Glenluce railway station
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| Glenluce station | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Glenluce |
| Area | Dumfries and Galloway |
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| Operations | |
| Original company | Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway |
| History | |
| 1862 | opened |
| 14 June 1965[1] | closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Glenluce station was a station open in 1862 on the former Port Road that was constructed on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway.[2][page needed]
It served the town of Glenluce and provided a strategic link between London Euston and the West Coast Main Line via Carlisle Citadel along the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway followed the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railway to the port at Stranraer for the ferries to Larne Harbour.[citation needed]
It was closed under the Beeching Axe in 1965.
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