Date: 20/02/2014

A campaign to reopen Beattock railway station is being backed by local Labour politicians.
Dumfriesshire MSP Elaine Murray and MP Russell Brown have met members of the station action group.
The campaigners believe that bringing the platform back into use would provide significant benefits to the community and the local economy.
Mr Brown, the joint chair of the all-party parliamentary group for the West Coast Main Line, backs that view.

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The campaign to reopen Beattock railway station in Dumfries and Galloway is backed by local politicians.

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Crab 42737 stands quietly at Beattock station on 29 March 1964, waiting to return to Glasgow Central with Scottish Rambler no 3. The fuss in the background centres around Beattock shed's BR Standard class 4 no 80001, which is in the process of banking out the down Royal Scot.
Location: Beattock
Company: Caledonian Railway
29/03/1964 John Robin

An up express hauled by a Standard Clan Pacific runs through Beattock station in July 1962.
Location: Beattock
Company: Caledonian Railway
14/07/1962 R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

6904 passing north through Beattock station in late 1972 with a down oil train.
Location: Beattock
Company: Caledonian Railway
16/09/1972 John Furnevel

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