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Portpatrick Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking east at the closed Parton station from the roadside.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/102.jpg "Parton")
![Looking east over the former New Galloway station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/103.jpg "New Galloway")
![Looking south at the closed Palnure station from the roadside.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/104.jpg "Palnure")
![Looking west at the former Crossmichael station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/114.jpg "Crossmichael")
![Palnure from the roadside<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/115.jpg "Palnure")
![Looking west over the former junction between the Portpatrick Railway and the Kirkcudbright Railway.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/118.jpg "Kirkcudbright Junction?")
![Looking east at the former Gatehouse of Fleet station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/122.jpg "Gatehouse of Fleet")
![Looking north at the Glenluce Viaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/123.jpg "Glenluce")
![Looking west over the former Glenluce station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/124.jpg "Glenluce")
![Kirkcowan.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/125.jpg "Kirkcowan")
![Looking east over the former Newton Stewart station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/127.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![New Galloway station, looking west. The station is actually in Mossdale.<br><br>[John Furnevel Collection //]](/images/1000/1045.jpg "New Galloway")
![New Galloway station looking west towards Stranraer.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2089.jpg "New Galloway")
![Looking east along the Big Water of Fleet Viaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/4000/4016.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![Loch Skerrow from the east. The loch itself is to the right. The water tank and siding were to right and houses to left. The platforms were staggered.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6443.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![The westbound platform at Loch Skerrow. Behind it the remote moorland can be seen.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6444.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![The Big Water of Fleet Viaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6489.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![Creetown goods shed looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6509.jpg "Creetown")
![Challoch Junction looking west. The line from Dumfries (closed) is on the left and the line from Girvan (open) is on the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6510.jpg "Challoch Junction")
![Challoch Junction looking east. The line from Girvan is in the foreground and the closed line from Dumfries is further away running parallel.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6511.jpg "Challoch Junction")
![Castle Kennedy looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6512.jpg "Castle Kennedy")
![The overgrown Cairnryan Junction looking west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6513.jpg "Cairnryan Junction")
![Stranraer Harbour looking south from the now removed footbridge<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6514.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Stranraer Harbour in the 1980s. Rolling stock for a train to London rests in the station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6515.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![The empty platform at Stranraer Town. Access by kind permission of Railtrack.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6516.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Colfin looking roughly towards Portpatrick.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6519.jpg "Colfin")
![Sadly Portpatrick station site was cleared and prepared for housing in the 1980s.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6520.jpg "Portpatrick")
![Portpatrick Harbour was an early casualty being approached from a difficult incline reached by a reversal and being an inappropriate location for a port.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/6000/6521.jpg "Portpatrick Harbour")
![Aerial view of Stranraer Harbour with the closed Stranraer Town at top centre.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7254.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Dunragit SB.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/11000/11986.jpg "Dunragit")
![You would be in for a long wait at Loch Skerrow, but the westbound platform remains.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/12000/12149.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![Looking east at Loch Skerrow. The signalbox was at the end of the platform. A felled water-column remains here.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/12000/12150.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![Internal shot of Dunragit SB.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/12000/12892.jpg "Dunragit")
![Class 107 at Castle Kennedy.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/12000/12898.jpg "Castle Kennedy")
![Eastbound on <I>The Port Road</I> through New Galloway towards Dumfries in the early 1960s. In common with a number of other stations on the Dumfries - Stranraer line the link between the station name and the actual location was often <I>tenuous</I> to say the least. In this case the location is the village of Mossdale, a considerable distance from the <I>New Galloway</I> shown on the station nameboard. Closure came in 1965. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20275.jpg "New Galloway")
![Britannia Pacific 70016 <I>Ariel</I> (minus nameplates) stands at Stranraer Harbour in the mid 1960s under a low sun. The locomotive, built at Crewe in 1951, arrived at Kingmoor in early 1965 where she spent her last years prior to withdrawal in August 1967.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/21000/21201.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Shortly after leaving Gatehouse of Fleet station, heading east on <i>The Port Road</i>, the railway crossed a brace of viaducts spanning the two main tributaries of the Fleet. First came Big Water of Fleet viaduct, followed closely by the viaduct over its main tributary, Little Water of Fleet, pictured here from an eastbound train in the early 1960s. While its big brother still stands, this smaller of the two viaducts was subsequently blown up by the Army as a training exercise.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/22000/22379.jpg "Little Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![A Reliable Series postcard of Stranraer Harbour from the west, with the railway pier being the more distant one.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford Collection //]](/images/45000/45554.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View east over New Galloway station sometime in the late 1920s looking towards Castle Douglas. Note the LMS and NB markings still present on the wagons in the goods yard over on the left. The station house survives to this day, albeit much modified [see image 29120]. [Old family photograph]. <br><br>[John Furnevel Collection //]](/images/54000/54638.jpg "New Galloway")
![Looking west at PW work being carried out at Loch Ken Viaduct on the Dumfries - Stranraer <I>Port Road</I> in April 1938. (Old family photograph).<br><br>[John Furnevel Collection /04/1938]](/images/1000/1048.jpg "Loch Ken Viaduct")
![A Dumfries - Stranraer train photographed shortly after leaving New Galloway station on 14 July 1956 behind Fowler 2P 4-4-0 40623. [Ref query 46221] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1956]](/images/56000/56437.jpg "New Galloway")
![The down mid-day <I>'Paddy'</I> near New Galloway on the Port Road in the summer of 1956. The locomotive is Kingmoor shed's Jubilee 45691 <I>Orion</I>. [Ref query 2486]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1956]](/images/57000/57166.jpg "New Galloway")
![Horwich Mogul 42918 with a westbound goods at a wet and lonely Loch Skerrow station on 14 July 1956. The train is on the up line at this point to permit overtaking. [Ref query 678] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1956]](/images/57000/57994.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![Compound 4-4-0 41132 calls at New Galloway on 14 July 1956 with a Stranraer - Dumfries train. [Ref query 980] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1956]](/images/58000/58432.jpg "New Galloway")
![An eastbound freight on the Port Road in the summer of 1956. Horwich Mogul 42915 has just crossed the viaduct over Loch Ken, midway between New Galloway and Parton. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1956]](/images/59000/59814.jpg "Loch Ken Viaduct")
