Craignair Quarries

Location type

Mine

Name 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

Chronology Dates

06/04/1877Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway
Fixed rates arranged for the carriage of granite from Craignair Quarries from Dalbeattie to Glasgow and Carlisle.