This private railway connected Glengarnock Iron Works to ironstone pits to the south near Brackenhills and Giffen.
These locations are along the line.
This junction was on the Kilbirnie branch of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. A large part of this branch predated the L&A and had begun life as a mineral line, the Barkip Railway, which ran south from the Glengarnock Iron Works.
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