![Stranraer based Fowler 2P 4-4-0 no 40623 pulls into the westbound platform of New Galloway station on an overcast Saturday 14 July 1956 with a Dumfries - Stranraer stopping train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1956]](/images/59000/59887.jpg "New Galloway")
![Ex-Caledonian 'Jumbo' 0-6-0 57362 approaching Loch Skerrow on 14 July 1956 with a Newton Stewart - Castle Douglas goods. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1956]](/images/60000/60947.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![A trainload of bombs destined for Loch Ryan heading west on the Port Road near Loch Skerrow in the summer of 1956. Locomotive in charge is Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48157. [Ref query 15 January 2018] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1956]](/images/62000/62533.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![Dumfries based Caley 'Jumbo' 0-6-0 57362 crossing Stroan Viaduct on Saturday 14 July 1956 with a short goods train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1956]](/images/63000/63629.jpg "Stroan Viaduct")
![BR light Pacific 72009 <I>Clan Stewart</I> prepares to leave Stranraer Town on 16 July 1956 with the 7.25 service to Glasgow St Enoch.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/56000/56920.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![BR Standard light Pacific no 72009 <I>Clan Stewart</I> brings the 7.25am Stranraer - Glasgow train over Dunragit level crossing on 16 July 1956.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/57000/57551.jpg "Dunragit")
![Compound 40920 arrives at Creetown on 16 July 1956 with a Stranraer - Dumfries train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/58000/58256.jpg "Creetown")
![The Girvan Goods at Dunragit on 16 July 1956. Stranraer 2P 4-4-0 40616 pilots Corkerhill based Standard class 5 4-6-0 73100.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/59000/59208.jpg "Dunragit")
![40623+45432 photographed shortly after leaving Newton Stewart on 16 July 1956 with a train for Dumfries. [Ref query 1660] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/60000/60225.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![A general view of Stranraer shed on 16 July 1956. Locomotives in the photograph are noted as Jubilee 45704 <I>Leviathan</I>, Black 5 45432, 2P 40616 and Compound 41132. The first two were Carlisle Kingmoor engines, with the 4-4-0s locally based.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/60000/60230.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![2P 40623 with Black 5 45432 at Newton Stewart on 16 July 1956 with the 10.58 am ex-Stranraer. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1956]](/images/60000/60322.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![45432 prepares to leave Stranraer Town on 5 September 1961 with the 3.40pm train for Dumfries. [Ref query 2778]<br><br>[David Stewart 05/09/1961]](/images/45000/45799.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Black 5 45432 waiting to leave Newton Stewart with the 3.40 p.m. Stranraer-Dumfries train on 5 September 1961. The station staff are having trouble with the vacuum bag and this delayed departure by 13 mins. [See image 45799] [Ref Query 8878]<br><br>[David Stewart 05/09/1961]](/images/46000/46076.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![A general view east over Stranraer Town station on 5 September 1961 with the yard and shed standing just beyond.<br><br>[David Stewart 05/09/1961]](/images/48000/48302.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![45432 calls at Newton Stewart on 5 September 1961 with the 3.40pm Stranraer - Dumfries. <br><br>[David Stewart 05/09/1961]](/images/48000/48328.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![A busy afternoon scene at Stranraer Harbour in 1962. The Black 5s waiting on the centre roads are Stranraer's own 44789 nearest the camera, standing alongside 44801 from Hurlford.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1962]](/images/36000/36573.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![RCTS/SLS RAIL TOUR OF SCOTLAND 23rd June 1962<br><br>
123/49 approaching Newton Stewart from Stranraer.<br><br>[Jim Currie (Courtesy Stephenson Locomotive Society) 23/06/1962]](/images/39000/39543.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![Shed scene at Stranraer on 5 August 1962. Nearest the camera is Corkerhill <I>Crab</I> 2-6-0 no 42915.<br><br>[David Stewart 05/08/1962]](/images/45000/45827.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![A DMU from Glasgow stands at Stranraer Harbour station on 5 August 1962. Berthed on the left is <I>Caledonian Princess</I>, recently arrived from Larne. <br><br>[David Stewart 05/08/1962]](/images/45000/45943.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Class 2P 40638 on Stranraer shed in August 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart 05/08/1962]](/images/47000/47248.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![Ex-Caledonian 4-4-0 no 54508 photographed on Stranraer shed on 5 August 1962. The locomotive had been stored awaiting disposal since its withdrawal at the end of 1959. It was finally cut up in the yard of Messrs McLellan, Langloan, in July 1964. <br><br>[David Stewart 05/08/1962]](/images/48000/48506.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![Stranraer Harbour signal box in the summer of 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart 05/08/1962]](/images/49000/49132.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View from the engine shed towards Stranraer Town Station on the right<br><br>[John Robin 15/04/1963]](/images/15000/15271.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![The Jones Goods and Gordon Highlander with 'Scottish Rambler No 2' for St Enoch preparing to leave Stranraer Town station on 15 April 1953.<br><br>[John Robin 15/04/1963]](/images/15000/15284.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Photograph taken from a window of SLS/BLS <I>Scottish Rambler no 2</I> on 15 April 1963. The train was on its way back from Stranraer Town to Glasgow St Enoch (behind HR103 + GNSR49) when it passed Stranraer shed's 57375 west of Dunragit. The <I>Jumbo</I> had earlier taken the special from Newton Stewart along the Garlieston and Whithorn branches and is seen here on its way home.<br><br>[John Robin 15/04/1963]](/images/45000/45745.jpg "Dunragit")
![Jubilee 45588 <I>Kashmir</I> makes a photostop at Loch Skerrow on 15 April 1963 with the The SLS/BLS <I>Scottish Rambler No 2</I> joint Easter rail tour.<br><br>[John Robin 15/04/1963]](/images/48000/48449.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![A busy scene at Newton Stewart on 15 April 1963 with Jubilee 45588 <I>Kashmir</I> preparing to leave with <I>'Scottish Rambler No 2'</I> for Stranraer Town. In the centre Caley 'Jumbo' 57375 has recently returned with the special from visits to Whithorn and Garlieston. Over on the left Ivatt 2-6-0 46467 is standby locomotive, while in the background a Black 5 has halted in the loop with an eastbound freight.<br><br>[John Robin 15/04/1963]](/images/50000/50605.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![<I>Scottish Rambler no 2</I>, westbound through remotest Kirkcudbrightshire on 15 April 1963 between Loch Skerrow and Gatehouse of Fleet. The special is about to cross the viaduct over the Little Water of Fleet (<I>'The Wee Fleet'</I>), not to be confused with its bigger brother, located some two miles further west [see image 36501]. Jubilee 45588 <I>Kashmir</I> is at the head of the train.<br><br>[John Robin 15/04/1963]](/images/50000/50923.jpg "Little Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![Strangers on Stranraer shed in April 1963. HR 'Jones Goods' no 103 and GNSR no 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I> stand ready to take over the SLS/BLS <I>Scottish Rambler no 2</I> Joint Easter Railtour for its final leg from Stranraer Town to Glasgow St Enoch. <br><br>[John Robin 15/04/1963]](/images/51000/51619.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![A Stranraer-bound train heads west away from Newton Stewart in April 1965, just a few months before closure.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1965]](/images/27000/27410.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![Old clerestory coach in use as a church at Gatehouse of Fleet station on the Port Road in April 1965 - just a few months before the railway closed.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1965]](/images/30000/30552.jpg "Gatehouse of Fleet")
