Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Introduction
This line is open. The opening of this line reduced the distance to Ayr Harbour from the Muirkirk line and kept goods trains from Kilmarnock station, a portion of the Glasgow and South Western Railway main line and the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway.
Dates
Locations along the line
These locations are along the line.
This 1870 junction was south of Newton-on-Ayr station (1886). Four lines meet here, the main Glasgow to Ayr railway and branches to Ayr Harbour and Mauchline on the main line to Carlisle.
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See also
Ayr and Dalmellington Railway
Falkland Yard and Ayr Harbour (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Bill Hamilton 03/10/2018
This was the 1870 junction between the main line from Glasgow and the line from Mauchline, giving both lines access to Ayr. It was a double track curve. The signal box, opened with the junction, was on the east side of the junction, just north of Hawkhill Avenue. The box was replaced with a larger box on a similar site.
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See also
Ayr and Dalmellington Railway
Bill Hamilton //1960
Bill Hamilton //
Bill Hamilton //1961
Bill Hamilton //
This was the eastern junction of a triangle of junctions. The northern junction is Newton Junction [Ayr] and southern Hawkhill Junction. It was a double track junction.
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Bill Roberton //1992
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
Ken Browne 06/09/2010
This was a two platform station with the main station building on the Ayr bound platform. The goods yard was on the south side, approached from the west. The first signal box was west of the station, between the main line and the goods yard sidings. This was replacec in 1908 with a new box on the north side of the line.
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Ewan Crawford //1997
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
This junction was west of Annbank station. It opened in 1892 with a new line which ran north west to Monkton Junction near Prestwick.
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See also
Monkton and Annbank Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
This is the junction between the lines from Ayr to Mauchline and the branch to Killoch Washery. The junction is immediately west of the former Annbank station.
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G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/05/1959
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
Bill Roberton //1989
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
This former station was actually in the village of Mossblown. Annbank itself is about a mile to the south by road. A junction remains here today for the Killoch Washery off the Ayr to Mauchline line.
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See also
Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Douglas Blades 04/02/2022
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Douglas Blades 22/05/2021
This was a two platform station with the main station building on the eastbound platform.
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Douglas Blades 11/09/2021
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G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/05/1959
Bill Hamilton //1961
This unusually elegant double track bridge crosses over the B743 east of Tarbolton. Today it carries one track.
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This is a nine arch double track viaduct over the Water of Fail. The overall length is 405 ft and height 86 ft.
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G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/03/1959
This is a double track six arch viaduct west of Mauchline. It is 204 ft long and 52 ft high. It crosses the Yonderton Burn and a farm road.
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This was a three platform station about half a mile to the south of Mauchline itself. The main station building was on the main line southbound platform. There was a goods yard at the east end, north of the line, approached by reversal.
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See also
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Bill Roberton //1989
Bill Hamilton 04/06/1961
Bill Hamilton 04/06/1961
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1961
