Archaeology Notes

Event ID 856078

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX28SW 58 22578 81648

Location formerly cited as NX 22596 81646.

Barrhill Station [NAT]

OS (GIS) AIB, July 2006.

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, and reopened again on 14 June 1886. Both the station and the line remain open to regular passenger traffic.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 July 2006.

R V J Butt 1995.