Kilkerran Station
Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Kilkerran Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 198398
Site Number NS20SE 49
NGR NS 29699 04353
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/198398
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Kirkoswald
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NS20SE 49.00 29699 04353
NS20SE 49.01 NS 29708 04344 Station House
NS20SE 49.02 NS 29636 04351 Station Cottage
NS20SE 49.03 NS 29634 04334 Railway Cottage
NS20SE 49.04 NS 29711 04376 Signal Box
NS20SE 49.05 NS 29712 04363 Level Crossing
NS20SE 49.06 NS 29685 04321 Goods Shed [Unverified location]
(Location cited as NS 297 043) Kilkerran Station, opened 1860 by the Maybole & Girvan Railway. Formerly a 2-platform through station, with the main offices on the down platform. These were in a 1- and 2-storey rubble building, on an L plan, incorporating a dwellinghouse, with crow-stepped gables.
The rubble goods shed also survives, as does the signal-box of typical Glasgow and South Western wooden pattern.
J R Hume 1976.
This intermediate station on the Glasgow - Ayr - Girvan - Stranraer (main) line of the former Glasgow and South Western Rly was opened (by the Maybole and Girvan Rly) on 24 May 1860. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 September 1965, the line remaining open.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 July 2009.
R V J Butt 1995.
