This light railway line is closed. The line involved a number of large viaducts and featured an electric brae at Croy Brae (a location which gives the impression of going uphill while going downhill and vice versa in the reverse direction). The famous Turnberry Hotel and golf course was built in association with this line.
These locations are along the line.
This was a junction south of Ayr. It was the junction between the 1906 Maidens and Dunure Light Railway (Glasgow and South Western Railway) (Carrick Coast line) and the 1856 Ayr and Dalmellington Railway.
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This was an island platform station in Alloway just to the east of Alloway Tunnel, Alloway Kirk and across the River Doon from the Burns Memorial.
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This tunnel is directly west of the former Alloway station. It is a single bore tunnel passing under a roadway and the kirkyard of Alloway Kirk. To the west the former line passes over the Alloway Viaduct.
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This disused single track four arch viaduct over the River Doon is west of Alloway Tunnel (and the former Alloway station).
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This pair of sidings was to the east of Heads of Ayr [2nd]. The sidings were served from the east.
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This station was opened in 1947 to serve Butlin's Ayr holiday camp. It was to the east of the original Heads of Ayr [1st] station which had closed in 1930.
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This station opened as a single platform station. The station was named for the Heads of Ayr, a prominent headland to the north. The platform was on the south side of the single track railway. The station building, typical of the line, had a platform side canopy.
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Dunure was an island platform station located in a cutting about 3/4 of a mile north east of the village itself.
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More detailsThis station was east of Culzean Castle, about a mile by road. Unusually for this line it was a single platform station. The platform was on the east side of the line. A small building, typical of the line, had a canopy on the platform side. (An example of this style of building survives at Moniaive.) A footpath, crossing the Glenside burn, approached the castle's Glenside Lodge.
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More detailsThis station was uphill and about a third of a mile to the east of the village of Maidens, at Jameston.
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This was a single platform station. It was the largest station on the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway (Glasgow and South Western Railway) and its fortunes were entirely bound up with the Turnberry Hotel which was developed, along with its golf courses, by the railway company at a greenfield site.
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These sidings were north of Dipple itself. The sidings were on the west side of the line and approached from the north. There was a short loop within the goods yard. The yard had an office and a water tank.
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Girvan Grangeston is a proposed intermodal rail depot to be built north of Girvan station and loop on the closed former Maidens and Dunure Light Railway.
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This siding was located on the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway. Access was from the north. The siding served ICI Grangestone which had both a standard gauge and narrow gauge network. See that entry for more details.
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This signal box controlled the junction for the Maidens and Dunure Railway (1906) where it met the Maybole and Girvan Railway (1860).
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At this junction the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway (1877) met the Maybole and Girvan Railway (1860).
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