Lugar Works
Location type
WorksNames and dates
Lugar Iron Works (1845-1928)Lugar Works (1928-1968)
Served by the Lugar Ironworks Railway.
Description
This iron works had its own private railway network, largely to the north, serving a number of coal mines. Private workers trains ran from the works to these mines, some of which were quite distant.
Following the closure of the iron works the workshops and loco shed remained in use, inherited by the [[National Coal Board in 1948. The workers trains continued until roughly 1949.
The works site closed in 1968 (around the time of the closure of Kaimes Colliery in Muirkirk). Parts remain in varied use today.
Tags
Iron WorksAliases
Lugar Ironworks| Nearby stations Lugar Commondyke Cumnock [2nd] Cronberry Cairntable Halt Cumnock [1st] Auchinleck Dumfries House Skares Catrine New Cumnock Ochiltree Mauchline Muirkirk [1st] Muirkirk [2nd] | Lugar Mine Rose Junction Craigston Pit Dickston Pit Lugar Ironworks Junction Lugar Brickworks Braehead Pit No 6 Dickston Pit Glenmuir Viaduct Common Junction Cronberry Nos 1,2,3 Sidings Cronberry No 1,2,3 Pits Signal Box Braehead Pits Nos 4 and 5 Freestone Quarry Maid Pit |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 09/08/1848 | Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway) Auchinleck to Muirkirk [1st] opened. The line served the Lugar Iron Works, the Muirkirk Iron Works and various coalmines. |
