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View from WSW showing train from Lanark approaching station

SC 794455

Description View from WSW showing train from Lanark approaching station

Date 7/7/1962

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

Catalogue Number SC 794455

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Train approaching station, Muirkirk, East Ayrshire This shows the eastern end of the station from the west-south-west, with a train from Lanark arriving. This is a two-car diesel multiple-unit set of a type built by Cravens, and introduced in 1956. The green livery and 'speed whiskers' is the original style of painting of this type of train. The Lanark-Muirkirk line was closed in 1964, as part of the rationalisation of British Railways, and was speedily lifted. The railway to Auchinleck, long used for mineral traffic only, was closed in 1968, when the last coal mine in Muirkirk shut. The first railway to reach Muirkirk was a branch from Auchinleck opened in 1848 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway. The Caledonian Railway opened a line from Douglas in 1873-4, and Muirkirk Station was rebuilt in the late 19th century by the Glasgow & South Western Railway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT10

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/794455

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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