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    Portpatrick is a village and civil parish in the historical county of Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located on the west coast of...
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  • The Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railways was a network of railway lines serving sparsely populated areas of south-west Scotland. The title appeared...
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    Stranraer at the head of Loch Ryan and the small tourist village of Portpatrick on the west coast. Other villages are dotted up and down the peninsula...
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    bridge. Two possible routes were proposed: Portpatrick–Larne and Kintyre peninsula–Torr Head. The Portpatrick route would cross the dyke. Explosive ordnance...
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    harbour at Portpatrick and was now delaying; the Portpatrick Railway delayed too, but finally completed the line from Stranraer to Portpatrick on 28 August...
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  • loss of commitment to Portpatrick. In 1857 the Portpatrick Railway was authorised, its primary objective being to connect Portpatrick and Carlisle for the...
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    A network of military roads, sometimes called General Wade's Military Roads, was constructed in the Scottish Highlands during the middle part of the 18th...
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    Portpatrick railway station was a railway station serving the village of Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. Opened in 1862 the station served...
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    coast-to-coast long-distance footpath in southern Scotland. The route links Portpatrick in the west and Cockburnspath in the east via the hills of the Southern...
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    period by couples going to Portpatrick in Scotland to marry, as there was a daily packet boat. During this period, Portpatrick was known as the "Gretna...
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    reached by a military road built from Dumfries to allow easier access to Portpatrick for transportation of people to Ireland for the Plantation of Ulster...
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  • their two dogs on the site of an old military listening station near Portpatrick. The build is a half-buried waterproof box built of concrete, blockwork...
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  • Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway (G&PJR) was a railway company in Scotland. It opened in 1877 between Girvan and Challoch Junction, where it joined...
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    house or castle, located 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of the village of Portpatrick, Rhinns, Wigtownshire, on the south-west coast of Scotland. Dunskey Castle...
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    Stranraer Town railway station (category Former Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway stations)
    Wigtownshire, Scotland, served the town of Stranraer and was a station on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. Opened on 11 March 1861, when the Castle...
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    to 1965 on the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway. The station opened on 5 October 1877 by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway. To the south...
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  • Mull of Galloway, Port Logan harbour, Killantringan Lighthouse near Portpatrick and Corsewall Lighthouse near Stranraer. On review aggregator Rotten...
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    and Belfast is the route used by the existing ferry service, that via Portpatrick/Stranraer (about 150 km (93 mi) from Glasgow) and Larne (about 35 km...
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    Western Railway (G&SWR) at Dumfries, and the Portpatrick Railway, later to be the core of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway, was being constructed...
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  • scouting also took place in Scotland, including around the Isle of Skye, Portpatrick, Scourie, Perthshire, and Loch Lomond. Amazon and Creative Scotland held...
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    Company completed the first successful Irish link on May 23 between Portpatrick and Donaghadee using the collier William Hutt.: 34–36  The same ship...
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    England and Scotland to Ireland passed this way through the ports of Portpatrick and Donaghadee, but the poor roads made the passage difficult. The Glasgow...
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    marriages were Coldstream Bridge, Lamberton, Mordington and Paxton Toll, and Portpatrick for people coming from Ireland. In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen...
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  • not have a radio telephone) by radio operator David Broadfoot to the Portpatrick Radio Station: "Hove-to off mouth of Loch Ryan. Vessel not under command...
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    to 1965 on the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway. The station opened on 5 October 1877 by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway. To the west...
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    North Channel, close to that taken by an existing ferry service, between Portpatrick in Dumfries and Galloway, and Larne in County Antrim, Northern Ireland...
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    Irish Sea tunnel Midland Main Line Midland Main Line railway upgrade Portpatrick Railway Rail transport in Great Britain West Coast Main Line route modernisation...
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  • Centauro-class fiscalization boat Orion (paddle steamer), a ship which sank off Portpatrick, Scotland in 1850 MV Orion, a cruise ship RMS Orion, an ocean liner of...
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    provided by Stagecoach Western. Newton Stewart railway station was on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway and closed in 1965, as a result of the...
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  • in 1884. In 1885 became assistant minister of Trinity Free Church in Portpatrick, Wigtonshire, Scotland and succeeded the senior pastor there upon his...
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