Girvan No 1 [1st]
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Girvan No 1 [1st] (1906-1935)Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway (Glasgow and South Western Railway).Opened on the Maybole and Girvan Railway.
Description
This signal box controlled the junction for the Maidens and Dunure Railway (1906) where it met the Maybole and Girvan Railway (1860).
The signal box closed in 1935, and Girvan No 2 [1st] (at Girvan Junction) was renamed Girvan No 1 [2nd].
The Maidens line closed to through passenger trains in 1930, Turnberry surviving until 1942. The line closed completely north of Grangestone Siding in 1955. The last portion closed in 1965. The remaining main line was singled, north of Girvan Junction, in 1973.
Today a long siding, a headshunt, runs from the north end of the Girvan Loop to the site of this junction.
Girvan Junction is to the south, Girvan station beyond it.
A proposal to extend the siding to William Grant Distillery Grangeston Distillery along the former course of the former Maidens and Dunure Railway would see a small intermodal railhead installed.
Tags
Junction signal box08/05/2020
| Nearby stations Girvan Girvan (Old) Grangeston Halt Killochan Turnberry Pinmore Dailly Maidens Kilkerran Pinwherry Glenside Crosshill [Ayrshire] Knoweside Maybole Maybole [1st] | Girvan Junction Girvan Viaduct Girvan Shed Grangestone Siding Girvan Shipyard Girvan Harbour Girvan Grangeston Depot Glendoune Viaduct Works Dipple Siding Craighead Lime Works Pinmore Summit Pinmore Tunnel Tourist/other Grangestone Distillery Killochan Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
