Muirkirk Shed
Location type
Loco shedName and dates
Muirkirk Shed (1848-1964)Description
This shed was located to the south of Muirkirk [1st] station and goods yard. The original Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway locomotive shed was single ended. It was originally a two road building.
This shed was replaced by the Glasgow and South Western Raiwlay around 1879 with a four road Andrew Galloway shed with his characteristic tall windows in the gable end. This coincided with the opening of the Muirkirk Branch (Caledonian Railway) in 1879 (the Caledonian Railway was allowed access to the shed for its engines). Approach was from the west. The turntable and coaling area were to the south of the shed.
In the mid 1950s the shed was reduced back to two roads by demolition of the northern portion.
In 1950 passenger trains from the west, over the former Glasgow and South Western Railway route, were withdrawn. The shed survived this closure. However when the line from the east, the former Caledonian Railway route, closed in 1964 the shed also closed. The railway closed altogether in 1968 with the closure of Kaimes Colliery.
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Shed
| Nearby stations Muirkirk [1st] Muirkirk [2nd] Glenbuck Cairntable Halt Inches Cronberry Lugar Commondyke Bankend Cumnock [2nd] Douglas West Drumclog Cumnock [1st] Loudounhill Coalburn | Kaimes Branch Junction Limekilns Muirkirk Iron Works Muirkirk Tar Works Quarries Muirkirk GSW and CR Junction Bankend Pit (Limestone) Limekiln Coal Mine Kaimes Colliery Auldhouseburn Colliery Signal Box Tourist/other Muirkirk No 1 Signal Box [GSW] Muirkirk No 2 Signal Box [GSW] Kaimes Level Crossing Macadam^s Cairn |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/01/1873 | Muirkirk Branch (Caledonian Railway) Caledonian Railway line via Douglas reaches Muirkirk [1st] and is opened to goods and minerals. The Caledonian Railway use the Glasgow and South Western Railway's Muirkirk Shed. |
