Dykes Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Dykes Junction (-1964)Opened on the Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
Description
This was the junction for Dykes Pit No 1, Hindsward Colliery and Whitehill 1,2 Colliery. Access to a headshunt was from the west and a reversal was required to run south to the collieries.
Originally the line between the junction and Skares station, to the west, was single track. A single line passed over Skares Viaduct, the line was on the south side. The signal box, shares with Skares station, was on the south side of the line and west of the viaduct.
A loop was laid in between the junction and station, the west end of the loop being connected to the Skares goods yard. for this the box may have been replaced.
The line east to Cronberry Junction closed completely in 1964 and the signal box at Dykes Junction closed.
In 1966 the line west to Belston Junction (excluded) closed.
The formation of the junction still exists.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Skares Dumfries House Ochiltree Auchinleck Cumnock [1st] Cumnock [2nd] Commondyke Lugar Catrine Sinclairston (Private) Cronberry Mauchline Cairntable Halt Drongan Rankinston | Skares Viaduct Dumfries House Siding Whitehill Junction Whitehill 1,2 Colliery Knockterra Signal Box Knockterra Pit Dykes Pit No 1 Garallan Colliery Whitehill 3,4 Colliery Skares Brickworks Hindsward Colliery Glengyron Box Skares Quarry Hindsward 3, 4 Tourist/other Dumfries House [House] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 07/03/1964 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Cronberry (excluded) to Dykes Junction (excluded) closed to freight. |
| 03/04/1966 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Dykes Junction to Belston Junction (excluded) closed to freight. |
