View from ESE looking up platform 3

Description View from ESE looking up platform 3

Date c. 1990 to 1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 794429

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Train in Kilmarnock Station, Langlands Brae, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire This shows the south-bound island platform from the east-south-east, with a train from Glasgow. The train is composed of two two-car 'Sprinter' diesel railcar units, introduced in the early 1990s to replace the first generation of diesel railcars, introduced in the 1950s. To the rear is a whisky blending and bottling building. Until the 1960s this island platform was used for interchanging passengers between main-line trains with trains for Galston, Newmilns and Darvel, and there was a large building with a glazed awning. Sprinter trains are still used on this line. This station was opened in 1843 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway, and rebuilt on a much larger scale in 1878 by the Glasgow & South Western Railway. Services using this station were much reduced in the mid-1960s, in the rationalisation of British Railways. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT6

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap