Gretna Junction to Glasgow St. Enoch Junctions and other features Running Lines Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions Distance from Signal Box above Loops and Refuge Sidings Notes Up Down Maximum permissible speed 75 m.p.h. Gretna Junction and Stewarton Maximum permissible speed 70 m.p.h. Stewarton and Strathbungo Junction 1 1 – ↓ Gretna Junction – 2 ↑↓ Gretna Green Station 1m 415yds DGL 67 UGL 62 c. 6.12.1965 (Rigg) c. 1.11.1942 3 ↑↓ Eastriggs 5m 142yds DGL 64 UGL 63 c. 6.12.1965 4 ↑↓ Annan Station 2m 1559yds DRS 45 5 ↑↓ Cummertrees 3m 480yds c. 19.9.1955 6 ↑↓ Ruthwell 3m 541yds DGL 57 UGL 59 c. 6.12.1965 7 ↑↓ Racks Junction 4m 981yds DRS 39 URS 40 c. 6.12.1965 8 ↑↓ Dumfries South 3m 590yds 9 ↑↓ Dumfries Station 0m 1421yds 10 ↑↓ Holywood 3m 423yds DRS 39 UGL 67 11 ↑↓ Auldgirth 4m 92yds DGL 86 URS 38 c. 3.11.1952 12 ↑↓ Closeburn Station 4m 301yds DRS 38 URS 34 c. 11.9.1961 13 ↑↓ Thornhill Station 2m 794yds DRS 48 UGL 72 c. 6.12.1965 14 ↑↓ Carronbridge 3m 641yds c. 7.12.1953 15 ↑↓ Sanquhar Station 8m 1650yds DRS 42 URS 55 c. 6.12.1965 16 ↑↓ Gateside 0m 1488yds 17 ↑↓ Kirkconnel Station 2m 720yds DGL 45 UGL 49 18 ↑↓ New Cumnock Station 7m 594yds DRS 46 UGL 50 c. 6.12.1965 19 ↑↓ Bank Junction 0m 1377yds URS 50 20 ↑↓ Cumnock Station 4m 1106yds c. 6.12.1965 21 ↑↓ Auchinleck Junction 1m 1612yds URS 37 URS 60 c. 6.12.1965 22 ↑↓ Barony Junction 1m 569yds DRS 39 23 ↑↓ Brackenhill Junction 0m 1729yds 24 ↑↓ Mauchline No.2 1m 1650yds DRS 21 c. 6.12.1965 25 ↕↑ ↓ Mauchline No.1 0m 444yds 26 ↑↓ Garrochburn 2m 1012yds 27 ↑↓ Bowhouse 3m 1000yds 28 ↑↓ Hurlford 1m 440yds DRS 53 UPL 62 c. 7.3.1955 29 ↑↓ Kay Park Junction 1m 138yds 30 ↑↓↓ Kilmarnock No.3 0m 1213yds 31 ↑↑↑ ↓ Kilmarnock No.4 (Controls No.5 platform line only) 0m 286yds 32 ↑↑↑↓Kilmarnock No.2 0m 301yds 33 ↑↓ Kilmarnock No.1 0m 456yds 34 ↑ ↓ Kilmaurs Station 1m 1138yds c. 7.11.1966 35 ↑↓ Stewarton Station 3m 527yds DGL 34 URS 34 36 ↑↓ Dunlop 2m 380yds URS 32 37 ↑↓ Lugton Junction 2m 308yds DRS 38 URS 38 c. 7.11.1966 38 ↑↓ Caldwell Station 1m 946yds DRS 45 39 ↑↓ Neilston Low 2m 1597yds c. 7.11.1966 40 ↑↓↓↓ Barrhead South 2m 444yds 41 ↑↑↓Barrhead Junction 0m 499yds 42 ↑↓ Nitshill Station 1m 680yds DRS 39 DRS 30 URS 31 43 ↑↓ Kennishead Station 1m 414yds 44 ↑↓ Busby Junction 0m 1386yds 45 ↑↓↓↓↓ Pollokshaws West South 0m 990yds 46 ↑↑ ↓ Pollokshaws West North 0m 528yds 47 ↑↓ Crossmyloof 0m 836yds URS 42 48 ↑↓ Strathbungo Junction 0m 1320yds URS 36 c. 28.5.1962 49 ↑↓ Langside Junction 0m 682yds 50 — ↑ – Glasgow St. Enoch Station 1m 330yds c. 27.6.1966 1 Langside Junction – 2 Larkfield Junction 0m 166yds 1. The line between Gretna Jn and Carlisle was duplicated in the L.M.R. Western Lines North and the L.M.R. Central lines Sectional Appendices. Strictly speaking this link should go to the Western Lines, but in deference to the fact that this was, after all, a part of the Midland Railway's route to the Scotland, I have linked to the Central Lines. Links to the Western lines can be found on that page. Links
This is a track and signalling schedule from the original British Railways 1960 archive, compiled by Brian Robertson. It records the running lines, junctions, signal boxes, and stations along this section as worked in the nationalisation era.
Source: the original britishrailways1960.co.uk archive (Brian Robertson, 2003 to 2013), restored from the site’s own records. Corrections welcome via the contribute page.
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