Barkip Railway

Introduction

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




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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See also
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway