Dalquharran Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Dalquharran Signal Box (1895-1958)Opened on the Maybole and Girvan Railway.
Description
This signal box was to the north east of Dailly station. It controlled access to Romilly Colliery and the Dalquharran Tile Works sidings. The box was on the north side of the line at the point of divergence of the sidings which were also on the north side of the line and served from the east.
The Romilly Colliery opened in 1864, not long after the line opened in 1860, and although it is unlikely the box itself opened at this time there was no doubt a siding. The box appears on the OS maps around 1890.
The line was doubled to Dailly in 1894 when the route between Ayr and Girvan was doubled. The box opened in 1895.
The Romilly Colliery closed in 1904 but the box survived until 1958.
The line was singled in 1973. It remains open.
Tags
Signal box sidingExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Dailly Kilkerran Killochan Crosshill [Ayrshire] Maidens Turnberry Grangeston Halt Maybole Glenside Maybole [1st] Girvan Girvan (Old) Knoweside Cassillis Pinmore | Romilly Colliery Maxwell No 2 Colliery Dalquharran Tile Works Maxwell No 4 Colliery Dowhail Colliery Dalquharran 1,2 Mine Kilgrammie Colliery Bargany Colliery Craighead Lime Works Kilkerran Acid Works Tourist/other Dalquharran Castle Bargany Signal Box Kilkerran House Killochan Castle Sir Charles Fergusson^s Monument Crossraguel Abbey |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
