The Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway line, opened 1888, started from here from the Beith Town branch of the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway of 1873 and ran south west to Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier. The junction was immediately east of Barrmill station.
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This junction did not exist on the 1890 Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier to Barrmill Junction line. The Caledonian Railway, having control over the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, was keen to own entirely a route to Ardrossan. From Barrmill Junction to Langside Junction the line was jointly owned with the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
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This was a four platform station. There were two main platforms on the Giffen Junction to Kilwinning East main line and also two on the Kilbirnie (South) branch. However, there were two tracks between the main platforms and only one between the branch platforms. The branch down side was the west face of the island platform whose east side served the up main line. The branch up side ...

At this junction the Kilbirnie (South) branch (1889) left the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway main line (1888). Giffen station was immediately north east of the junction.
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This was a two platform station. The main station building was on the southbound platform with a waiting shelter on the northbound.
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This goods yard was between Auchenmade and Kilwinning East. The sidings were on the east side of the line, approached from the north, from the northbound line across the southbound. There was one siding by the main lines and a pair to the east. There was a signal box on the west side, opposite the turn out.
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This seven arch double track masonry viaduct was built in 1886 by Robert McAlpine to cross the River Garnock.
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This was a three platform station with a junction to the south between the lines to Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier and Irvine Bank Street.
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This junction was immediately south of Kilwinning East station, separated from it by the Howgate Bridge. It was located in a deep cutting with a large concrete retaining wall on the west side, which remains although only the top part is visible today.
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At this junction a curve from the Ardeer Iron Works met the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. The curve met an existing line serving the works. Trains using this connection would leave the works and head for Kilwinning East.
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This was a two platform station to the west of New Street which was crossed by a bridge. The main station building was on the eastbound platform.
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This was a two platform station to the north of the present Saltcoats station. This station was built by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway (which was controlled by the Caledonian Railway) in direct competition with the existing Glasgow and South Western Railway station. This station was to the north of Saltcoats and its harbour.
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This was a four road shed. It was located east of Ardrossan North on the north side of the line. The shed opened with the line and closed in 1931, although used for storage until 1953. Displaced locomotives were assigned to Ardrossan Shed [GSW] [2nd] in 1931. Even after closure a track retained here was used for holding locomotives.
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This was the goods yard for Ardrossan North it was located on the east side of the line, north of the station. Approach was from the east.
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This refinery was opened in the 1928. Raw material came by sea and products were distributed by rail. By the 1970s the works specialised in bitumen production, having previously also produced aviation fuel. The works closed in 1986.
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This was a large station in the north of Ardrossan. The last of the site has been reused for housing (2017). This station was built in competition with the Glasgow and South Western Railway's Ardrossan Town station in the south of the town. It was built on reclaimed land of the North Bay. Similar substantial station buildings built in timber containing offices, waiting rooms etc could be ...

