Craignair Quarries
Location type
MineName and dates
Craignair Quarries (1826-)Description
This granite quarry is to the west of Dalbeattie on the west bank of the Urr Water. The hard wearing stone is suitable for granite setts and quayside building (even used for the Eddystone Lighthouse). The quarries had their own internal railway system, relaid as needed.
With the opening of the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway stone was transshipped at Dalbeattie station. For a time, an aerial ropeway connected the quarries to the station.
Opened 1826 by Liverpool Dock Trustees probably for the Clarence Dock (1830) and Brunswick Dock (1832 for timber) (both engineered by Jesse Hartley)
Closed 1832
Re-opened 1859 with the opening of the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway by DH & J Newall, an existing company, for dressed and polished granite.
Construction 1871-1877 Garvel Dry Dock
Construction 1878-1881 Eddystone Lighthouse
Tags
Quarry Aerial ropeway| Nearby stations Dalbeattie Buittle Southwick Castle Douglas Castle Douglas (St Andrew Street) Kirkgunzeon Bridge of Dee Crossmichael Killywhan Tarff Lochanhead Parton Kirkcudbright New Galloway Newtonairds | Dalbeattie Quay Dalbeattie Creamery Urr Viaduct Barsole^s Siding Maidenholm Sidings Kirkgunzeon Lane Viaduct Southwick Ammunition Factory Southwick Factory Siding Southwick Quarry Castle Douglas Shed Kippford Quarries Lane Bridge Tourist/other Orchardton Tower Threave Garden Rockcliffe Coastline |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 06/04/1877 | Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway Fixed rates arranged for the carriage of granite from Craignair Quarries from Dalbeattie to Glasgow and Carlisle. |