![April 1965, just two months before closure of the 'Port Road' direct line from Dumfries to Stranraer. A Stranraer-bound mixed freight train headed by a Stanier 'Black 5' crosses the Big Water of Fleet viaduct westbound against a backdrop of bleak Galloway mountains and moorland. The viaduct still survives as a listed structure, but a 1990s' proposal by Dumfries & Galloway Regional Council for a new Trans European Network rail link to Stranraer, as an alternative to upgrading the A75 road, came to nothing.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1965]](/images/32000/32406.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![In April 1965, a Black 5-hauled eastbound goods from Stranraer, hurries through lonely Gatehouse-of-Fleet station, approximately 6 miles by road from the village of the same name! [With thanks to Messrs Wood, Porteous, Connell and Robin] <br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1965]](/images/36000/36894.jpg "Gatehouse of Fleet")
![A Black 5 with a Stranraer-bound train pauses at Newton Stewart in April 1965, approximately 2 months before closure. The station was formerly the junction for the Whithorn branch, which had closed completely the previous year. Latterly, Newton Stewart was served by just four trains a day in each direction, including 'The Northern Irishman' sleeper/boat train operating between London Euston and Stranraer Harbour.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1965]](/images/37000/37688.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![An eastbound goods heads away from Gatehouse of Fleet in April 1965 - the Big Water of Fleet viaduct can just be glimpsed beyond the train. [See image 36894] <br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1965]](/images/37000/37719.jpg "Gatehouse of Fleet")
![A short passenger train headed by a Black 5 coasts across Loch Ken viaduct, between Castle Douglas and New Galloway, two months before complete closure of the Dumfries - Stranraer <I>Port Road</I> in June 1965.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /06/1965]](/images/32000/32258.jpg "Loch Ken Viaduct")
![D7612+D7614 at Stranraer Harbour on 27 May 1967 after bringing in </i>Grand Scottish Tour no 2</i> from Ayr. The locomotives are in the process of running round their train in preparation for the return journey. The <I>Caledonian Princess</I> is berthed alongside.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/05/1967]](/images/23000/23416.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![<i>Grand Scottish Tour no 2</i> stands at Stranraer Harbour on 27 May 1967 following the trip down from Ayr. Locomotives D7612+D7614 are in the process of running round the train in preparation for the return journey. Meantime, one or two well known faces on the railway scene in those days pass the time of day. In fact, isn't that .... <br><br>[Colin Miller 27/05/1967]](/images/27000/27319.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![</i>Grand Scottish Tour no 2</i> stands at Stranraer Harbour on 27 May 1967. The train had arrived from Ayr behind Type 2s D7612+D7614 which will now run round in preparation for the return journey. The <I>Caledonian Princess</I> is berthed alongside.<br><br>[Jim Peebles 27/05/1967]](/images/31000/31842.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![<I>'They'd no haddock left so I got you cod...' </I> Scene at Stranraer Harbour on 27 May 1967. D7612+D7614 had brought train 1X56 <i>BR Grand Scottish Tour no 2</i> from Ayr. [See image 23416] <br><br>[Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 27/05/1967]](/images/56000/56838.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Platform view west at Crossmichael station in February 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/02/1970]](/images/1000/1041.jpg "Crossmichael")
![Scene at Stranraer Harbour during a busy period in October 1972 with a ferry docked and a second visible through the mist on the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/10/1972]](/images/1000/1056.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View towards the buffer stops from alongside Stranraer Harbour station in October 1972 with a train for Glasgow Central at the platform.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/10/1972]](/images/3000/3433.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![A Type 2 carries out some shunting operations at Stranraer Harbour in October 1972.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/10/1972]](/images/4000/4844.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View east at Newton Stewart in September 1973. The old goods shed and yard on the left of the photograph have been put to alternate use by the local council, still the case 35 years on [see image 15528].<br><br>[Colin Miller /09/1973]](/images/24000/24077.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![Stranraer Harbour - Glasgow Central boat train passing Castle Kennedy in 1974. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1974]](/images/13000/13175.jpg "Castle Kennedy")
![A DMU from Glasgow Central arriving at Stranraer Harbour in January 1975.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/01/1975]](/images/4000/4837.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View from a train passing Stranraer Town yard on 7 February 1976, with a class 25 shunting. [The long-disused sidings were being lifted in mid-March 2015.]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 07/02/1976]](/images/50000/50685.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![When ships still looked like ships! The <i>Sealink</i> ferry dwarfs a Class 47 at Stranraer Harbour in 1977.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1977]](/images/31000/31229.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Scene at Stranraer Harbour in September 1978 from the road alongside the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/09/1978]](/images/4000/4836.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Scene at Stranraer Harbour in July 1979.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 11/07/1979]](/images/18000/18685.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Wee Fleet viaduct from the west after closure of the line.<br><br>[John Robin 14/08/1980]](/images/6000/6952.jpg "Little Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![Sealinks Galloway Princess prepares to come alongside at Stranraer. Owned by British Rail until 1985. She then became Stena Galloway and is now M/F Le Rif.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8478.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Looking to the buffers in the new trainshed at Stranraer Harbour.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8479.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Glasgow train waits by Stranraer Harbour signalbox. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8480.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View from the signalbox; the train from London arrives to connect with the Galloway Princess. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8481.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View from Stranraer Harbour signalbox in 1988. The train from London arrives to connect with the 'Galloway Princess'. To the right the Glasgow train awaits departure. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8482.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Inside Stranraer Harbours signalbox. Note the semaphore signal hard against the box (back window). Complete with obligatory section of carpet. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8483.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![In the increasing gloom an 08 draws up to the London trains stock to withdraw it from the station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8484.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Looking to Portpatrick from the eastbound platform at Stranraer Town in 1988.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/21000/21187.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Portpatrick station building and platform in 1988. View looking south. The line from Stranraer approached from the left and the line down to Portpatrick Harbour ran behind the building to the right.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1988]](/images/52000/52660.jpg "Portpatrick")