This signal box was located between Ardrossan Winton Pier and Ardrossan Town at Ardrossan Harbour Junction. It survived the closure of most of the signal boxes in Ayrshire, massive cut back in sidings it had controlled, and the electrification of the railway to Ardrossan Harbour.
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This two platform terminus was covered with a wooden trainshed, open to the air over the tracks. The station was located on a pier, which could be used at low tide, built on reclaimed land. There were quayside lines on both sides.
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At this junction a curve from the Ardeer Iron Works met the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. The curve met an existing line serving the works. Trains using this connection would leave the works and head for Kilwinning East.
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This iron works was established by the Glengarnock Iron Company on the shore of the Ardeer Peninsular just to the south of Stevenston. Good supplies of coal existed in the area. Five blast furnaces were built. Slag was deposited on the foreshore, leading to a still existing feature. The works was later owned by Merry and Cunningham. Also known as Stevenston Iron Works.
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At this junction the Kilbirnie (South) branch (1889) left the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway main line (1888). Giffen station was immediately north east of the junction.
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RNAD Beith, a munitions depot, was built during the Second World War in 1943. It is a storage and testing location.
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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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This was a single platform station.
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Although the Kilbirnie (South) branch was single track, this was a two platform station. To the north the line continued double to the terminus at Kilbirnie (South) and to the south it was single to Kilbirnie Junction. The main station building was on the southbound platform with a waiting room opposite. A signal box was at the south end of the northbound platform.
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This was the Caledonian Railway's 1889 terminus in the east of Kilbirnie. It was approached from Glengarnock [CR] by a double track line, beyond Glengarnock it was a single track branch to Giffen on the main line of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.
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This junction was immediately south of Kilwinning East station, separated from it by the Howgate Bridge. It was located in a deep cutting with a large concrete retaining wall on the west side, which remains although only the top part is visible today.
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This was a three platform station with a junction to the south between the lines to Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier and Irvine Bank Street.
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This iron works was located to the south of Kilwinning on the west bank of the River Garnock. It made use of the nearby collieries.
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A slag processing area which processed the slag hill at the former Eglinton Iron Works.
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This was a single platform station - the platform was on the east side of the line a siding, approached from the north, was on the west. The line was built to take two lines, but on the down track was laid.
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This was a single platform terminus. It was the terminus of the Caledonian Railway's Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway line south from Kilwinning East which potentially could be have been extended south to Ayr. The terminus was located on the east side of the town centre.
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This was a short lived junction between 1903 and 1907. The Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway reached Cathcart (for passengers) and Clarkston East Junction (for minerals) from Ardrossan in 1903.
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In 1903, the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway was extended from Giffen Junction to Clarkston and, a month later, Cathcart. At this junction the Clarkston and Cathcart routes separated. This junction was the start of the passenger route to Glasgow via Cathcart and a curve to Clarkston East Junction which carried goods to and from Lanarkshire via East Kilbride before the ...

This is one of the finest stations in the Greater Glasgow area. It is a two platform station. The main station building on the up platform still stands. Unfortunately the down platform building and signal box, opened with the station, have not survived.
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This is a two platform station with a car park. Unfortunately the buildings, which were similar to those at Whitecraigs, have not survived.
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This was to be a station with an island platform. To the immediate west the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway was met by the Paisley and Barrhead District Railway at Lyoncross Junction.
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This junction was immediately west of the never completed Lyoncross station. The signal box was at the west end of its never built island platform and opened with the junction in 1905.
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This goods yard was located between Neilston and Lyoncross Junction at a rural location.
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This is a two platform terminus station. To the south the two lines of the railway merge at a reversing spur. Although the Caledonian Railway style station buildings were demolished in the late 1980s the goods shed survives. The larger building with ticket office was on the Glasgow bound platform with a smaller building on the southbound platform.
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This was a two platform station in typical Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway style of the Caledonian Railway.
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This was a double track junction north of Lugton High station. It was the junction between the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway and its connection to Lugton on the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway.
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This was a two platform station. It was to the south of Lugton station (which was on the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway).
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A double track eleven arch viaduct built by Robert McAlpine in concrete. After falling out of use in 1950, the viaduct survived until February 2008 when it was demolished.
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This goods yard was on the south side of the line, approached from the west. It consisted of three sidings and a loading bank in a cutting. Gree Farm is to the east.
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This was a double track seven span double track mass concrete viaduct built by Robert McAlpine.
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This junction did not exist on the 1890 Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier to Barrmill Junction line. The Caledonian Railway, having control over the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, was keen to own entirely a route to Ardrossan. From Barrmill Junction to Langside Junction the line was jointly owned with the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
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This was a double track junction north of Lugton High station. It was the junction between the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway and its connection to Lugton on the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway.
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Lugton L&A Junction opened in 1903 between the 1871 Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway, (jointly owned by the Caledonian Railway and Glasgow and South Western Railway), and the extension of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway opened in 1903 between Giffen Junction and Cathcart West Junction. The L&A junction opened as part of a short link joining the new line at [[Lugton ...

