Cairntable Halt railway station
| Cairntable Halt | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Kerse Loch |
| Area | Ayrshire |
| Coordinates | 55°23′43″N 4°28′34″W / 55.3952°N 4.4761°WCoordinates: 55°23′43″N 4°28′34″W / 55.3952°N 4.4761°W |
| Grid reference | NS4327314042 |
| Operations | |
| Pre-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Platforms | 1 |
| History | |
| 1927 | Opened |
| 3 April 1950 | Closed |
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Cairntable Halt railway station was a railway station serving a rural district and the miners' row of forty-eight houses[1][2] at the Cairntable Terraces, East Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was by opened as late as circa 1928 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway on the Holehouse Junction to Rankinston line.
History
This basic halt opened in 1927[3] or on 24 September 1928[4] and closed on 3 April 1950.[3][4] The nearby miners’ row was owned by the Cairntable Coal Co. and provided homes for workers at their nearby colliery.[5][6]
The site today
In 2012 the site has no remnants of the halt or trackbed and the Cairntable miners rows of Forty-eight apartment houses built in 1914 no longer exist, the last inhabitant having left in 1963.[7]
Micro-history
The trains would deliver bread for the village shop when the snows were too bad for the delivery van.[8]
In 1947 a steam engine got stuck in one of the railway cuttings near the village and the men from the village and Littlemill Pit helped dig the train out of the snowdrift.[9]
References
Notes
- ↑ Reid, Page 101
- ↑ Reid, Page 103
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Butt, Page 51
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lindsay, Part 2.1, Page 1
- ↑ Cairntable Village Retrieved : 2012-11-12
- ↑ Caintable Terraces. Retrieved : 2012-11-12
- ↑ Cairntable Village Retrieved : 2012-11-12
- ↑ Reid, Page 193
- ↑ Reid, Page 104
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 ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- Lindsay, David M. E. (2002). G&SWR Register of Stations, Routes and Lines. G&SWR Society.
- Reid, Donald L. (2012). The Lost Mining Villages of Doon Valley. Beith: D. L. Reid. ISBN 978-0-9566343-3-7.
| Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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| Holehouse Junction Line and station closed |
London, Midland and Scottish Railway Holehouse Branch |
Rankinston Line and station closed | ||