View from N showing signal box and signal post
SC 766483
Description View from N showing signal box and signal post
Date 14/8/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 766483
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Pinwherry Station, South Ayrshire This shows the signal box at the south end of the loop, which controlled traffic through the station. The signal on the left controlled entry to the single line to the south. The little wooden platforms were for the exchange of tablets, tokens of the right to enter a single-line section of railway. At the time this railway was built, Portpatrick was the port for the short crossing of the Irish Sea. It was subsequently supplanted by Stranraer, and this line has been retained to serve the ferry pier as well as the town, which is the largest in Wigtownshire. This station was on the Girvan & Portpatrick Railway, opened in 1877. The line ran though difficult country, and was single-track, with passing places, one of which was at this station, which served a scattered rural community. The station closed in the 1960s, but the loop is still in use. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/49/32
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