This is a four way junction. Two lines of the Cathcart Circle from Glasgow Central, one via Crosshill and via Maxwell Park, meet a line from Neilston and a line from Newton. The junction allows a train via Crosshill to run to Neilston and a train via Maxwell Park to run to Newton. Unfortunately the latter passes close to Cathcart but does not serve it.
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Muirend is one of the finest stations in the Glasgow area. It is an island platform with its original building and broad cantilevered canopies, the only intact survivor of its type.
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This is a two platform station built on the site of Clarkston West Junction. ...

In 1903, the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway was extended from Giffen Junction to Clarkston and, a month later, Cathcart. At this junction the Clarkston and Cathcart routes separated. This junction was the start of the passenger route to Glasgow via Cathcart and a curve to Clarkston East Junction which carried goods to and from Lanarkshire via East Kilbride before the ...

Muirend is one of the finest stations in the Glasgow area. It is an island platform with its original building and broad cantilevered canopies, the only intact survivor of its type.
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To the south of Muirend station was the north end of the intended curve from here to Clarkston East Junction on the East Kilbride line. The double track was converted into two long carriage sidings in 1907, approached from Muirend. This was a very long chord, which ran parallel to the Neilston route for around 0.8 of a mile before turning away to the south east.
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This was a short lived junction between 1903 and 1907. The Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway reached Cathcart (for passengers) and Clarkston East Junction (for minerals) from Ardrossan in 1903.
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Newton West Junction is to the west of Newton station. It is where lines divide into the bypass lines, to the north, and platform lines, to the south. The platform lines are joined by the line from Kirkhill, to the south west, as they approach the station. This location is called Newton Kirkhill Junction although it used to come under Newton West Junction.
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To the immediate west of Newton the former Clydesdale Junction Railway and Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway part and run a short distance west before diverging.
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This junction was east of Kirkhill station and Kirkhill Tunnel. Here the line from Ardrossan North (and today from Neilston) divided into routes to Newton and Carmyle. The junction was in a cutting directly east of the tunnel.
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This station is west of Kirkhill Tunnel. It is a two platform station. It had platform waiting rooms (which still stood after electrification) and a street level ticket office, which survived the platform buildings but was demolished in the 1990s (?). The platforms are much lower than the surrounding land.
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This is an island platform station. The line is raised and the entry is by subway, with a rather fine archway entrance to the subway at street level. This was covered over with an oversize Burnside sign for many years, but has now been uncovered again. The original station building has not survived. At the east end of the station two bridges cross Burnside Road, the southern of which carried two ...

This is an island platform station. There is no car park. The station is on a raised embankment, accessed by a subway. The station building is relatively modern and has awnings.
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This is an island platform station which still has an original station building.
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This is a double track junction where lines of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway meet between Cathcart and Newton. The junction was formed in 1904.
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This double track viaduct carries the former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway over the White Cart Water with an elegant single arch. Although a concrete bridge it is faced with sandstone.
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This is a four way junction. Two lines of the Cathcart Circle from Glasgow Central, one via Crosshill and via Maxwell Park, meet a line from Neilston and a line from Newton. The junction allows a train via Crosshill to run to Neilston and a train via Maxwell Park to run to Newton. Unfortunately the latter passes close to Cathcart but does not serve it.
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This is a double track junction where lines of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway meet between Cathcart and Newton. The junction was formed in 1904.
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This junction is just south of Mount Florida station. Here the Cathcart District Railway of 1886 is met, on either side, by lines from the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway of 1904. Of the 1904 lines the south east bound line simply runs south and east to Cathcart East Junction, the northbound line burrows under the Cathcart District to reach Cathcart East. It passes under at a ...

This junction was to the south of the Westburn Viaduct. Here the Glasgow Central Railway of 1896 (the portion between Carmyle Junction and Steel Company of Scotland Works Junction, now Newton West Junction) was met by the 1904 Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway branch from Kirkhill Junction.
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This junction was east of Kirkhill station and Kirkhill Tunnel. Here the line from Ardrossan North (and today from Neilston) divided into routes to Newton and Carmyle. The junction was in a cutting directly east of the tunnel.
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