This station, between Leadhills, in Lanarkshire, and Wanlockhead, in Dumfries and Galloway, is the highest point on the Leadhills and Wanlockhead narrow gauge railway. This is currently a tourist railway but it used to be part of a commercially important railway, for both freight (usually lead ) and passengers. Before it closed, it formed part of the highest standard gauge railway in the UK. It was a branch of the Caledonian Railway. The passenger trains on this railway operated i...
