Disused railway lines and closed stations in Dumfries and Galloway

192 miles of disused railway
77 closed stations
7 stations open today
25 named lost lines

Dumfries and Galloway has 192 miles of disused railway and 77 closed stations, against 7 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 11.0 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Portpatrick Railway, with 31 miles of its route inside Dumfries and Galloway.

See Dumfries and Galloway’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 192 miles of lost railway in Dumfries and Galloway break down as 151 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 24 miles with track still in place but no trains, 16 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.7 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Dumfries and Galloway

25 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Dumfries and Galloway; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Portpatrick Railway	31
Challoch Junction to Dumfries Line	20
Cairn Valley Light Railway	16
Whithorn Branch	13
Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway	12
Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway	11
Kirkcudbright Railway	9.3
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway	7.3
Cairnryan Line	7.2
Annan Branch	6.7
Riddings Junction to Langholm Branch	6.6
Tramway	2.2
Maxwelltown Railway Path	1.8
Lead Mine Tramway	1.6
Moffat Branch	1.6
Garlieston Branch	1.2
Solway Viaduct	1.1
Stranraer Line	1.1
Cochran & Cos Siding	0.9
Kirkcudbright Branch	0.7
Leadhills Branch	0.7
Dumfries Branch	0.6
Portpatrick Harbour Branch	0.4
Shawfield Fork	0.4
Stranraer Town Branch	0.3

Closed railway stations in Dumfries and Galloway

All 77 closed and former stations in Dumfries and Galloway, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Dumfries and Galloway

7 stations in Dumfries and Galloway still have a train service. The busiest are Dumfries (346,310 a year), Lockerbie (210,848 a year), Annan (127,412 a year), Gretna Green (51,464 a year) and Stranraer (30,196 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Cumbria, North Ayrshire, Scottish Borders and Argyll and Bute.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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