Sanquhar railway station

Sanquhar railway station is a railway station in the village of Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line. The old station buildings are in use as a holiday home. The station was re-opened (in 1994) together with Gretna Green, Auchinleck, New Cumnock, Kilmaurs and Dunlop after initially falling victim to the Beeching Axe in December 1965. Kirkconnel remained open but has also seen significant investment in its infrastructure.

Sanquhar Scottish Gaelic: Seanchair[1]
Sanquhar station from the road bridge looking towards Kirkconnel, in 2007
Location	Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland
Coordinates	55.3710°N 3.9248°W
Grid reference	NS780102
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SQH
Key dates
28 October 1850[2]	Opened
6 December 1965[2]	Closed
27 June 1994[3]	Re-opened under British Rail
Passengers
2015/16	24,532
2016/17	27,350
2017/18	28,724
2018/19	28,050
2019/20	24,258
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Railway Mishap 1966

On Sunday 14 August 1966, the previous evening's 22:10 Glasgow Central – London Euston consisting of five seating coaches, eight sleeping cars and two parcels vans hauled by EE Type 4 locomotive No. D311 crashed into a landslide between Sanquhar and Carrondale at 00:30. The loco and first ten coaches were derailed. None of the 270 passengers and four train crew were injured.[4]

Services

There is a two-hourly service in each direction (with one or two extras), southbound to Dumfries and Carlisle and northbound to Kilmarnock and Glasgow (the last southbound train terminates at Dumfries on weekdays only). There is also a single late-afternoon train each weekday through to Newcastle in the winter 2019-20 timetable.

The Sunday service is limited, with just two trains each way currently calling.[5]

See also

• Mennock Lye Goods Depot

References

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt 1995, p. 206.
3. http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Glasgow_Dumfries_and_Carlisle_Railway/frame.htm
4. Cooke, B.W.C., ed. (December 1966). "Rescue Work Rewarded: Four railwaymen share £300 gift from grateful passenger on derailed Anglo-Scottish express". Railway Magazine. Vol. 112 no. 788. pp. 686–688.
5. Table 216 National Rail timetable, December 2019

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (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.

External links

• Train times and station information for Sanquhar railway station from National Rail

Platform 1 and a train for Kirkconnel, in 2007

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  Nithsdale south of Sanquhar in 1961
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  Down freight on the Nithsdale Anglo-Scottish main line in 1961