Annan railway station

Annan
Siding round the back of the station
Location
Place	Annan
Local authority	Dumfries and Galloway
Operations
Station code	ANN
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.113 million
2005/06 *	0.116 million
2006/07 *	0.094 million
2007/08 *	0.100 million
2008/09 *	0.113 million
2009/10 *	0.111 million
History
Original company	Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Annan from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Annan railway station serves the town of Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow South Western Line 28 km (17½ miles) north west of Carlisle and is managed by First ScotRail who provide all passenger train services.

Until the early 1980s, the goods yard at Annan station was still in regular use. The station was also used for the dispatch of fresh fish to London until the mid to late 1980s.

Shortly after leaving Annan station on a westbound service to Dumfries, the line crosses a viaduct over the River Annan and adjoining flood plains. Also just to the West of Annan is a disused junction and dismantled line heading south to the Cochran's Boiler plant at Newbie.^[1]

Contents 1 History 2 Annan Shawhill railway station 3 Services 4 References 4.1 Notes 4.2 Sources

History

Opened by the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, then run by the Glasgow and South Western Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Railways.

Annan Shawhill railway station

At one point in its history, Annan was served by two railway stations (1870–1931). Annan Shawhill station was on the long-disused Solway Junction Railway which ran from Kirtlebridge on the current West Coast Main Line through the west side of Annan, across the Solway Firth and on to Maryport in Cumbria.

Services

There is generally a two-hourly service southbound to Carlisle and northbound to Dumfries and Kilmarnock.

On Sundays four trains a day head southbound to Carlisle and northbound to Dumfries.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Gretna Green		First ScotRail  Glasgow South Western Line		Dumfries
	Historical railways
Dornock Line open; station closed		Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway		Cummertrees Line open; station closed
Bowness Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway Solway Junction Railway		link to Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway

References

Notes

Sources

• 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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.