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Interior view of Kilmarnock Station showing railbus forming Ayr train.
SC 681189
Description Interior view of Kilmarnock Station showing railbus forming Ayr train.
Date 11/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 681189
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Kilmarnock Station, East Ayrshire The first station on this site was opened in 1843 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway. The station grew in importance with the opening of a through line to Carlisle in 1850, and of a direct line to Glasgow in 1873. This station was rebuilt in 1878 to reflect its significance. This shows the end of the bay platforms at the north end of the station, from the north-west. These platforms are used by local services, in this case a railbus on a service to Ayr via the Kilmarnock & Troon Railway. In the background is a coal train of typical mineral wagons. Railbuses were used on a number of branch lines in Scotland in the 1960s in an attempt to increase traffic and reduce running costs, but they proved unreliable. Of the lines on which they served few have survived, though one of these is the Kilmarnock & Troon line. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/66/34/7
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/681189
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