Common Junction
Location type
PlaceName and dates
Common Junction (1883-1896)Opened on the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).
Description
This was the junction for the Common Branch, between Commondyke (to the west) and Lugar (to the east). The branch was approached from the west. It ran north to the Common pits. The branch dated from the 1850s, or earlier.
A box opened in 1883, around the time the line was doubled. This box was on the north side of the junction.
The box and junction closed in 1896. Afterwards the mineral line from Lugar Iron Works approached the collieries.
The trackbed can be walked.
Tags
JunctionExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Lugar Commondyke Cumnock [2nd] Cronberry Cumnock [1st] Cairntable Halt Auchinleck Dumfries House Skares Catrine Ochiltree New Cumnock Mauchline Muirkirk [1st] Muirkirk [2nd] | Craigston Pit Dickston Pit Lugar Brickworks Dykes Pit No 2 Dickston Pit Lugar Mine Rose Junction Lugar Ironworks Junction Birnieknowe Pit Maid Pits Lugar Works Cronberry Nos 1,2,3 Sidings Braehead Pit No 6 Common Pit No 6 Tourist/other Laurienne Memorial |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