![On arrival at Stranraer Harbour. Footbridge over line has now gone.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/03/1988]](/images/8000/8467.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Looking east at Stranraer Town. The line in the foreground extended west to Portpatrick but stops just out of frame now. The 08 was for shunting Stockton Haulage and the car-trains at the pier.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/03/1988]](/images/8000/8468.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Looking west at Stranraer Town. The goods shed was used by a maintenance trolley, in front of it locomotives were stabled, in the goods yard car-trains parked and the line to the harbour was extreme right. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/03/1988]](/images/8000/8469.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Looking west at Stranraer Town. The station was to the left and had a bay platform to its right. The goods yard was to the right. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/03/1988]](/images/8000/8470.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Looking east at the station throat, Stranraer Town. Line to harbour extreme left. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/03/1988]](/images/8000/8471.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Stabling point, Stranraer Town. Some engines running, some not. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/03/1988]](/images/8000/8472.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![08675 shunting flatbeds carrying steel sections at Stockton Haulage, Stranraer, in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/51000/51052.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![In 1989, the Stranraer based trolley goes to bed for the night in the former goods shed at Stranraer Town, then a PW depot.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/59000/59353.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![A reminder of when the Stranraer line carried freight - not so long ago, 1989. Here a northbound train of steel sections passes Dunragit level crossing and the token exchange has just taken place. There was a safety man with a flag and the signal man had the luxury of a colleague who swapped the tokens while he remained in the box with the levers.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/60000/60027.jpg "Dunragit")
![1130 ex Carlisle arrives in Stranraer.<BR/>Bad day for snapping.156437<br><br>[Brian Forbes /06/1989]](/images/12000/12247.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![A 156 stands in the rain at Stranraer Harbour on 28 April 1990.<br><br>[John McIntyre 28/04/1990]](/images/11000/11762.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Looking towards the buffer stops and Loch Ryan at Stranraer Harbour station early in the morning of 28 April 1990. The class 47 has recently arrived with the sleeper from Euston, while the 156 awaits a return trip to Glasgow.<br><br>[John McIntyre 28/04/1990]](/images/20000/20192.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![It is early morning and very wet in this view south from the top of the steps on the covered footbridge looking along the external platform at Stranraer Harbour on 28 April 1990. <br><br>[John McIntyre 28/04/1990]](/images/25000/25439.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Stranraer (Harbour) in December 1993. To the right is the Stena Caledonian. The vessel, originally St David, was one of the Saint Class, and built by Harland and Wolfe in 1980. She operated on the Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire service, then at Dover before coming to Stranraer in 1990. Withdrawn in 2011/2, she was renamed Port Link and headed to Indonesia.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /12/1993]](/images/56000/56726.jpg "Stranraer")
![View west at Challoch Junction in 1997. The line from Dumfries was to the left and the line from Ayr is in the foreground. The junction was in the middle distance.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/43000/43302.jpg "Challoch Junction")
![View east over the site of New Galloway station in 1997.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/54000/54651.jpg "New Galloway")
![156 501 has recently arrived at Stranraer Harbour from Glasgow Central in October 1997 as passengers head for the ferry.<br><br>[David Panton /10/1997]](/images/20000/20868.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Stranraer signal box, October 1997.<br><br>[David Panton /10/1997]](/images/21000/21800.jpg "Stranraer")
![A 4-coach 156 combination waits to leave Stranraer for Glasgow Central in July 1998. The letter <I>S</I> appears to be from the next size up! <br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/19000/19984.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![The out of use second platform at Stranraer Harbour, seen in July 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/28000/28967.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Sunset at Loch Ken Viaduct, photographed from the eastern shore in Sepember 2001.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/09/2001]](/images/5000/5366.jpg "Loch Ken Viaduct")
![Down platform at Loch Skerrow halt.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 23/11/2001]](/images/6000/6488.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![Barely recognisable New Galloway Station (Mossdale) in May 2002 looking east from the road bridge towards Castle Douglas. Part of the platform can be seen beyond the hedge in the left background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/05/2002]](/images/4000/4037.jpg "New Galloway")
![The former rail bridge over Loch Ken, on the old <I>Port Road</I>, located between Parton and New Galloway stations, photographed in May 2002 looking west towards Sranraer. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/05/2002]](/images/22000/22540.jpg "Loch Ken Viaduct")
![Sadly the yard at Stranraer Town, so busy in the 1980s, now rusts. Access by kind permission of Railtrack.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 4/5/2002]](/images/6000/6517.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![End of the platform at the closed Stranraer Town. Access by kind permission of Railtrack.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 4/5/2002]](/images/6000/6518.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Site of the Little Water of Fleet Viaduct looking east to Loch Skerrow.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 11/05/2003]](/images/22000/22380.jpg "Little Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![The site of the signalbox at Loch Skerrow viewed from the end of the remaining platform looking east. Note the felled water column.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 21/05/2003]](/images/53000/53084.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![View west at Loch Skerrow in 2003. In the distant right is the eastbound platform and the remains of the watertank supports. Above and to the left is the railway cottage.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 21/05/2003]](/images/53000/53094.jpg "Loch Skerrow")
![Looking along the operational platform at Stranraer Harbour station on 17 August 2003. A train for Glasgow Central is awaiting its departure time.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/08/2003]](/images/1000/1529.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![The abandoned Stranraer Town station in August 2003 looking west towards Portpatrick. The boarded up station building still stands in the background. Stranraer Town closed to passengers in March 1966.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/08/2003]](/images/2000/2299.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![The station forecourt and main building at Stranraer Town in August 2003. [See image 15283]<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/08/2003]](/images/3000/3412.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Buffer stops - Stranraer Harbour - August 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/08/2003]](/images/3000/3434.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![A Sunday morning service for Glasgow Central leaving Stranraer Harbour in August 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/08/2003]](/images/4000/4843.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View over Stranraer Harbour on a Sunday morning in the summer of 2003 with a train at the platform.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/08/2003]](/images/12000/12821.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![A train for Glasgow Central stands at Stranraer Harbour in August 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/08/2003]](/images/12000/12928.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![A train for Glasgow Central awaiting its departure time at Stranraer Harbour in August 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/08/2003]](/images/48000/48364.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Scene from the gantry crane at the former Stockton Haulage yard, Stranraer, in 2004 looking south west. The Stockton Haulage yard area has since been cleared of all rail-related equipment and sidings, but the connection remains in situ. The yard is still owned, and protected for possible future freight use, by Network Rail, as is the old Stranraer Town station rounding loop to the far left. The Town Yard is straight ahead, and the 'main line' is off to the right. [Stockton Haulage was the last regular freight user of the Stranraer line - after the demise of Speedlink in 1991, their weekly steel train from Tees-side survived for two years until the traffic (for Northern Ireland) switched to road haulage and the Heysham ferry.]<br>
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<br><br>[David Reid (Courtesy David Spaven) //2004]](/images/27000/27173.jpg "Stranraer Harbour Junction")
