New Luce

Location type

Station

Names and dates

New Luce (1877-1882)
New Luce (1882-1886)
New Luce (1886-1965)

Opened on the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station. The main building was on the southbound platform. Platforms were slightly staggered, the northbound platform being slightly to the north.

The goods yard was on the east side, south of the station, accessed by reversal from half way along the northbound loop line. The goods line crossed the southbound line. There was a goods shed at the south end of the yard. New Luce itself was about a half mile to the east.

The original signal box, of 1877, was at the south end of the northbound platform, replaced with one to the north of the building on the southbound platform.

The station closed in 1965. The loop closed in 1971 when the signal box closed too.

A new house occupies the site of the goods shed. The station building, which was similar to that at Barrhill, has not survived.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map


Chronology Dates

  /  /1939Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway
Due to wartime traffic, Pinmore, Pinwherry, Barrhill and New Luce loops lengthened to 12 carriages. Bryson tablet exchange introduced.
06/06/1965Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway
Pinmore, Pinwherry, Glenwhilly and New Luce stations closed.
  /  /1971Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway
New Luce station demolished.
10/10/2000Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway
The rear coach of a southbound Sprinter derails at Craig No 2 Level Crossing, between New Luce and Challoch Junction. There were no injuries although the coach ended up on its side. The cause was an embankment washout.