Wellwood No 1 Pit Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Wellwood No 1 Pit Signal Box (1878-1927)Opened on the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).
Description
This signal box was west of Muirkirk [1st] and controlled access to the short branch to Wellwood No 1 Pit, a coal pit.
The mineral branch ran east then south to the coal mine. The box, opened when the line doubled in 1878, was on the south side of the junction. There were exchange sidings on the branch close to the junction.
The box closed in 1927 when the mine closed.
The railway closed west of Muirkirk [2nd] in 1951 but remained open to freight until 1969.
The trackbed remains intact and can be walked. The former junction can be clearly seen.
Tags
Signal box junction mine01/09/2019
| Nearby stations Muirkirk [1st] Muirkirk [2nd] Glenbuck Cairntable Halt Cronberry Lugar Inches Commondyke Cumnock [2nd] Cumnock [1st] New Cumnock Drumclog Auchinleck Loudounhill Bankend | Wellwood No 1 Pit Pits Kaimes Colliery Pits Muirkirk Tar Works Kaimes Branch Junction Muirkirk Shed Limekilns Muirkirk Iron Works Quarries Bankend Pit (Limestone) Tourist/other Kaimes Level Crossing Macadam^s Cairn Muirkirk No 1 Signal Box [GSW] Muirkirk No 2 Signal Box [GSW] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