![Stranraer Harbour Signalbox, March 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/03/2004]](/images/2000/2333.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Newton Stewart goods shed, looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/10/2004]](/images/13000/13166.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![The junction at Newton Stewart, looking west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/10/2004]](/images/13000/13167.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![The locomotive shed at Newton Stewart, looking to the former junction<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/10/2004]](/images/13000/13177.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![Western approach to Big Water of Fleet Viaduct in November 2005 with solitary sand bunker standing guard.<br><br>[John Furnevel /11/2005]](/images/6000/6017.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![The converted New Galloway station, Mossdale, transformed in November 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/11/2005]](/images/6000/6006.jpg "New Galloway")
![The former station at Gatehouse of Fleet, seen from the south on 11 November 2005. Opened in 1861 (originally as Dromore) and closed in June 1965, it is now a private residence in the process of refurbishment.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/11/2005]](/images/51000/51044.jpg "Gatehouse of Fleet")
![Big Water of Fleet Viaduct looking east in November 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2005]](/images/5000/5994.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![View over Big Water of Fleet Viaduct from the west on a misty November day in 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2005]](/images/5000/5997.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![The former Parton station, Dumfries & Galloway, looking east - November 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2005]](/images/6000/6004.jpg "Parton")
![Twisted sign - seen through the safety railings of Big Water of Fleet Viaduct. November 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2005]](/images/9000/9911.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![Looking east over the valley of the Big Water of Fleet and the viaduct that once carried the Port Road between Dumfries and Stranraer, as well as providing support (and vice versa) to numerous bricklayers towards the end of its operational life.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2005]](/images/22000/22420.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![The viaduct over the valley of the Big Water of Fleet seen 40 years after closure of the 'Port Road' between Dumfries and Stranraer. Photographed in November 2005 looking east towards Dumfries<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2005]](/images/36000/36501.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![The closed station at Parton (1861-1965) between Castle Douglas and Newton Stewart on the Port Road. Photographed from the A713 in November 2005. [Ref query 3563] <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2005]](/images/54000/54345.jpg "Parton")
![Harbour station looking from buffer stops in March 2006 [see image 23416]<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/03/2006]](/images/27000/27142.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Looking east from Stranraer Town Station, taken in March 2006, not long before the site was cleared. <br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/03/2006]](/images/27000/27169.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![A rather dated advertisement in Stranraer Harbour Station on 27 March 2006.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/03/2006]](/images/27000/27632.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Looking from the end of the headshunt from Stranraer Harbour platform 2 in March 2006 towards the Station. A run-round loop was still in situ there but the loop for platform 1 had been disconnected. The only pedestrian access to platform 2 at this stage was by picking a way round the end of the tracks, the footbridge having been removed. [See image 27142] <br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/03/2006]](/images/34000/34287.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View back towards the town from Platform 2 at Stranraer Harbour on 27 March 2006. The signal box was switched in on this occasion.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/03/2006]](/images/34000/34341.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Entrance to Stranraer Harbour station from the quayside on 27 March 2006.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/03/2006]](/images/39000/39266.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![One of the goods sheds at Stranraer. Views look east from Town terminus.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/03/2006]](/images/59000/59293.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![The main goods shed at Stranraer. Views look east from Town terminus. For a while this was the tamper shed.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/03/2006]](/images/59000/59338.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![This was the main goods shed (and later tamper shed) at Stranraer Town, looking towards the station in 2006 [See image 59353].<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/03/2006]](/images/59000/59490.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![The modified goods shed still standing at Newton Stewart in May 2007. The shed and part of the former goods yard have been put to use use by a plant hire company.<br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2007]](/images/15000/15528.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![The old shed at Stranraer Town in May 2007 looking west.<br><br>[John Furnevel 00/05/2007]](/images/15000/15270.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![The former main building at New Galloway station (extended on both sides) in May 2007. As with many stations in this part of the country the name and location have little in common. This is the village of Mossdale looking east. [See image 32835]<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/05/2007]](/images/15000/15464.jpg "New Galloway")
![Former station building at New Galloway (located in Mossdale), now with extensions on both sides. View south from the site of the station yard in May 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 11/05/2007]](/images/15000/15679.jpg "New Galloway")
![The old locomotive shed at Newton Stewart in May 2007. Latterly a sub shed of Stranraer it stood to the west of the station in the V of the junction between the lines to Stranraer and Whithorn.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15246.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![Looking north over the abandoned sidings towards the rear of the old locomotive shed at Stranraer in May 2007. Stranraer shed (68C) had been officially closed in October 1966.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15247.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![Approaching Dunragit level crossing from the south on 31 May 2007. The rear of the signal box can be seen on the right with the former station building and platform on the left beyond the entrance to the old goods yard.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15281.jpg "Dunragit")
![Something missing? View south east from the end of Station Street on 31 May 2007 showing the large gap left by the recent demolition of the old Stranraer Town station building. [See image 3412]<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15283.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![View south along the Water of Luce on 31 May 2007 at the point where Glenluce Viaduct carried <I>The Port Road</I> across the valley just west of the town.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15291.jpg "Glenluce Viaduct")
![The former Dunragit station in May 2007. View north over the crossing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15312.jpg "Dunragit")
![The station remains at Kirkcowan in May 2007, looking south west between the platforms towards Stranraer. Over on the right cattle now graze where they were once loaded into trucks. Photographed from the realigned road that now runs through the former station site.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15427.jpg "Kirkcowan")
![Looking east from the level crossing at Castle Kennedy on 31 May showing the platform remains and converted station building.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15430.jpg "Castle Kennedy")
![Entrance to the former Castle Kennedy station - May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15431.jpg "Castle Kennedy")
