Gretna Green railway station


Gretna Green railway station serves the village of Gretna Green and the town of Gretna in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow South Western Line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by Abellio ScotRail who provide all passenger train services.

History

The station was opened by the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway on 23 August 1848 as Gretna. The Glasgow and South Western Railway renamed the station as Gretna Green in April 1852.
On 6 December 1965, the station was closed and the station building was sold. In 1975, the site of the station became the eastern end of the single line section to, as part of the route rationalisation carried out by British Rail following the electrification of the West Coast Main Line.
The station was reopened in September 1993 by British Rail, with just one platform on the northern side of the line to the west of the previous station, coinciding with the western end of the points marking the end of the single track section from Annan.
The second platform came into use when the line to Annan was restored to double track in August 2008.
The Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway station was one of three serving Gretna, the others being:
On Monday to Saturdays, There is a regular hourly service to both Dumfries and Carlisle with a train roughly every 2 hours to Kilmarnock and Glasgow Central, 3 of the Carlisle trains extend through to Newcastle,
On Sundays there are five departures for Carlisle and four for Dumfries, two of which run through to Glasgow.

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