Greenan Siding
Location type
PlaceName and dates
Greenan SidingOpened on the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
Description
This pair of sidings was to the east of Heads of Ayr [2nd]. The sidings were served from the east.
There was an unusually tall telegraph pole here, which appears in many photographs. This was on the north side of the line close to the A719 overbridge.
The trackbed east to Alloway and Ayr is now a footpath. Greenan Castle is to the north on the coast.
Tags
SidingExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Heads of Ayr [2nd] Alloway Heads of Ayr [1st) Ayr Ayr [2nd] Dalrymple Maybole Junction [Station] Ayr [1st] Dunure Cassillis Newton-on-Ayr Maybole [1st] Knoweside Auchincruive Maybole | Alloway Viaduct Alloway Tunnel Belmont Siding Alloway Junction Townhead EMU Sidings Ayr Cattle Market Sidings Tourist/other Holiday Camp Alloway Kirk Burns Memorial Old Bridge of Doon Tam O^Shanter Experience Burn^s Cottage Seafield House Belmont Level Crossing Glengall Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
