Barkip Railway

Introduction

This private railway connected Glengarnock Iron Works to ironstone pits to the south near Brackenhills and Giffen.


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Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.





This was a single platform station.
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Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
View south towards Giffen at Brackenhills. The platform was on the right. The line here started life as a mineral line serving the Glengarnock Iron ...
Ewan Crawford //1997
Looking towards Kilbirnie across the abutments of the bridge over the
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Douglas Blades 12/01/2018
The Giffen - Kilbirnie branch of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway is completely obliterated beyond the abutments of this difficult to access ...
Douglas Blades 08/01/2018
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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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Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway