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Publication Account
Date 1998
Event ID 1022029
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022029
As with all large town gasworks of the time, Provan had its own internal railway to serve its sidings from the main railway line which brought in coal, lime etc. and sent out coke (burnt coal). It had seven and a half miles of standard gauge and one and a quarter miles of narrow gauge. This would have increased as the site expanded. Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock supplied six narrow gauge locomotives in 1903 (scrapped by late 1950s). A second batch was purchased in 1916.
Provan was nationalised in 1949 and narrow gauge working ceased in 1959. Two of the narrow gauge Andrew Barclay locomotives were preserved.
A Booth, 1996
