Holywood (Dumfries and Galloway) railway station

Holywood
Location
Area	Dumfries and Galloway
Operations
Original company	Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Platforms	2
History
15 October 1849	Opened as Killylung[1]
28 October 1850	Renamed as Holywood[1][2]
26 September 1949	Closed
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Holywood railway station was a railway station in Dumfries and Galloway north of Dumfries.

History

The station opened on 15 October 1849 as Killylung.^[1] Within a year it was renamed as Holywood.^[2] The station is now closed, although the line through the station is still open. One platform still exists and a level crossing controlled by a signal box. The small village of Holywood with its church stands a little way off and the old creamery stands close by to the station site.

Views of Holywood signal box and level crossing

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  The old station platform and line looking Dumfries

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  Holywood signal box

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  Detail of the level crossing gates

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  Looking towards Auldgirth

References

Notes

Sources

A train at Holywood level crossing

• 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. 
• RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway

Coordinates: 55°06′57″N 3°38′31″W / 55.1158°N 3.6420°W / 55.1158; -3.6420