Townhead Works
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Townhead WorksDescription
This was the works of J & A Taylor, James Taylor and Andrew Taylor, on Smith Street opposite Ayr station. It was a general engineering works; engineers, millwrights, marine equipment, stationary engines, mine winding engines and boilermakers.
Around 1869-1871 the works built a 0-4-0 saddle tank for the Dalmellington Iron Company. DL Smith notes that the company 'knew nothing of locomotives, and No 8 suffered accordingly'. The locomotive worked on the line from Sillyhole to Pennyvenie Colliery No 1, dating from 1868 (Dalmellington Iron Company (Phase 2)). No 8 was scrapped in 1912.
Later the works of John Wallace & Sons Ltd.
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Works| Nearby stations Ayr [2nd] Ayr Ayr [1st] Newton-on-Ayr Alloway Auchincruive Prestwick Town Maybole Junction [Station] Heads of Ayr [2nd] Prestwick International Airport Auchincruive Colliery Platform Dalrymple Monkton Heads of Ayr [1st) Annbank | Ayr Viaduct Townhead EMU Sidings Ayr Cattle Market Sidings Hawkhill Junction Hawkhill LC Vulcan Foundry [Ayr] Ayr Harbour South Ayr Shipyard [North] Ayr MPD Ayr Shipyard Newton Level Crossing Ayr Shed [1st] Newton Carpet Works Tourist/other Ayr Station Hotel St John^s Tower |
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