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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 816719
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/816719
NS40NE 78.01 From 4741 0593 to 4737 0500
See also NS40SE 34.01 and for other parts of the Gunnery School see NS40SE 34.00; NX49NE 17.00 and NX49SE 36
A railway, built to assist in the construction of the First World War Loch Doon Gunnery School is situated to the W and S of Dalmellington. The railway takes a southerly course from the bridge over the Muck Water and approximates that of the driveway to Craigengillan House to a point about NS 4755 0480 (on map sheet NS40SE), where it diverges and continues S.
The railway was built to standard gauge and ran from about 200m NW of Dalmellington Station via Bogton airfield to a point near Dalfarson NS 4792 0262. It was completed during April 1917. It was the proposal to extend this railway by blasting a tunnel from the railhead at Dalfarson to the northern end of the loch that led to the Air Ministry examining the whole concept of the gunnery school and the halting of all work on this project.
Information from Kirkdale Archaeology, Loch Doon Action Group report.
