Greenwood Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Greenwood Signal Box (1890-1910)Opened on the Busbie Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).
Description
This charmingly named signal box was between Irvine and Dreghorn. It was located on the south side of the junction and controlled the mineral line which ran east and south to Montgomeryfield Colliery, then east to Springside Colliery No 11 Pit and Springside Colliery No 10 Pit.
Latterly the branch served the Montgomeryfield Brickworks.
The box closed around 1910. The brick works branch listed considerably longer.
The main line is now a footpath, it closed in 1965.
Tags
Junction signal box brick works colliery footpath| Nearby stations Dreghorn Irvine Bank Street Drybridge Springside Irvine Gailes Bogside Moor Halt Bogside Cunninghamhead Montgreenan Gatehead Snodgrass Platform Dirrans Barassie Crosshouse | Broomlands Mine Broomlands Colliery Montgomeryfield Colliery Montgomeryfield Brickworks Perceton Colliery No 16 Pit Capringstone Coal Pit No 7 Warrix 1,2 Colliery Perceton Junction Colliery Perceton Coal Pit No 3 Springside Colliery No 11 Pit Capringstone Coal Pit No 8 Shewalton 3,4 Colliery Perceton Coal Pit No 1 Perceton coal Pit No 17 |
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