RAILSCOT | Knockshinnoch Washery

Knockshinnoch Washery

Location type

Works

Name and dates

Knockshinnoch Washery (1983-2004)

Served by the New Cumnock Waggonway and Bank Branch (Nithsdale Iron Company).

Description

A coal loading facility, Knockshinnoch Washery, was opened on the site of Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery's loading point in 1983 and was in use until 2004. It handled a considerable amount of coal from opencast mines.

Tags

Washery

Nearby stations New Cumnock Cumnock [1st] Cumnock [2nd] Dumfries House Lugar Cronberry Commondyke Skares Cairntable Halt Auchinleck Ochiltree Kirkconnel Minnivey Platform Sinclairston (Private) Dalmellington	Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery Seaforth 1,2,3 New Cumnock Iron Works Greenburn Junction New Bank Colliery Pit No 2 Mine New Bank Colliery Pit No 1 Bank Colliery Pit No 6 Lanemark Colliery (Pit No 1) Lanemark Brickworks Lanemark Collieries (Boigside No 2) Bridgend Colliery Pathhead Branch Junction Tourist/other Connel Park Level Crossing Boig Road Level Crossing
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/12/1996	New Cumnock Waggonway Knockshinnoch Washery to Bank Junction (Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway) re-opened to freight.
/ /2004	New Cumnock Waggonway Approximate date of closure of the Knockshinnoch Washery and line from the washery to Greenburn Junction (excluded).