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.

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 and . With a sparse local population, there was no longer a need for a station, so it closed on 9 September 1963. The line was closed in 1965.

Loch Skerrow Halt railway station

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.

Loch Skerrow Halt railway station

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Disused railway stations in Dumfries and Galloway

Former Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway stations

Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1955

Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1963

Beeching closures in Scotland

1955 establishments in Scotland

1963 disestablishments in Scotland

Loch Skerrow Halt railway station