Gretna Green the marriage ceremony. The blacksmiths in Gretna became known as "anvil priests", culminating with Richard Rennison, who performed 5,147 ceremonies. The local blacksmith and his anvil became lasting symbols of Gretna Green weddings. Two in particular, The Old Blacksmith's Shop, built around 1712, and Gretna Hall Blacksmith's Shop (1710) became, in popular folklore at least, the focal tourist points for the marriage trade. The Old Blacksmith's Shop opened to the public as a visitor attraction as early as 1887. Victorian chronicler Robert Smith Surtees described Gretna Green at length in his 1848 "New Monthly Magazine" serial, "The Richest Commoner in
Gretna Green railway station station was one of three serving Gretna, the others being: 18 departures are provided each way on weekdays (20 on Saturday). A basic hourly service to Dumfries runs for most of the day (two-hourly through to Glasgow), with one or two longer gaps during the morning and a similar number south to Carlisle. These include five through trains to Newcastle via . On Sundays there are five departures for Carlisle and four for Dumfries, two of which run through to Glasgow. Gretna Green railway station Gretna Green railway station serves the village of Gretna Green and the town of Gretna