![View west from the end of the platforms at the former Stranraer Town on 31 May 2007. The station building has recently been demolished.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15443.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![End of the line. Looking west from the platform at Stranraer Town in May 2007, with the former route through to Portpatrick disappearing into the undergrowth. In amongst the trees is the road bridge at the south end of Victoria Place.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15539.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Former locomotive shed at Newton Stewart looking east in May 2007, some 43 years after official closure.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/15000/15642.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![View north across the B733 road at the former Kirkcowan station, just west of Newton Stewart, on 31 May 2007. The road once crossed the station site on a bridge just off picture to the right and continued on the north side of the line. Since closure of the line in the 1960s the bridge has also been closed and the road now runs straight across the former trackbed.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/17000/17783.jpg "Kirkcowan")
![Remains of the former locomotive shed at Stranraer in May 2007. Located just to the east of Stranraer Town station, the shed was officially closed in October 1966. This building and part of the yard were subsequently used by a scrap merchant for several years, during which time the building received a new roof. <br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/24000/24079.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![The signal box at Dunragit, seen from the south side of the crossing in May 2007, looking east towards the site of Challoch Junction.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/24000/24327.jpg "Dunragit")
![View east from Stranraer Town station in May 2007, some 41 years after closure. To the left stood a large goods yard and locomotive shed, the surviving building of which can be seen in the centre background behind the blue container. Beyond the shed a large scrapyard occupies the 'V' between this route and the Harbour branch, which turns north west just around the curve at Stranraer Harbour Junction. Behind the camera the line once continued to Portpatrick, the last remnants of this section having been closed completely in 1959 [see image 15539].<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/27000/27110.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![The signal box at Dunragit on 31 May 2007. View is south over the level crossing with the remains of the former station (closed June 1965) just off picture to the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/36000/36353.jpg "Dunragit")
![The locomotive shed at Stranraer, latterly BR code 68C, was officially closed at the end of October 1966. The site saw subsequent use as part of a scrapyard, during which time the main shed acquired a new roof. The building is seen here in May 2007, having been abandoned for a second time. [See image 45827] <br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/48000/48407.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![The old goods yard at Newton Stewart in May 2007, now part of a plant hire operation, with the former goods shed still performing a useful function 42 years after closure of the line.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/50000/50646.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![Rear view of the old goods shed at Newton Sewart on 31 May 2007. It definitely looks much better from the front! [See image 50646]<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/51000/51041.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![Looking north along the old military road towards Glenluce Viaduct in the spring of 2007. [Ref query 7] <br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/56000/56990.jpg "Glenluce Viaduct")
![Part of the once extensive yards at Stranraer Town, seen here abandoned in May 2007. The building on the left is the former locomotive shed, while in the right background is the main stand at Stair Park, home of Stranraer FC. View is east, with the remains of Stranraer Town station behind the camera [see image 15443]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 31/05/2007]](/images/59000/59135.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![Scene at Gatehouse of Fleet looking west platform side in April 2008.<br><br>[Colin Miller 13/04/2008]](/images/23000/23155.jpg "Gatehouse of Fleet")
![The Stena Seacat ferry service from Belfast prepares to dock at Stranraer Harbour on 29 July 2008, while a First Scotrail 156 DMU awaits passengers at the station platform.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/07/2008]](/images/20000/20425.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Looking back through Stranraer Harbour station from the buffer stops on 1 August 2008. The station signal box now appears to be permanently switched out with only the platform line in use.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/08/2008]](/images/20000/20429.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View along the platform line at Staranraer Harbour station towards the buffer stops on 1 August 2008. [See image 34557]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/08/2008]](/images/20000/20451.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Platform view at Stranraer Harbour station looking towards the town on 1 August 2008. [See image 20451]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/08/2008]](/images/34000/34557.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Looking to Portpatrick from the eastbound platform at Stranraer Town in 2008.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/10/2008]](/images/21000/21186.jpg "Stranraer Town")
![A sprinter passes some time whilst the lone passenger walks up and down the platform to stay warm.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/10/2008]](/images/23000/23106.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![The Big Water of Fleet Viaduct in the evening sun on 9 April 2010. The original granite piers were reinforced with brick outer casings and the arches with old rails between 1927 and 1945 to enable the viaduct to cope with increasingly heavy trains.<br><br>[John Gray 09/04/2010]](/images/28000/28505.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![Part of the Stroan Viaduct crossing the southern edge of Loch Stroan on the former <I>Port Road</I> between New Galloway and Gatehouse of Fleet stations. View west towards Stranraer on 12 May at the point where the Black Water of Dee leaves the Loch on its way south to join the Solway Firth in Kirkcudbright Bay.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/05/2010]](/images/28000/28983.jpg "Stroan Viaduct")
![The attractively refurbished station building at Gatehouse of Fleet, photographed looking north from the road on 12 May 2010. Even by the standards of railway station remoteness often found in this part of the country, nearly seven miles is a bit of a hike from the village!<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/05/2010]](/images/29000/29087.jpg "Gatehouse of Fleet")
![Standing between the remains of the platforms at New Galloway on 12 May. The view is west towards Stranraer with the converted station house in the left background [see image 29120]. Beyond the road bridge the trackbed is now a walkway leading to Loch Skerrow and Gatehouse station.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/05/2010]](/images/29000/29119.jpg "New Galloway")
![The former New Galloway station looking east from the bridge towards Dumfries on 12 May 2010. The main building has been significantly modified and extended since the station closed in June 1965 and much of the site now forms part of a large garden, although sections of the once lengthy platforms remain beyond the hedge [see image 29119]. The station is located in the hamlet of Mossdale, some 5 miles from New Galloway itself.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/05/2010]](/images/29000/29120.jpg "New Galloway")
![The overgrown platform at Gatehouse of Fleet on 12 May 2010. View is west towards Stanraer.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/05/2010]](/images/29000/29274.jpg "Gatehouse of Fleet")
![The Stroan Viaduct carried the Dumfries - Stranraer line across the southern narrows of Loch Stroan between New Galloway and Gatehouse of Fleet stations. Photographed looking south over the Loch on 12 May 2010. The old trackbed is now a walkway.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/05/2010]](/images/29000/29509.jpg "Stroan Viaduct")
![View east along the trackbed of <I>The Port Road</I> towards Dumfries from below the road bridge at the west end of the former New Galloway station. The line ran straight ahead through the shrubbery with the much modified station building (now a private residence) standing on the right. The remains of the platforms can still be seen looking back from the other end of the site beyond what is now a private garden. Photographed on 12 May 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/05/2010]](/images/29000/29760.jpg "New Galloway")
