Gasswater Barytes Loading Pad
Location type
MineName and dates
Gasswater Barytes Loading Pad (1917-1964)Served by the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).
Description
A loading pad, and preparation plant, for the Gasswater Baryite Mine which was to east and connected by an aerial ropeway. The mine had its own narrow gauge railway system. The ropeway replaced the western part of this railway.
The loading pad was located by the Wrentnall Cottages (now gone). It was on a short siding from the Gasswater Branch which served Cairnhill 1,2 Mine.
Nothing remains here following opencast mining of the area, however there are surface remains at the mine and along some of the former railway.
Tags
Siding Aerial ropewayExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
06/04/2021
| Nearby stations Cairntable Halt Cronberry Lugar Commondyke Cumnock [2nd] Cumnock [1st] Muirkirk [1st] Auchinleck Muirkirk [2nd] New Cumnock Dumfries House Catrine Skares Ochiltree Mauchline | Gasswater Pit (Coal) Welltrees Mine No 3 Cairnhill 1,2 Mine Welltrees Mine No 4 Stonebriggs Pit No 2 Welltrees Siding Carbellow Ironstone Pit No 3 Cronberry Crossing Dalfad Pit Gasswater Lime Works Cronberry Moor Mine Gass Water Exchange Sidings Gass Water Branch Junction Mortonmuir 8,9 Colliery Tourist/other Stonebriggs Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
