Maybole and Girvan Railway

Introduction

This railway is still open. It is served by passenger trains between Ayr to Girvan and other services from Glasgow to Stranraer and (formerly) Newcastle to Stranraer operated by ScotRail. At the time of writing (2002) there are no regular freight services.




Dates

  /  /1856Maybole and Girvan Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
24/05/1860Maybole and Girvan Railway
Opened from Maybole Junction (Ayr and Maybole Railway) to Girvan [1st]. Maybole [1st] is replaced by Maybole and becomes a goods station.
  /  /1865Maybole and Girvan RailwayGlasgow and South Western Railway
Maybole and Girvan Railway absorbed by Glasgow and South Western Railway.
  /  /1865Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway
Act receives Royal Assent for a line running from Girvan Junction (Maybole and Girvan Railway) to Challoch Junction (Portpatrick Railway).
05/10/1877Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway
Line opened from Girvan Junction (Maybole and Girvan Railway) to Challoch Junction (Portpatrick Railway). Railway worked by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. (Alternative date 01/10/1877.)
  /  /1892Maybole and Girvan Railway
Girvan (Old) closed and becomes a goods depot only.
  /  /1959Maybole and Girvan Railway
DMUs introduced on Glasgow to Stranraer workings.
14/06/1965Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway
Maybole and Girvan Railway
Annbank (Annbank Junction) to Mauchline re-opened to passengers (with the closure of the Port Road the trains are diverted). The number of trains between Challoch Junction, Girvan and Ayr increases after closure of the Portpatrick Railway.
  /  /1982Maybole and Girvan Railway
Girvan (Old) closed to goods due to poor condition of bridge.
03/10/1988Maybole and Girvan Railway
Class 156 Sprinters introduced on line.
  /  /1989Maybole and Girvan Railway
Girvan (Old) line lifted.
  /  /1990Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway Portpatrick Railway Maybole and Girvan Railway
Stranraer to Euston sleeper withdrawn.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Also known as Maybole and Girvan Railway Junction and Maybole Goods Junction. This was the junction between the original route of the Ayr and Maybole Railway and its extension by the Maybole and Girvan Railway south to Girvan. The junction was some way north east of Maybole as an end-on junction between the lines was not possible. The original terminus was left on a short ...

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Ayr and Maybole Railway
A Glasgow St Enoch - Stranraer express photographed passing Nether Culzean north of Maybole on Saturday 17 October 1959. At the head of the train is ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/10/1959
A Stranraer - Glasgow express about to run through Maybole Junction on 17 October 1959, hauled by an unidentified Black 5. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/10/1959
Class 2P 4-4-0 40575 passing Maybole Junction on 17 October 1959 with a Girvan - Ayr train. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/10/1959
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This is a single platform station, formerly a two platform station. The southbound platform remains in use, the northbound is overgrown, disused since 1973. The station building, on the in use platform, is of red sandstone and two storeys. It is partly in railway use, partly housing and also houses a convenience store. The building on the former northbound platform has been demolished.
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A summer Saturday Glasgow - Stranraer express photographed near Maybole on 15 August 1959 behind Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45732 Sanspareil. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1959
A Kilmarnock to Stranraer service departs Maybole on 18 September. ...
David Panton 18/09/2019
The street aspect of the station building at Maybole looks a good deal more
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David Panton 10/10/2017
An Ayr to Girvan service calls at Maybole, the only intermediate station,
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David Panton 10/10/2017
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This signal box closed in 1890. It was just over a mile south of Maybole.
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Horwich Mogul 42805 leaving the 'Marl Hole' south of Maybole on Saturday 6 August 1960 with a train of empty stock destined for Girvan. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/08/1960
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This short lived station was around a mile and a half west of Crosshill itself.
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Kilkerran was a double platform station with the main two storey station building on the southbound platform.
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Kilkerran signalbox looking north in 1988 with the loop beyond, to the north of the former station. This intermediary passing loop was the only ...
Bill Roberton //1988
Kilkerran station building and goods shed in 1988. The station closed on 6 September 1965. See image 30758 from 2010.
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Bill Roberton //1988
Kilkerran signal box - May 1999 ...
David Panton /05/1999
View from a southbound DMU arriving at Kilkerran station in August 1964. The station is very well kept, with a splendid garden display, but it closed ...
Brian Haslehust 28/08/1964
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This signal box was to the north east of Dailly station. It controlled access to Romilly Colliery and the Dalquharran Tile Works sidings. The box was on the north side of the line at the point of divergence of the sidings which were also on the north side of the line and served from the east.
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This was a two platform station. The main station building was on the southbound platform. The building, Glasgow and South Western Railway in style, bore a strong resemblance to the now gone building on the northbound platform at Maybole.. There was a goods yard to the east, on the south side of the line, served from the west. The platforms crossed the main road to the south of the ...

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BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 73060 photographed just south of Dailly on Saturday 15 August 1959 with a Glasgow to Girvan train.
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G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1959
A Swindon DMU on a Girvan - Glasgow service photographed near Dailly on 6 August 1960. [Ref query 1072] ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/08/1960
Corkerhill Black 5 45007 photographed near Bargany, Ayrshire, on the approach to Dailly on 15 August 1959 with a train from Girvan for Glasgow St ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1959
Black 5 45490 about to run through Dailly, between Girvan and Maybole, on 15 August 1959 with a Stranraer Harbour - Glasgow St Enoch express. Dailly ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1959
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This 1903 signal box controlled access to Bargany Colliery which was on the south side of the line and approached from the north east. The box was on the north side of the line.
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BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73121 near Bargany, famous for its coal mines, to the south west of Dailly, with a St Enoch - Girvan train on 15 August ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1959
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This was a two platform station crossed by a road bridge. The main station building was on the southbound platform. The building had an unusual largely glazed extension at the south end of the building, perhaps the waiting room for Killochan Castle. The building was replaced around 1900.
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This was a two platform station built during World War Two to serve the temporary ICI munitions factory built at Grangeston Distillery.
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View north at Grangeston Halt. This was a two platform halt just north of Girvan Junctions which served the large ICI Grangeston munitions factory ...
Ewan Crawford //2002
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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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Maidens and Dunure Light Railway (Glasgow and South Western Railway)


A 101 runs north past Girvan Junction. The train is approaching from Girvan (New) station on the line to Stranraer. The original terminus was to the ...
Ewan Crawford //
DMU passing Girvan goods branch. ...
Ian Dinmore //
Looking south at Girvan Junction. The line in the distance to the right ran to the original Girvan terminus. ...
Ewan Crawford 19/03/1988
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This was a single platform station which officially closed as a goods only yard in 1989 partly due to the condition of the single track bridge over the Water of Girvan.
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Girvan (Old) station seen in 1993 looking to Ayr a few years after track lifting (in 1989). The station had opened as a terminus in 1860 and was to ...
Ewan Crawford //1993
The remains of a loading bank at Girvan (Old) station. ...
William Tollan 09/02/2006
Remains of the station building at Girvan (Old) in February 2015 see image 52550. ...
Colin Miller 02/02/2015
Site of the bridge which carried the line into the original Girvan station. ...
William Tollan 09/02/2006
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