View from ENE showing NE and SE fronts of up platform building

Description View from ENE showing NE and SE fronts of up platform building

Date 26/7/1964

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

Catalogue Number SC 794425

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Kilkerran Station, South Ayrshire This shows the building on the north-bound platform, from the east-north-east. This wooden structure is of a standard Glasgow & South Western Railway design, incorporating a waiting room, and lavatories. Note the oil lamp to the left of the shelter, still in use in 1964. Note the elaborate floral display, and the neatly clipped box hedge on the platform. The staff at Kilkerran were noted gardeners. The intermediate stations on the Ayr-Girvan line were closed in 1965, as part of the mid-1960s rationalisation of British Railways. This building was then demolished. This station was opened in 1860 by the Maybole & Girvan Railway. It served the estate of the Fergussons of Kilkerran, and its buildings were more substantial than those of other stations on the line. The main building incorporated a house for the agent on the first floor. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT3

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