Capenoch Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Capenoch Signal BoxOpened on the Maybole and Girvan Railway.
Description
This signal box closed in 1890. It was just over a mile south of Maybole.
It was just south of the 'Marl Hole', a dip in the railway south of Maybole station where the line crossed the valley of the Abbeymill Burn. To the north the line dropped into the 'hole' with a 1 in 63 for over a mile and to the south was a 1 in 105 for around a mile.
To the south was the short lived Crosshill [Ayrshire] station (1860-62).
Tags
Signal boxAliases
Marl Hole
| Nearby stations Crosshill [Ayrshire] Maybole Maybole [1st] Kilkerran Cassillis Glenside Knoweside Dailly Maidens Dalrymple Dunure Turnberry Heads of Ayr [2nd] Maybole Junction [Station] Heads of Ayr [1st) | Kilkerran Acid Works Maybole Junction [Maybole] Smithston Viaduct Maxwell No 4 Colliery Dowhail Colliery Romilly Colliery Maxwell No 2 Colliery Dalquharran Tile Works Tourist/other Sir Charles Fergusson^s Monument Kilhenzie Castle Maybole Collegiate Church Crossraguel Abbey Myremill Farm Level Crossing Kilkerran House Dalquharran Signal Box Balchriston Level Crossing Halt |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
