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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 846024
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/846024
NX19SE 42 19776 93062
Extends onto map sheet NX29SW.
Pinmore Tunnel [NAT] (name centred NX 1980 9305)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1979.
Pinmore Tunnel: this tunnel was one of three heavy engineering works at the Girvan [N] end of the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Rly, the others being the Glendoune cutting [NX19NE 181] and the Kinclaer (Pinmore) Viaduct [NX29SW 36]. The single-line bore was 543 yds [497m] long, being lined (when built) in part with bricks and in part with iron plates. The construction was delayed, but was completed by the end of summer 1874. The lining was considered unsafe when inspected in 1886, but was repaired by the Ayrshire and Wigtownshire Rly Co in 1887, after their takeover of the line. A further report (written in 1892, after the takeover of the line by the Glasgow and South Western Rly) noted the need to replace the iron lining-plates with brickwork.
D L Smith 1969.
This tunnel carries the Girvan-Stranraer portion of the Glasgow-Stranraer (main) line of the (former) Glasgow and South Western Rly beneath the SW spur of Dinvin Hill about 1km NW of Pinmore Station (NX29SW 35). It is straight on plan, and remains in regular use by passenger traffic.
The location assigned to this record denotes the approximate midpoint of the tunnel. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from from NX 19592 93172 to NX 20018 92916.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 July 2006.
