Gretna Green thousands of weddings. Today there are several wedding venues in and around Gretna Green, from former churches to purpose-built chapels. The services at all the venues are always performed over an iconic blacksmith's anvil. Gretna Green endures as one of the world's most popular wedding venues, and thousands of couples from around the world come to be married 'over the anvil' in Gretna Green. In common law, a "Gretna Green marriage" came to mean, in general, a marriage transacted in a jurisdiction that was not the residence of the parties being married, to avoid restrictions or procedures imposed by the
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