Cronberry No 4 Pit Signal Box
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Cronberry No 4 Pit Signal Box (1881-1957)Opened on the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).
Description
This signal box was a little west of Cronberry Junction, just west of the Mosshouse Viaduct. It controlled access to a short curving branch which ran north to Cronberry Tileworks and Cronberry Pit No 4. The pit was relatively short lived but the tile works outlived the pit and continued to be served by a siding.
The signal box was on the north side of the original junction.
The Lugar Ironworks Railway branch to Cronberry Pit No 1 was extended north east to Cronberry Moor Mine (1920s?).
A new alignment from the main line opened from a gentler curve running north east to meet the existing Cronberry Moor Mine line, crossing over the older alignment close to the junction. The signal box was now in the 'V' of the junction.
The No 4 Pit box closed in 1957. The main line was singled.
The main line survived until 1976.
The formation of the two different era branches can still be seen. A brick built signal box remains, ruined, at the junction.
The trackbed can be walked.
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Cronberry No. 4 Pit Signalbox Cronberry No 4 Pit Signalbox
| Nearby stations Cronberry Lugar Cairntable Halt Commondyke Cumnock [2nd] Cumnock [1st] Auchinleck Dumfries House Catrine Skares New Cumnock Ochiltree Muirkirk [1st] Muirkirk [2nd] Mauchline | Braehead Mine Mosshouse Viaduct Cronberry Tileworks Braehead Pits Nos 4 and 5 Cronberry Pit No 4 Cronberry No 1,2,3 Pits Signal Box Mosshouse Pit Freestone Quarry Braehead Pit No 6 Cronberry Nos 1,2,3 Sidings Cronberry Junction Common Pit No 11 Maid Pit Lugar Ironworks Junction Mosshouse Pit |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