![View south over Loch Stroan towards the Stroan Viaduct, which carried the Dumfries - Stranraer line across the southern narrows of the Loch between New Galloway and Gatehouse of Fleet. Just beyond the viaduct the Black Water of Dee exits the Loch and runs south towards Kirkcudbright Bay and the Solway Firth. The line closed in 1965.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/05/2010]](/images/30000/30418.jpg "Stroan Viaduct")
![Looking west along the trackbed of the Port Road towards Stranraer over the Stroan Viaduct on 12 May 2010. [See image 28983] [Ref query 3760]<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/05/2010]](/images/53000/53091.jpg "Stroan Viaduct")
![The former New Galloway station on 12 May 2010 looking west along the down platform towards Lochskerrow. In the background the trackbed passes below the road bridge carrying the A762 (the top of which is visible) at which point it now becomes a walkway. [See image 29760] [Ref query 5283]<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/05/2010]](/images/54000/54273.jpg "New Galloway")
![When Portpatrick station closed to passengers and goods in 1950 the branch was cut back to the intermediate station of Colfin where goods services continued for a further nine years, possibly serving the old creamery seen here because there is nothing else in the area [See image 33026]. Despite the length of time since closure the old platform is still visible but little else.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/05/2011]](/images/34000/34180.jpg "Colfin")
![Although the short lived 1:35 branch from Portpatrick station to the Harbour was closed as early as 1868, a section of embankment and two bridge abutments still survive on Main St as seen here. This view is looking up the hill towards the site of the station where this road and the branch met again. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 22/05/2011]](/images/34000/34240.jpg "Portpatrick Harbour")
![156501 passes the old platform at Dunragit as it draws to a halt in the loop for the token exchange. This covers the next single line section to Glenwhilly. The train is the 1005 Stranraer to Glasgow Central. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/05/2011]](/images/34000/34191.jpg "Dunragit")
![Only a short distance for 156449 to go before reaching Stranraer Harbour as it passes over the disused connection to the Stranraer Town freight facilities. Former railway land to the left of the train is now in other use and Town station is just beyond the white lorry at the end of the yard. Picture taken from overbridge at NX 073604. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/05/2011]](/images/34000/34207.jpg "Stranraer Harbour Junction")
![Most of the Glenluce station site has been built over since the 1965 closure of the <I>Port Road</I>. However, at the east end is a small car park overlooked by this road overbridge and with the low retaining wall still intact. View towards Newton Stewart.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/05/2011]](/images/34000/34267.jpg "Glenluce")
![The old station site at Glenluce, as seen from the overbridge, on a very wet morning in May 2011. This view looks west towards Challoch Junction where the line from Girvan was joined. Although there is little trace of the station itself Glenluce viaduct, to the west of the village, still stands and is a fine monument to the <I>Port Road</I>. [See image 15291]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/05/2011]](/images/34000/34312.jpg "Glenluce")
![As 156501 draws to a halt the Dunragit signalman has crossed to the Up Line to receive the single line token from Stranraer Harbour and hand over that for the next section to Glenwhilly. For the passengers who appreciate it a beautiful stretch of line lies ahead, climbing through the Luce Valley and onto the high moorlands between there and Girvan.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/05/2011]](/images/34000/34327.jpg "Dunragit")
![Two bridges in retirement in May 2011. In the foreground is the old A75 road bridge, which since the Glenluce bypass was completed has only carried a farm access road. Beyond, also spanning the River Luce, is the single track railway viaduct that carried <I>The Port Road</I> until closure in 1965. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/05/2011]](/images/34000/34369.jpg "Glenluce Viaduct")
![156449 is on the last part of its journey to the Harbour station at Stanraer and just about to swing into the shallow cutting that leads down to the breakwater. Directly above the train the roof of Stranraer steam shed can be seen over the trees [See image 15270] with the disused lines to Stranraer Town to the left.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/05/2011]](/images/34000/34531.jpg "Stranraer Harbour Junction")
![The view east towards Castle Kennedy from the small overbridge near Stranraer Town as 156449 heads for the port. The building on the right was formerly part of the rail freight handling facilities at this location. [See image 34207] for the view west from the same bridge.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 23/05/2011]](/images/35000/35662.jpg "Stranraer Harbour Junction")
![The first down train of the day is almost on the sea wall as it drops down the link line from Stranraer Town station to the Harbour on 25 May 2011. 156506 will, after a 40 minute layover in the quayside station, head back north on the 2 1/2 hour run to Glasgow. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/05/2011]](/images/34000/34232.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Stranraer Harbour still has a flexible layout with mechanical signalling and run round loops but for the normal timetabled service the box is switched out and the Sprinter shuttles in and out with the single line token from Dunragit. The functional train shed has greatly improved weather protection for this exposed location in recent years. [See image 1056] for the same scene forty years earlier.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/05/2011]](/images/34000/34269.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Looking back along the breakwater from the platform end at Harbour station towards Stranraer itself. This picture shows the one line that remains in regular use, the switched out signals and the other rusty (although still usable) track and pointwork. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/05/2011]](/images/34000/34338.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Ferry connection made. Scotrail 156506 looks out from the Harbour trainshed as <I>MV Stena Caledonia</I> turns after reversing out of its berth and heads into Loch Ryan with a Belfast sailing. A number of the passengers on the ferry had arrived on the first train from Glasgow - and others who had arrived on the ship now joined it for a 10.05hrs departure north. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/05/2011]](/images/34000/34389.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Compared to their English cousins the Corkerhill 156s lead a varied life. One day they are working intensive suburban services around Glasgow and the next off to west coast outposts such as Oban, Mallaig or Stranraer Harbour as seen here. 156506 has connected with the Northern Ireland ferry and will soon head for Glasgow but will be back later in the day with another service. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/05/2011]](/images/35000/35271.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![The Portpatrick branch rose steeply onto the headland from the terminus before looping round and continuing the climb over the moors to Stranraer Town. For anyone in Portpatrick with half an hour to spare the walk through the rocky cutting on the headland and then back along the cliff top path seen here is highly recommended. View towards Portpatrick at Map Ref NX 003535. [See image 33026] for an OS map of the branch prior to closure in 1950.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/05/2011]](/images/34000/34253.jpg "Portpatrick")
![The grey house in the foreground sat at the buffers end of Portpatrick station platform although the station buildings themselves, which were behind it, have disappeared along with all other traces of the railway. View is west towards the coast in May 2011, with Old Station Court, a modern housing development, now occupying the station site. Trains climbed away from the camera before turning through 180 degrees to head for Stranraer. The road drops down to the village and harbour.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/05/2011]](/images/34000/34283.jpg "Portpatrick")
