Scotland
South West
Dumfries & Galloway

Dumfries railway station

Dumfries railway station serves the town of in , . It is located on the Glasgow South Western Line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by ScotRail who provide all passenger train services.
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  • Type: Railway station
  • Description: railway station in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “DMF”, “Dumfries Railway Station”, and “Dumfries station”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gracefield Arts Centre and Greyfriars Church, Dumfries.

Museum
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is located in . The gallery's main building, a Category B listed building, was bought in 1951 by a committee of local people who raised the money needed for the purchase and to do the alterations necessary to change the former house, which was known as ‘Gracefield’ into an art gallery. is situated 820 feet northwest of Dumfries railway station.

Church
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, is a Category A listed building in , in southwest . The current Greyfriars Church building was built from 1866 to 1868 in the Victorian Gothic style, designed by architect John Starforth. is situated 1,900 feet southwest of Dumfries railway station.

School
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is one of four secondary schools in in south west Scotland. It is a state funded secondary school for both girls and boys. The schools moto is "doctrina promovet" which translates from Latin to "learning promotes" which the school emphases within their "vision, values and aims". is situated 1,400 feet west of Dumfries railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dumfries and Maxwelltown.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the principal town of in southwest Scotland. It's a pleasant market town, with a population of 46,500 in 2020. Robert Burns the poet spent his last years here: from 1788 to 1791 at Ellisland Farm 7 miles north, then in town until his death, aged 37.

Suburb
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was formerly a burgh of barony and police burgh and by the time of the burgh's abolition in 1929 it was the most populous burgh in the county of , Scotland.

Suburb
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is a former village and a parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in on the west side of the . The eastern-side was merged with to the east in 1929, and today eastern is a suburb of Dumfries.

Dumfries railway station

Latitude
55.0727° or 55° 4′ 22″ north
Longitude
-3.60445° or 3° 36′ 16″ west
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
Operator
ScotRail
Network
National Rail
Abbreviation
“DMF”
Open location code
9C7R39FW+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26755092
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6952484
Wiki­data ID
Q597956
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Polish—“Dumfries railway station” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “station Dumfries”
  • Dutch: “Station Dumfries”
  • French: “Dumfries”
  • French: “gare de Dumfries”
  • Japanese: “ダンフリーズ駅”
  • Polish: “Dumfries”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dumfries railway station”. Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.