Loch Skerrow Halt railway station served the burgh of Skerrow, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, from 1955 to 1963 on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway.

Loch Skerrow Halt
The site of the station in 2019
General information
Location	Skerrow, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland
Coordinates	54.9895°N 4.1743°W / 54.9895; -4.1743
Grid reference	NX609682
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	British Railways (Scottish Region)
Key dates
13 June 1955 (1955-06-13)	Opened
9 September 1963 (1963-09-09)	Closed

History

The station opened on 13 June 1955 by the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. It had a siding and a signal box. The purpose of the station was to split the track between New Galloway and Gatehouse of Fleet. With a sparse local population, there was no longer a need for a station, so it closed on 9 September 1963.[1][2] The line was closed in 1965.[3]

Popular culture

Richard Hannay, the hero of the 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan, reputedly got off a train here, fearing that he had become the prime suspect in a couple of murders in London.[3][4]

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