Loch Skerrow Halt railway station was situated in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway.
History The station was opened as a public station on 13 June 1955 by British Railways. It had a siding and a signal box. The purpose of the station was to split the signalling section between and . With a sparse local population, there was little need for a station, so it closed to regular passengers on 9 September 1963. It remained an unadvertised station and was used occasionally until the line was closed in 1965.Dumfries & Galloway Curiosities by David Carroll - Google Books
Popular culture Richard Hannay, the hero of the 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan, reputedly got off a train here, fearing that he had become the prime suspect in a couple of murders in London.
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