Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760639

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS62NE 45 6964 2658.

see also: NS62NE 45.01 6960 2658 Railway Underbridge.

NS62NE 45.02 6960 2650 Station Cottage

Station [NAT]

OS 1:10560 map, 1897.

Station House [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1980.

This station was opened in 1896 to replace the old station (NS62NE 44) as the terminus of the Muirkirk branch of the (former) Glasgow and South-Western Rly, and closed to regular passenger traffic on 5 October 1964.

This line had an end-on junction with the Carstairs - Glenbuck - Muirkirk junction of the (former) Caledonian Rly.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 January 1999.

R V J Butt 1995.