Riccarton Oil Depot
Location type
PlaceNames and dates
Riccarton Goods (1902-1970)Riccarton Oil Depot (1970-)
Opened on the Thirdpart Junction to Mayfield Junction (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
Description
This oil depot received regular deliveries from Grangemouth until recently (2018). The depot is at Riccarton, south of Kilmarnock on a branch from Kay Park Junction, the remains of lines which also ran west to Thirdpart Junction and east to Mayfield Junction.
The depot consists of two sidings after a loop at the end of the single track branch.
The location is a Scottish Fuels distribution depot.
The location was the goods yard, specifically the goods shed, for Riccarton and Craigie station. It was east of that station, on the north side of the line and approached from the east. The former line is now the A71. The yard became the oil depot around 1970. The goods yard closed officially in 1965.
Local
Tags
Oil Depot underused freight facilityExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
