Glengonnar Halt Station in Leadhills, Scotland

Glengonnar Halt Station in Leadhills, Scotland

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 p…