Belston Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Belston Junction (1872-1975)Opened on the Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
Description
This was the junction between the 1872 line from Annbank to Cronberry and its branch to Holehouse Junction. Access to the branch was from the east. Both lines were single track, the branch having a loop just to the west of the junction. The branch provided a route to the Dalmellington Iron Works from the Muirkirk direction.
The first signal box (1884) was on the south side of the junction, replaced with a box on north side, a little to the west.
The line west of Littlemill Colliery Pits Nos 2,3,5 (excluded), on the Holehouse route, closed in 1950. East from Belston (excluded) closed in 1966 and the box closed.
The junction remained as a reversing spur for Littlemill until 1975.
The former junction's formation remains, partly landscaped into farmland.
Tags
Junction
Chronology Dates
| 11/06/1872 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Annbank (Annbank Junction) to Cronberry and Belston Junction to Holehouse Junction opened for goods and minerals. Cumnock Junction to Logan Junction probably also opened. |
| 03/04/1950 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Holehouse Junction to Rankinston to Belston Junction closed to passengers. Rankinston and Cairntable Halt closed. |
| 03/04/1966 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Dykes Junction to Belston Junction (excluded) closed to freight. |
| 01/01/1975 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Littlemill Colliery to Belston Junction and Belston Junction to Drongan (excluded) closed to freight. |
