Auchinleck, Main Street, Station
Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Auchinleck, Main Street, Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Dalshalloch, Station; Auchinleck, Station House; Auchinleck Station
Canmore ID 169446
Site Number NS52SW 80
NGR NS 54998 21950
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/169446
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Auchinleck
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
- Former County Ayrshire
NS52SW 80 54998 21950
Auchinleck Station [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.
Location formerly entered as NS 5490 2197.
Extends onto map sheet NS52SE.
For ground frame (location cited as NS c. 54 21), see NS52SW 82.
(Location cited as NS 549 219). Auchinleck Station, opened 1848 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. A two-platform through station, with the main offices on the up side in a two-storey pinned rubble building on an L plan, incorporating a dwellinghouse.
J R Hume 1976.
This intermediate station on the Glasgow - Carlisle (via Kilmarnock and Dumfries) main line of the (former) Glasgow and South Western Rly was opened (by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Rly) on 20 July 1846. It was closed by British Railways on 6 December 1965, but reopened on 12 May 1984.
The line remained open throughout, and the station remains in regular use by passenger traffic.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 July 2009.
