Shieldhill
General information
Location	Shieldhill, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland
Coordinates	55°09′04″N 3°31′18″W / 55.1511°N 3.5216°W / 55.1511; -3.5216Coordinates: 55°09′04″N 3°31′18″W / 55.1511°N 3.5216°W / 55.1511; -3.5216
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 September 1863[1]	Opened
19 May 1952[1]	Closed

Shieldhill railway station was a station which served Shieldhill, in the Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It was served by trains on a local line which ran between the Caledonian Main Line (now known as the West Coast Main Line) at Lockerbie and the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway at Dumfries.

History[edit]

Opened by the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway,^[1] then part of the Caledonian Railway it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways during the nationalisation of 1948. It was then closed by British Railways.^[1]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Amisfield Line and station closed		Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway Caledonian Railway		Lochmaben Line and station closed

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Sources[edit]

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map