• Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway (G&PJR) was a railway company in Scotland. It opened in 1877 between Girvan and Challoch Junction, where it joined...
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    Parliament, the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway Act 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. ccclviii), authorising the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway (G&PJR)...
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    and has a ruling gradient of 1 in 54. The station was opened on 5 October 1877 by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway and was known as Girvan...
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  • The Maybole and Girvan Junction Railway was a railway company that constructed a line between Maybole and Girvan. Although promoted independently, it was...
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    Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway (G&PJR) obtained an authorising act of Parliament[which?] on 5 July 1865 to close the gap. Raising money, and...
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    permit this and so when the line was built the Girvan New station was opened on 5 October 1877 by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway on the route...
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    Glasgow South Western Line (category Railway lines in Scotland)
    Ayr and Maybole Junction Railway 1860 – Maybole to Girvan by the Maybole and Girvan Railway 1861 – Challoch to Stranraer by the Portpatrick Railway 1866...
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    Pinwherry railway station served the village of Pinwherry, South Ayrshire, Scotland from 1887 to 1965 on the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway. The station...
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    railway station, located in Wigtownshire, Scotland, served the town of Stranraer and was a station on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway....
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    Luce railway station served the village of New Luce, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland from 1887 to 1965 on the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway. The...
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    Glenwhilly railway station served the area of Glenwhilly, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland from 1887 to 1965 on the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway. The...
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    Pinmore railway station served the hamlet of Pinmore, South Ayrshire, Scotland from 1877 to 1965 on the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway. The station...
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    the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway on 5 October 1877. The station was briefly closed between 7 February 1882 and 16 February 1882, and between...
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    Colfin railway station, located in Wigtownshire, Scotland, between Portpatrick and Stranraer, was a station on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint...
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    1965 on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. The station opened on 1 July 1861 by the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. The signal...
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  • Highland Railway, known as the Clyde Bogies. Two locomotives built in 1887, which had been ordered by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway, were delivered...
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    1 October 1862 by the Portpatrick Railway; however, the current station buildings date from 1877 under the Portpatrick Railways Act 1877. The original...
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    Anderson's College Glasgow Act 1877 c. xii Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway Act 1877 c. xiii Glasgow Markets and Slaughter-houses Act 1877 c. xiv. — repealed...
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    Douglas at its junction with the road to Kirkmichael just north of Dalmellington. Patna lies between the villages of Polnessan and Waterside, and the River...
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    Opened to serve the Killochan Castle estate and surrounding population in 1860 by the Maybole and Girvan Railway it closed in 1951. before the era of the...
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  • back the scheme to reach Girvan only. It received its authorising act of Parliament, the Glasgow and Belfast Union Railway Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c....
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    1879 c. ccviii Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway Act 1879 c. ccix Ballymena and Portglenone Railway Act 1879 c. ccx Ramsgate and Margate Tramways...
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    1865. The Portpatrick Railway had opened between Castle Douglas and Portpatrick in 1861–62 and the Caledonian Railway worked that railway; it obtained...
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    facility named Grangeston Halt that was located on the Maybole and Girvan Railway line and closed in 1965. "At the onset of the Second World War (1939-1945)...
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  • the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway opened its line across challenging terrain in 1877. It joined the Portpatrick Railway at Challoch Junction, entering...
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    Keith and Elgin for Highland Railway services to Inverness. There were other junctions with the Highland Railway at Boat of Garten and Portessie, and at...
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  • Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 106) Railways Construction Facilities Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 121) Railways (Powers and Construction) Acts 1864, Amendment...
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  • Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. cxliv) Wigan Junction Railways Act 1874 Metropolitan and South Western Junction Railway Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. cxc) Paddington...
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    Inverness, Perth, Nairn, Moray and Banff. Southward it connected with the Caledonian Railway at Stanley Junction, north of Perth, and eastward with the Great...
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  • The Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway was a railway company that built an east-west railway (known as the Edinburgh Suburban Line or more...
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