Skares
Location type
StationName and dates
Skares (1901-1951)Opened on the Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
Description
This was a single platform station on a single track line.
The platform was on the north side of the line and there was a small goods yard, to the north approached from Dykes Junction just to the east.
A loop was laid in between the goods yard siding at Dykes Junction which passed over Skares Viaduct en route.
Two new houses now occupy the station site.
Tags
Station
| Nearby stations Dumfries House Ochiltree Auchinleck Cumnock [1st] Cumnock [2nd] Commondyke Sinclairston (Private) Catrine Lugar Mauchline Drongan Cronberry Rankinston Cairntable Halt Trabboch | Dumfries House Siding Skares Viaduct Dykes Junction Whitehill 1,2 Colliery Whitehill Junction Knockterra Signal Box Dykes Pit No 1 Knockterra Pit Garallan Colliery Hindsward Colliery Whitehill 3,4 Colliery Skares Brickworks Burnock Viaduct Skares Quarry Tourist/other Dumfries House [House] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1901 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Skares opened. |
| / /1951 | Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Ayr (excluded) to Muirkirk [2nd] (excluded) closed. Auchincruive, Annbank, Trabboch, Drongan, Ochiltree, Skares, Dumfries House, Cumnock, and Cronberry closed. |
