B736 (Wigtownshire)

This article is about the original B736 along the coast in Wigtownshire.
For the current B736 south of Castle Douglas, see B736.

The original B736 was a fairly short B-road in south Wigtownshire.

The B7084 (former B736) at West Freugh

Although the route was short, and indeed short lived, it has a rather complicated history of re-routing and renumbering.

The route originally started on the A716 just north of Sandhead and followed the flat coastal plain northeastwards, with the Luce Sands and the sea off to the right. Presently the road reached the A715 (present B7077) by Genoch Mains and multiplexed to the east along this road for about a mile. Having regained its number the B736 headed north over a level crossing to end on the original line of the A75 in the centre of Dunragit.

In the mid-1920s, possibly as early as 1924, the B736 and A715 partially swapped routes, with the A715 being rerouted along the southern section of B736, and the B736 diverted westwards to meet the A716 near Lochans. The eastern section of the A715 remained the same, but it seems likely that the northern part of the B736 was upgraded to become the short A748 at the same time. However, by 1927 the B736 had been removed completely in the area, and renumbered as the A757. It is not clear why it needed a different number to the A748 portion, when both had originally been the B736. The A757 was also extended west of the A716 to meet the A77, although there is no evidence that the B736 ever did this. All of this section was renumbered as the B7077 between 1988 and 1993.

Further renumberings have occurred in this area and so the ex-A715 is now the B7084 throughout whereas the ex-A748 is now unclassified and has been rerouted slightly to connect with the A75 Dunragit bypass. These changes were also made between 1988 and 1993.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Sandhead - Whitehil - Dunragit