Busbiehead Signal Box
Location type
Names and dates
Busbiehead Signal Box (1894-1915)Busbiehead Signal Box (1915-1948)
Opened on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway.
Description
This box was between Cunninghamhead, to the north west, and Crosshouse, to the south east. It controlled access to Busbiehead Colliery Pit No 3. This colliery was originally on the north side of the line with its siding making a trailing connection to the Kilmarnock bound line. The box on the north side of the line.
The colliery was resunk to the south, approached by a siding to the south. The box was replaced in 1915.
The box closed in 1948.
The trackbed is now a footpath.
Tags
Signal box siding footpathExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Crosshouse Cunninghamhead Kilmaurs Springside Gatehead Dreghorn Kilmarnock [1st] Kilmarnock Kilmarnock (St Marnocks) Drybridge Montgreenan Riccarton and Craigie Stewarton Irvine Bank Street Bogside Moor Halt | Busbiehead Colliery Pits Nos 2b,3 Busbiehead Colliery Pit No 3 Southhook Fireclay Works Southhook Colliery Colliery [Hayside?] Pit Plann Fireclay Works Busbie Colliery Pit No 3 Plann Colliery Busbie Colliery Junction Busbie Colliery Pit No 6 Crosshouse Junction Tourist/other Hayside Signal Box South Hook Signal Box Plann Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
