Kirkinner railway station
Kirkinner | |||||
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Site of the station in 2000 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland | ||||
| Grid reference | NX420517 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Wigtownshire Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 2 August 1875 | Station opened | ||||
| 25 September 1950 | Station closed | ||||
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Kirkinner was a railway station on the Wigtownshire Railway branch line, from Newton Stewart to Whithorn, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. It served a rural area in Wigtownshire. Kirkinner is an area and village, 3 miles from Wigtown, bounded on the east by the bay of Wigtown, along which it extends for about three miles, and on the north by the River Bladnoch.