This line is open. The line is used by ScotRail to provide a service between Ayr and Stranraer. Services start from Glasgow (running down via Kilwinning) or Carlisle (running via Dumfries, Kilmarnock and Ayr). Much freight was carried until the early 1990s. The direct trains to Newcastle have been withdrawn.
These locations are along the line.
At this junction the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway (1877) met the Maybole and Girvan Railway (1860).
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This is a double track viaduct north of Girvan station and south of the former Girvan Junction. The double track Girvan Loop, which extends north from the south end of the station to the former junction, passes over the viaduct.
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This is a two platform station with a Streamline Moderne (Art Deco) styled building on the up platform. Platforms are linked by a subway.
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More detailsThis summit, of 394 ft, is at the northern portal of the Pinmore Tunnel. It is the end of a long climb south from Girvan station up the Glendoune Bank (and Glendoune Cutting).
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This is a single track tunnel of 543 yards (469 metres). Pinmore Summit is at the tunnel's northern portal.
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This was a single platform station with a passing loop. The goods yard was on the west side, approached from the north, and passenger platform on the east side with a two storey station building. The signal box was at the north end, east side of the line, and south of the road bridge.
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This is an eleven arch gently curved single track masonry viaduct south of Pinmore, it is also known as Pinmore Viaduct or Kinclaer Viaduct. The viaduct is reinforced with old rails.
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More detailsThis was a two platform station with a passing loop on the single track line. The two storey station building was on the southbound platform. To the south, on the west side of the line, was the signal box. The goods yard was on the east side, south of the station, accessed from the south end of the southbound line. There was a goods shed at the south end of the yard, at Drumspillan close to the ...
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More detailsThis is a two platform station with a loop which breaks the single track section between Girvan and Pinwherry. The station building is on the southbound platform and there is a wooden waiting room on the northbound platform. Crossing between the platforms is by a walkway crossing at the south end of the station.
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More detailsThis halt was to the north of Chirmorie Summit, with steps built with old sleepers. Trains halted here for railwaymen and their families at the Chirmorie surfacemen's cottages, just to the east. The cottages are now derelict.
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This summit, between Barrhill (to the north) and Glenwhilly (to the south) is at 690 ft. It is the summit of the line between Girvan and Stranraer. The line crosses high exposed moorland here with drifting snow a problem in winter.
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Or Miltonish. A level crossing between Chirmorie Summit and Glenwhilly. There were surfacemen's cottages here and a private halt for families living at the cottages.
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More detailsGlenwhilly was a station at a remote location in farmed moorland. Glenwhilly Farm, for which it is named, is to the north.
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Or Bloody Wheel Viaduct.
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This was a two platform station. The main building was on the southbound platform. Platforms were slightly staggered, the northbound platform being slightly to the north.
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More detailsThis junction was formed in 1877 between the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway and the 1861 Portpatrick Railway.
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