Archaeology Notes

Event ID 698600

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX29SW 35 20332 91986

Location formerly entered as NX 20328 91980.

(Location cited as NX 203 920). The station building at Pinmore is of similar design to that at Pinwherry [NX18NE 52.00], but is brick-built.

J R Hume 1976.

Pinmore Station is depicted on the OS 2nd Edition map (Ayrshire, sheet LXII, 1896).

Information from RCAHMS (TIC), January 2002.

This intermediate station on the Glasgow - Ayr - Girvan - Stranraer (main) line of the former Glasgow and South Western Rly was opened (by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Rly) on 5 October 1877. It closed on 7 February 1882, reopened on 16 February 1882, closed again on 12 April 1886, reopened again on 14 June 1886, and finally closed on 6 September 1965. The line itself remains open to regular passenger traffic.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 July 2006.

R V J Butt 1995.