Annan railway station

Annan
Frontage of Annan station; built in 1848 in the Italianate style, the main building is now a pub/restaurant and B&B.
Location
Place	Annan
Local authority	Dumfries and Galloway
Coordinates
Grid reference	NY193661
Operations
Station code	ANN
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.113 million
2005/06	0.116 million
2006/07	0.094 million
2007/08	0.100 million
2008/09	0.113 million
2009/10	0.111 million
2010/11	0.117 million
2011/12	0.126 million
2012/13	0.128 million
2013/14	0.130 million
History
Original company	Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Annan from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Annan railway station serves the town of Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow South Western Line 17½ miles (28 km) north west of Carlisle and is managed by Abellio ScotRail who provide nearly all passenger train services with Northern Rail running two to Newcastle.

Until the early 1980s, the goods yard at Annan station was still in regular use. The station was also used for the dispatch of fresh fish to London until the mid to late 1980s.

Shortly after leaving Annan station on a westbound service to Dumfries, the line crosses a viaduct over the River Annan and adjoining flood plains. Also just to the west of Annan is a disused junction and dismantled line heading south to the Cochran's Boiler plant at Newbie.

History

Siding round the back of the station

Opened by the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, then run by the Glasgow and South Western Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

In 1975, the section of line eastwards to Gretna Junction was singled by British Rail as part of the West Coast Main Line electrification & re-signalling scheme, with control shared between the power box at Carlisle and the signal box at the station. However the second track was re-instated in 2008 by Network Rail to help deal with increased traffic levels (mainly train loads of imported coal from the deep water terminal at Hunterston to power stations in the East Midlands & West Yorkshire).

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail.

Annan Shawhill railway station

Main article: Annan Shawhill railway station

At one point in its history, Annan was served by two railway stations (1870–1931). Annan Shawhill station was on the long-disused Solway Junction Railway which ran from Kirtlebridge on the current West Coast Main Line through the east side of Annan, across the Solway Firth and on to Maryport in Cumbria.

Services

There is generally a two-hourly service southbound to Carlisle (with extra trains on Saturdays) and northbound to Dumfries, Kilmarnock and Glasgow Central. A few southbound trains continue beyond Carlisle to Newcastle via the Tyne Valley line.

On Sundays four trains a day head southbound to Carlisle and northbound to Dumfries, with two of the latter continuing through to Glasgow Central.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Gretna Green		Abellio ScotRail Glasgow South Western Line		Dumfries
	Historical railways
Eastriggs Line open; station closed		Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway		Cummertrees Line open; station closed
Bowness Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway Solway Junction Railway		link to Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway