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The Port Road: Dumfries to Stranraer
A railway across Galloway, linking rural communities with Dumfries and the Irish Sea crossing at Stranraer.
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The complete set of Port Road subjects remains available throughout the route.
Dumfries and Galloway · Port Road publicity
The journey advertised from Galloway
This collection is confined to the Port Road, places in Dumfries and Galloway, and the Stranraer–Larne connection where it formed a documented part of the railway journey.
Open on this pagec. 1934 · Port Road-specific
Stranraer–Larne: travel to Ireland by the short sea route
Norman Wilkinson’s LMS poster promoted the Princess Maud and Princess Margaret, promised accelerated services and offered train-and-steamer times from any LMS station. It is direct evidence that the railway and crossing were marketed as one national journey.
Displayed under the museum’s CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence for this non-commercial heritage presentation, with the original collection record retained beside it.View the complete poster at the museum →
Open on this page1961–66 · Port Road-specific
Three seasons of Stranraer–Larne publicity
The National Railway Museum catalogue records publicity for the new Caledonian Princess in 1961, an improved Great Britain–Ireland service in summer 1962, and passenger-and-car-ferry sailings in 1965–66. Together they show the campaign changing from a new ship to improved connections and then to the growing car-ferry market.
The catalogue establishes the titles, dates and subjects. The displayed 1978 photograph is a later view of Stranraer Harbour and its rail-and-ferry interchange; it is not the missing leaflet artwork.Inspect the museum catalogue →
Open on this page1985 · Stranraer–Larne advertising
The ferry advertised on the connecting railway
A Northern Ireland Railways train carried bold Sealink colours to promote the Larne–Stranraer ferry. The train itself became a moving advertisement, demonstrating that rail and sea were still sold together long after passenger trains over the direct Dumfries route had ended.
This photograph documents later advertising on the Irish connecting railway; it does not depict the closed Dumfries–Stranraer section.Open source and rights record →