![A view from Portpatrick headland along the old trackbed towards the terminus in May 2011. This is where the branch emerged from the clifftop cutting and curved round as it dropped towards the station at the head of the small valley. An underbridge was still in place by the large house when the 1999 OS map was printed but has since been removed for the access track seen here. The line closed completely in 1950. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/05/2011]](/images/34000/34493.jpg "Portpatrick")
![Trackbed level view through the Portpatrick headland cutting looking, at this point, south south east. From the station the line climbed steeply and turned through almost 180 degrees to head inland towards Colfin and Stranraer. [See image 34253] for the view of this location from the cliff top.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 27/05/2011]](/images/35000/35343.jpg "Portpatrick")
![Platform scene at Stranraer Harbour on 6 March 2012. The efforts of Louis Wall's station adoption group are certainly brightening up what might otherwise be a fairly gloomy scene on such a day.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 06/03/2012]](/images/37000/37889.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![View over Loch Ken Viaduct looking east in April 2012. It appears to be in good condition apart from the decking either side of the trackbed.<br><br>[John Gray 25/04/2012]](/images/38000/38829.jpg "Loch Ken Viaduct")
![View of Loch Ken Viaduct in April 2012 from the west side of the loch.<br><br>[John Gray 25/04/2012]](/images/38000/38862.jpg "Loch Ken Viaduct")
![Loch Ken viaduct from the west bank looking north in April 2012. [See image 38829]<br><br>[John Gray 25/04/2012]](/images/38000/38897.jpg "Loch Ken Viaduct")
![Now owned by Sustrans and hopefully to become part of a footpath/cycleway, the Big Water of Fleet Viaduct is viewed from the hills on the west side of the valley on 26/04/2012.<br><br>[John Gray 26/04/2012]](/images/38000/38836.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![The former Creetown Station is now a private dwelling, seen here in May 2012. The owner has kept the old station's origins alive with the brake van close by. [See image 38855]<br><br>[John Gray /05/2012]](/images/38000/38849.jpg "Creetown")
![Standing alongside the former Creetown Station, the old goods shed also enjoys a new lease of life as a private dwelling. [See image 38849]<br><br>[John Gray /05/2012]](/images/38000/38855.jpg "Creetown")
![The impressive twenty arch Big Water of Fleet Viaduct looking south in May 2012.<br><br>[John Gray /05/2012]](/images/38000/38955.jpg "Big Water of Fleet Viaduct")
![The 12.36 service to Glasgow Central waits to leave Stranraer Harbour on 24 May 2012.<br><br>[Colin Miller 24/05/2012]](/images/38000/38986.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Stena Line no more - Stranraer Harbour 24 May 2012. <br><br>[Colin Miller 24/05/2012]](/images/39000/39265.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Wide view of Stranraer Harbour station from the east in the monsoon of 3 July 2012.<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/07/2012]](/images/39000/39494.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Since last September this McLeans electric bus has connected Stranraer Station, the town centre and Cairnryan ferry terminals. Photographed alongside the station on 13 February. <br><br>[John Yellowlees 13/02/2014]](/images/46000/46298.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![A panorama photograph showing Glenluce Viaduct, formerly part of the Dumfries to Stranraer <I>Port Road</I>, until closure in 1965. View is south on 30 April 2014.<br><br>[John Gray 30/04/2014]](/images/47000/47448.jpg "Glenluce Viaduct")
![The once busy Stranraer Signal Box on 30 April 2014. The box is now open only for special train workings.<br><br>[John Gray 30/04/2014]](/images/48000/48989.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![A general view of Stranraer Station looking inland in April 2014, also visible is part of the once busy ferry terminal, now closed and completely fenced off.<br><br>[John Gray 30/04/2014]](/images/48000/48999.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![No ferries call at Stranraer Harbour anymore. The docking facilities are all fenced off and there is an air of decay about the place now, with everything rusting away.<br><br>[John Gray 30/04/2015]](/images/59000/59388.jpg "Stranraer")
![Looking east over Loch Ken Viaduct towards Castle Douglas on 4 July 2015. The last train services over the former <I>Port Road</I> between Dumfries and Stranraer ran in June 1965. [See image 32258]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 04/07/2015]](/images/51000/51864.jpg "Loch Ken Viaduct")
![Seafaring relics at Stranraer Harbour Station, 26 August 2015.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 26/08/2015]](/images/52000/52373.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Scene at Stranraer on 26 August 2015, with the 1443 service to Kilmarnock at the platform and silk flowers by Louis Wall enlivening the station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 26/08/2015]](/images/52000/52383.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Silk anemones by Louis Wall at Stranraer on 26 August 2015. [See image 52383]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 26/08/2015]](/images/52000/52395.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![A wild and windswept Stranraer Harbour on the afternoon of 25 April 2016. Just visible at the platform in the distance is the 1659 departure for Glasgow Central via Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 25/04/2016]](/images/54000/54946.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Arrival at Stranraer on an autumn afternoon in November 2016. The train is the 1412 ex-Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 01/11/2016]](/images/56000/56992.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![Waiting for a train. Stranraer Harbour, 1 November 2016.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 01/11/2016]](/images/57000/57095.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![The passenger, Stranraer, 1 November 2016.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 01/11/2016]](/images/57000/57173.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![A memento of the former station name at Stranraer Harbour.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/12/2016]](/images/57000/57624.jpg "Stranraer")
![Flowers brightening Stranraer station on an otherwise drab day.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 02/02/2017]](/images/59000/59028.jpg "Stranraer")
![Stena no more. The quayside alongside Stranraer station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58631.jpg "Stranraer")
![Despite appearances, Stranraer pier is not equipped with bouncy castles.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58632.jpg "Stranraer")
![Stranraer plaque - unveiled today in memory of the SAYLSA company secretary James McKenzie Wilson who died last month.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58633.jpg "Stranraer")
![The former locomotive shed at Newton Stewart, officially closed on the last day of 1959.The building looks to be in a better condition than it was 10 years ago, having since been taken over by a vehicle servicing and repair company and equipped with a new roof [see image 15246]. View north east towards the station site in May 2017 along the trackbed of the Whithorn branch.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 22/05/2017]](/images/59000/59411.jpg "Newton Stewart")
![The 12.53hrs arrival at Stranraer Harbour on 26th October 2017. The signal box is switched out and all track, except to Platform 1, is very rusty indeed.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 26/10/2017]](/images/61000/61570.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![The 'crowd' waiting to embark on the 13.04 which goes to Kilmarnock (change at Ayr for Glasgow) while the 'crowd' on the arrived 12.53 is about to disembark.<br><br>[Colin Miller 26/10/2017]](/images/61000/61635.jpg "Stranraer")
![The only remaining part of Stranraer MPD, now in a scrapyard which itself appears closed.<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/10/2017]](/images/61000/61826.jpg "Stranraer Shed")
![The 13.04 to Kilmarnock comes off the causeway from Stranraer Harbour station and is about to pass under the A77 road bridge. 29th October 2017.<br>
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<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/10/2017]](/images/62000/62059.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![The 13.04hrs for Kilmarnock emerges from the trainshed at Stranraer Harbour on 29th October 2017.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/10/2017]](/images/63000/63119.jpg "Stranraer Harbour")
![<a href=http://www.saylsa.org target=external>SAYLSA</a> (Stranraer to Ayr Line Support Association) company secretary Jim Wilson seen here at Stranraer on 14 December died suddenly on 4 February aged 65.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/12/2017]](/images/58000/58081.jpg "Stranraer")
