View from NE showing NE front of down platform building with part of footbridge on right

Description View from NE showing NE front of down platform building with part of footbridge on right

Date 28/7/1969

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 712788

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Kilkerran Station, South Ayrshire This station was opened in 1860 by the Maybole & Girvan Railway, largely to serve the estate of the Fergussons of Kilkerran. It was latterly the only original station belonging to that company to survive, and apart from the addition of a footbridge appeared to be largely unaltered. This view shows the station house from the north, with the footbridge, probably added in the 1880s or 90s, to the right. The upper floor of this building was the agent's house, a typical arrangement in the period 1840-c1880. The crow-stepped gables had parallels in stations built in the late 1840s. Kilkerran Station remained open until the late 1960s, despite the withdrawal of services from most of the other wayside stations on the Ayr to Girvan line at an earlier date. The goods shed and the station building seen here were still in existence in the late 1990s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/49/30

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/712788

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