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Stepford (NX864815) was one of the minor request stop stations on the Cairn Valley Light Railway branch from Dumfries. It served a very rural area in Dumfries and Galloway The line was closed to passengers during the Second World War.〔Awdry, page 64〕 Cairn Valley Junction lay to the east. == History == The CVR was nominally independent, but was in reality controlled by the Glasgow and South Western Railway.〔Sanders, page 50〕 The line was closed to passengers on 3 May 1943, during the Second World War〔 and to freight on 4 July 1949,〔Thomas, page 203〕 and the track lifted in 1953. The station was very basic with just a short wooden platform with a tin shelter and a siding with a loading bank for goods traffic.〔Kirkpatrick, Page 21〕 A station master's house was provided, designed by the company with a pyramid roof truncated by a central chimney stack.〔 The shelter had been demolished by 1949.〔 The station master's house, a simple cottage, rather than the standard company design, survives as a private dwelling. Morrington Quarry was nearby and was rail connected,〔Kirkpatrick, Page 45〕 however the contract was lost to a road haulier in around 1943.〔Kirkpatrick, Page 71〕 The siding was worked by down trains only, goods for Dumfries being taken to the nearest station along. The points were unlocked with an Annett's key that was kept in a locked box on a post adjacent to the point.〔Kirkpatrick, Page 91〕 Trains were controlled by a 'lock and block' system whereby the trains operated treadles on the single line to interact with the block instruments.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stepford railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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