Muirkirk [2nd]
Location type
StationName and dates
Muirkirk [2nd] (1896-1964)Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Muirkirk Branch (Caledonian Railway).Opened on the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).
Description
This was a two platform station dating from 1896. This is the better known station at Muirkirk which was in use as the lines closed.
This was built east of the Muirkirk [1st] station and the branch to Muirkirk Ironworks, on Glasgow and South Western Railway metals.
The station opened around the time of the completion of the Mid Lanark, Spireslack and Muirkirk Branch (Caledonian Railway), which did not open for through traffic.
At the station services from the west (the Glasgow and South Western Railway) met those from the east (the Caledonian Railway).
The station site is now a private house.
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Station
| Nearby stations Muirkirk [1st] Glenbuck Inches Cairntable Halt Cronberry Lugar Bankend Commondyke Douglas West Drumclog Cumnock [2nd] Coalburn Loudounhill Ryeland Bellfield Platform | Limekilns Muirkirk Iron Works Muirkirk Shed Kaimes Branch Junction Muirkirk GSW and CR Junction Bankend Pit (Limestone) Limekiln Quarries Coal Mine Auldhouseburn Colliery Signal Box Muirkirk Tar Works Tourist/other Muirkirk No 2 Signal Box [GSW] Muirkirk No 1 Signal Box [GSW] Kaimes Level Crossing Macadam^s Cairn |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
