Ecclefechan railway station

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Ecclefechan
Ecclefechan
Location
Place	Ecclefechan
Area	Dumfries and Galloway
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Grid reference	NY1811575423
Operations
Original company	Caledonian Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
10 September 1847	Station opens
13 June 1960	Station close
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Ecclefechan railway station was a station which served the rural area around Ecclefechan, south of Lockerbie in Applegarth parish, Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It was served by local trains on what is now known as the West Coast Main Line. The nearest station for Ecclefechan is now at Lockerbie.

History

Opened by the Caledonian Railway,^[1] it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923 and was then closed by British Railways in 1960. The station had a goods shed with a signal box on the platform next to it. Several sidings were present and a minor road to Nether Collinhirst had run through the site.^[2]

Accidents and incidents

On 28 January 1854 an accident occurred near Ecclefechan when a goods train which left Glasgow for Carlisle on the evening of the 27th, was, after repeated mishaps, brought to a stand between the Ecclefechan and Kirtlebridge stations. The train was run into by a passenger train going in the same direction, at Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). from Ecclefechan. The injuries to the passengers were not serious; two ladies suffered slightly, and the driver was hurt when he jumped from the engine of the passenger train, which, as well as the van of the goods train, was badly damaged.^[3]
On 21 July 1945, an express passenger train overran signals and was in collision with a freight train that was being shunted. Two people were killed and 31 were injured.^[4]