New Cumnock
Location type
StationNames and dates
New Cumnock (1850-1965)New Cumnock (1991-)
Station code: NCK National Rail ScotRail
Where: East Ayrshire, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway.
Open on the G and SW Main Line.
Description
This is a two platform station with original station building still standing on the northbound platform and a car park. The station is actually at Pathhead, on the north bank of the River Nith, New Cumnock is on the south bank.
The station opened with the line in 1850. Its goods yards yard was on the south side and approached from the west, or from the east via the yard's headshunt.
There were single ended sidings on the north side of the station, approached from the east.
The station had a box at either end. The north box was at the west end and on the north side of the line opposite the good yard turnout. It was also on the north side of a junction for a mineral line which ran north west to Pathhead Colliery Pit No 3. The junction was also known as Pathhead Branch Junction.
The south box was at the east end, south side of the line opposite the turnout for the north side sidings and a turntable, New Cumnock Turnable.
The north box was later renamed no 1 and the south box no 2.
The station was resignalled in 1909 and both boxes replaced. One of the north side sidings were looped (a connection being made at the west end) and a new signal box 'New Cumnock' opened at the west end of the northbound platform.
The New Cumnock Watertroughs were east of the station, allowing locomotives to take on water without stopping at the station.
The station closed to passengers in 1965. Platforms were removed in the late 1970s.
In 1991 the station reopened to passengers.
The Crowbandsgate Coal Terminal opened on a re-opened portion of the Pathhead colliery line. This coal depot is west of the station and on the north side of the line.
The signal box remains open.
The station building has been rennovated to become The Wee Train Cafe New Cumnock .
Bank Junction is west of the station, the junction for the Greenburn Loading Point, which has now closed. Historically this led to the New Cumnock Iron Works. The line was reinstated in the 1980s to serve the Knockshinnoch Washery.
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Station
| Nearby stations Cumnock [1st] Cumnock [2nd] Cronberry Lugar Cairntable Halt Commondyke Dumfries House Skares Auchinleck Kirkconnel Ochiltree Muirkirk [1st] Catrine Muirkirk [2nd] Sinclairston (Private) | New Cumnock Turntable Pathhead Branch Junction New Cumnock Watertroughs Crowbandsgate Coal Terminal Pathhead Colliery No 3 Pit Bridgend Colliery Greenburn Junction Bank Junction Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery Knockshinnoch Washery Mansfield Siding Seaforth 1,2,3 Tourist/other Connel Park Level Crossing Boig Road Level Crossing Garclaugh No 3 Level Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 28/10/1850 | Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway completed by opening between Old Cumnock and Closeburn. Stations at New Cumnock, Kirkconnel, Sanquhar and Thornhill. Sidings opened at Mennock Summit for the Leadhills and Wanlockhead mines. The nearest passenger station on the line was at Sanquhar, slightly further west. |
| / /1991 | Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway New Cumnock re-opened. |
| / /2000 | Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway Crowbandsgate Coal Terminal loading point opened immediately west of New Cumnock. |
News items
Books
 An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways |  Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines) |  The Glasgow & South Western Railway a History |
