having completed some shunting in the yard.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 14/09/1963]](/images/22000/22499.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![The 4.51pm train to Dumfries taking water at Kirkcudbright terminus just two weeks before the end of passenger services on the branch. Closure came on 3rd May 1965.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1965]](/images/30000/30675.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![Looking north east across Bridge Street, Kirkcudbright, on 22 September 1970. By this time the former terminus had been closed for over 5 years, although the station 'Gents' on the right remained in public service. In the distance are the abandoned locomotive shed and signal box, while the wall of the old goods shed stands on the left. Not long afterwards much of the area was cleared to make way for a housing development, although the station buildings themselves survive in other guises – even the Gents! [See image 25445] <br><br>[John Furnevel 22/09/1970]](/images/54000/54181.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![The surviving main building of the former station at Tarff on the Kirkcudbright branch in November 2005, more than 40 years after closure of the line. View is east across the A75 road.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/11/2005]](/images/6000/6003.jpg "Tarff")
![The 1864 former station at Bridge of Dee, photographed on a wintry day in November 2005 looking south west towards Kirkcudbright. The station closed to passengers in 1949. [Ref query 6238] <br><br>[John Furnevel 11/11/2005]](/images/51000/51000.jpg "Bridge of Dee")
![Remains of Tongland viaduct on the north bank of the River Dee on 18 November 2005. The surviving arched section of the approach viaduct now forms an unusual and interesting garden wall.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/11/2005]](/images/6000/6001.jpg "Tongland viaduct")
![Remains of Tongland Viaduct on the east side of the River Dee in November 2005. Rubble from the demolished main sections of the former bridge can be seen in the field alongside.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/11/2005]](/images/6000/6002.jpg "Tongland Viaduct")
![View east along the River Dee, just over a mile north of Kirkcudbright in 2005, with the remains of Tongland Viaduct on the right and Tongland power station in the background. For the north<br>
side viaduct remains [see image 6001]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 18/11/2005]](/images/59000/59082.jpg "Tongland Viaduct")
![The former Kirkcudbright station, looking north along the A711 Saint Mary Street in November 2005, some 40 years after closure. Housing now covers the site of the former platforms but the main station buildings still survive.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/11/2005]](/images/6000/6000.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![Just over a mile to the north of Kirkcudbright the branch crossed the River Dee on a viaduct at Tongland. The south abutment of the long demolished viaduct is seen here on 31 August 2009 looking across the Dee towards the next station at Tarff.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/08/2009]](/images/25000/25350.jpg "Tongland Viaduct")
![View west across the A711 St Mary's Street, Kirkcudbright on a rainy afternoon in August 2009. The stately old building is the 1864 terminus of the Kirkcudbright Railway. The main part of the old station (closed in 1965) now houses a <i>Beauty and Fitness Studio</i>, while the small structure on the corner of the block, once the station toilets, is now the home of the local bookies. (Subliminal message there perhaps?) <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/08/2009]](/images/25000/25445.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![Riverside path alongside the Dee at Tongland, north of Kirkcudbright, in August 2009, with the remains of Tongland railway viaduct standing on the east bank of the river. The arches of the western approach to the viaduct now form the border of a private garden on the opposite shore. Note some of the rubble from the long demolished deck and piers of the old structure dumped in the field beyond the right hand arch. The Kirkcudbright branch closed in 1965. <br><br>[John Furnevel 31/08/2009]](/images/26000/26141.jpg "Tongland Viaduct")
![Here stood the basic wooden platforms of St Andrew Street station in Castle Douglas (actually located on Abercromby Road), seen looking south towards Kirkcudbright on 2 September 2009. The site is completely overgrown beyond the bridge, where it now borders the local golf club. The basic facility was opened as a temporary measure by the Kirkcudbright Railway in 1864 due to difficulties with sharing arrangements at the Castle Douglas and Dumfries station (opened 1859). It remained in place for 3 years. Following eventual closure of the line by BR in 1965, this part of the route became a pedestrian shortcut to the town centre (behind the camera).<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/09/2009]](/images/26000/26007.jpg "Castle Douglas St Andrew Street")
![A fox terrier finds an unexpected obstacle on his stroll along the Kirkcudbright branch south of Tongland in April 2010<br><br>[Colin Miller /04/2010]](/images/28000/28715.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![The remains of Tongland Viaduct on the Kirkcudbright Branch. There were stone piers in the river and the viaduct was of girder construction. The remains of the piers are in the field just beyond the arches in the picture. April 2010.<br><br>[John Gray 10/04/2010]](/images/28000/28494.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![The well preserved station building at Kirkcudbright, looking south along the main street. Behind the building, where the trainshed and platforms were once situated, residential apartments have been built and joined on to the old station, which is currrently used as a fitness studio.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2010]](/images/30000/30816.jpg "Kirkcudbright")
![Part of the surviving remnants of Tongland Viaduct are seen here behind a house alongside the A711 road. The road crosses the River Dee running parralel to the old Kirkcudbright railway but then swings sharp right to pass under the line although the road bridge has been removed since the line closed in 1965. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2010]](/images/30000/30908.jpg "Tongland Viaduct")
![The surviving southern stump of the Tongland Viaduct, on the Kirkudbright branch, as seen from the nearby road bridge. Nature has softened the landscape around the structure in the last few years [See image 6002] although the pile of rubble is still in the field. Call me pessimistic but I have a feeling this is one Scottish line that will not be re-opening. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/09/2010]](/images/31000/31962.jpg "Tongland Viaduct")
![The top picture shows a trackside relic just south west of Castle Douglas - view looking west. Below is the top surface of one of a pair of them standing at the sides of a path within Threave Gardens, complete with metal numbers. Both photographs taken on 1 April 2012. [See image 41753 for explanation]<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/04/2012]](/images/38000/38226.jpg "Castle Douglas")
![Bridge No. 65 (Kelton Mains) on the Kirkcudbright Railway looking towards Castle Douglas on 1 April 2012. The steps on the left lead to Threave Castle.<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/04/2012]](/images/38000/38255.jpg "Castle Douglas")
![Cast-iron overbridge at Lodge of Kelton in April 2012 looking towards Kirkcudbright - now bypassed by a loop in the road over the infilled cutting. <br><br>[Colin Miller 01/04/2012]](/images/38000/38446.jpg "Castle Douglas")
![Refurbished bridge over the Mill Burn just west of Castle Douglas in April 2012. This section of the trackbed of the former Kirkcudbright Railway now carries a footpath.<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/04/2012]](/images/38000/38635.jpg "Castle Douglas")
