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Shieldhill railway station

Disused railway stations in Dumfries and GallowayFormer Caledonian Railway stationsPages with no open date in Infobox stationRailway stations in Great Britain closed in 1952Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863
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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.

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