Maybole: A southbound train pulls away from a colourful Maybole station and heads for Girvan on the last day of May 2007.
John Furnevel 31/05/2007
Maybole
Location type
StationName and dates
Maybole (1860-)Station code: MAY National Rail ScotRail
Where: South Ayrshire, Scotland
Opened on the Maybole and Girvan Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Ayr and Stranraer.
Description
This is a single platform station, formerly a two platform station. The southbound platform remains in use, the northbound is overgrown, disused since 1973. The station building, on the in use platform, is of red sandstone and two storeys. It is partly in railway use, partly housing and also houses a convenience store. The building on the former northbound platform has been demolished.
There was an elegant lattice footbridge between the platforms and Cargill Road, but this has been replaced with a more accessible bridge.
There was a goods yard at the east end of the station, approached from the east and north, despite the original Maybole [1st] at the east end of the town being converted into a goods yard. The signal box, dating from 1880, was on the northbound platform, east of the waiting room and footbridge.
The yard and signal box closed in 1955. The goods yard site, following a period of other uses, is now the Carrick Centre .
The line was doubled around 1894/95, there had been a loop at the station before the doubling. It was singled between Dalrymple Junction and Girvan in 1973. (A passing loop was retained at Kilkerran).
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
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NLS Map
08/05/2020
| Nearby stations Maybole [1st] Crosshill [Ayrshire] Cassillis Knoweside Glenside Kilkerran Dalrymple Dunure Heads of Ayr [1st) Heads of Ayr [2nd] Maidens Dailly Alloway Maybole Junction [Station] Turnberry | Maybole Junction [Maybole] Smithston Viaduct Rancleugh Viaduct Kilkerran Acid Works Balchriston Tunnel Doon Viaduct Croy Viaduct Tourist/other Maybole Collegiate Church Myremill Farm Level Crossing Kilhenzie Castle Capenoch Signal Box Sir Charles Fergusson^s Monument Crossraguel Abbey Balchriston Level Crossing Halt Croy Electric Brae |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 24/05/1860 | Maybole and Girvan Railway Opened from Maybole Junction (Ayr and Maybole Railway) to Girvan [1st]. Maybole [1st] is replaced by Maybole and becomes a goods station. |
