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This junction was located between Kilmarnock and the former station at Gatehead. A box opened here in 1900 and a line opened eastwards to Mayfield Junction in 1902. This was a double track junction. The box was on the south side of the line.

North of the junction was a goods line which began further west at Fairlie Junction and ran parallel and to the north of the main line to Thirdpart Junction where it turned north to serve collieries.

Initially there was no connection between the northern branch and the main line here.

The signal box closed in 1938 when the line east to Mayfield Junction was largely closed - it was removed between Thirdpart Junction and near Riccarton Signal Box.

A siding, using the route of the former branch to the north, served the Moorfield Industrial Estate via a headshunt off the eastbound line.

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