Mossblown Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Mossblown Junction (1892-1963)Opened on the Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
Opened on the Monkton and Annbank Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
Description
This junction was west of Annbank station. It opened in 1892 with a new line which ran north west to Monkton Junction near Prestwick.
The signal box was on the south side of the junction. The signal box doubled just before the junction.
The new line was largely goods and minerals. (There was a private halt at Auchincruive Colliery Platform.)
In 1949 the new line ceased to be a through route - the route was severed for a new runway at Prestwick Airport. A headshunt was added for the branch, allowing a train from the Ayr direction to enter the headshunt and reverse onto the branch. The line remained open to serve Auchincruive Colliery Pits No 1,2, 3 and Tofts Colliery.
The signal box closed in 1963.
The closed line has been slightly landscaped at the junction. The Ayr to Annbank line remains open and is now single track.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Auchincruive Colliery Platform Annbank Auchincruive Prestwick Town Tarbolton Prestwick International Airport Monkton Newton-on-Ayr Trabboch Ayr [2nd] Ayr [1st] Ayr Drongan Maybole Junction [Station] Alloway | Auchincruive Colliery Pits No 1,2,3 Tofts Junction Annbank Junction Ayr Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Brockle Bridge Clune Siding Enterkine? Box Oswald^s Bridge Pit Annbank Brick Works Enterkine 9,10 / Ayr 1,2 / Ayr Colliery No 9 Pit Auchincruive Coal Pit Tofts 1 and 2 Collieries Auchincruive Coal Pit Auchincruive 4,5,6,7 [Glenburn] Tourist/other Auchincruive House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
