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This junction was directly east of Muirkirk Junction, Auchinleck. It was the start of two mineral lines which left the north side of the Muirkirk branch heading west before turning north - both lines running parallel for about a third of a mile before the western of the two lines continued north to Gilmilnscroft Colliery and the eastern ran north east to Common, Ballochmyle and Darnconner collieries.

There was a signal box on the north side of the junction and sidings in the 'V' of the junction, running west to terminate north of Muirkirk Junction.

Muirkirk Junction Shed, served from Muirkirk Junction, was to the south. The turntable for the shed was in the 'V' of Gilmilnscroft Junction, just north of the junction sidings.

The branches closed in 1950s, probably 1957 when the signal box was subsumed by a new box at Auchinleck. The junction sidings survived for a short while.

The Muirkirk branch closed in 1976, officially closing in 1978.

The trackbed of the Muirkirk line remains, partly infilled and overgrown. The nearby main line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway, to the south, is open as is the nearby Auchinleck station.

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