This 2ft 3in gauge line is closed. It initially connected mines east of Machrihanish to Campbeltown but was later extended to Machrihanish proper and opened to passengers. There was no connection to the rest of the British railway system.
When open this was the only passenger carrying narrow gauge line in Scotland. Passengers were often on a day trip from the central belt arriving in Campbeltown by steamer.
The railway did not have conventional stations or platforms, but locations where the train stopped. There was one signalled passing loop at Lintmill Crossing Loop.
23/05/1887 | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Opened as a coal line which would later become the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Railway. |
/ /1905 | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Campbeltown and Machrihanish Railway authorised |
16/08/1906 | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Upgraded and opened for passenger traffic |
/ /1926 | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Mining more or less ceases. |
/ /1929 | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Pits closed. |
/11/1931 | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Campbeltown to Machrihanish closed to all traffic |
/01/1932 | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Line re-opened. |
/05/1932 | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Line re-closed. |
/ /1933 | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Campbeltown and Machrihanish Railway formally closed |
/ /1945 | Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Pit formerly served by railway re-opens. Served by road instead. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Single track passenger and goods line from Campbeltown to Machrihanish.
The original colliery, owned by J and TL Galloway, closed around 1929 but a new colliery was sunk by the Glasgow Iron and Steel Company alongside in 1946, opened by 1950. Pithead baths opened in 1953. The new colliery used road transport as the railway closed in 1931.
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