Barrmill railway station

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Barrmill
Location
Location Barrmill
Area Ayrshire
Coordinates 55°43′48″N 4°36′01″W / 55.7299, -4.6003Coordinates: 55°43′48″N 4°36′01″W / 55.7299, -4.6003
Grid reference NS367515
Operations
Original company Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Pre-grouping Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways
Platforms 1
History
26 June 1873 Opened
5 November 1962 Closed to passengers
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom

Closed railway stations in Britain
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Barrmill railway station was a railway station serving the village of Barrmill, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was originally part of the Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway.

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[edit] History

The station opened on 26 June 1873,[1] and closed permanently to passengers on 5 November 1962.[1] Freight services continued on the line until 1964.[2] The station was the only intermediate station on the five mile branch from Lugton to Beith.[2]

Today the line to Barrmill (now singled) is still in existence until just before the site of the station, where it then heads south along the original route of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway until it reaches DMC Beith. The station site has been redeveloped into a housing estate.

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Butt, page 28
  2. ^ a b Stansfield, page 10

[edit] Sources

  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
  • Stansfield, G. (1999). Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways. Ochiltree: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 1-8403-3077-5. 


Preceding station Historical Railways Following station
Beith
Line and station closed
  Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways

Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway

  Lugton
Line and station closed