• Source: Millisle railway station

    • Millisle, later Millisle for Garlieston was a railway station that was near the junction for Garlieston on the Wigtownshire Railway branch line, from Newton Stewart to Whithorn, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. It served a rural area in Wigtownshire. The line was closed to passenger services in 1950, and to goods in 1964.


    History


    The station replaced Garliestontown that lay to the north and opened as a terminus in 1876. A shed was located there which was a combined goods shed and engine shed. A passing loop was present and a single platform at the station.
    Regular passenger services ceased on the Garlieston branch on 1 March 1903; Millisle was then renamed as Millisle for Garlieston.
    The station master's house survives as a private dwelling named Kilfillan Croft.


    Micro-history


    A Millisle Road Halt railway station existed on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Donaghadee in Northern Ireland.


    Other stations


    Newton Stewart - junction
    Causewayend
    Mains of Penninghame
    Wigtown
    Kirkinner
    Whauphill
    Sorbie
    Garlieston
    Broughton Skeog
    Whithorn


    References


    Notes

    Sources
    Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.


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    Disused stations

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