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This goods yard was opened by the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway (GBKJ) as Kilmarnock Hill Street Goods. Access was from Kilmarnock Goods Junction from the Glasgow direction, the line entering the yard as a double track.The site was north of Elmslie Woolen Mills and Kilmarnock station with road access from Hill Street. There was a large goods shed with sidings to the north and a cattle bank. In the north of the site was the double track Kilmarnock Joint Shed and its turntable.

Following The Grouping the yard was renamed Kilmarnock Goods 1924.

The goods yard closed in 1969, but the site had a new rail served use. The J. Walker Kilmarnock bottling plant was opened here. This was, on opening, the largest bottling plant in the World.; 3 million bottles could be filled per week. The bottling plant closed in 2012 with the loss of over 700 jobs, a major blow to the town of Kilmarnock.

The site of this former goods yard and bottling plant is now Ayrshire College.

Ayrshire College

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