Auchenmade railway station

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Auchenmade
Auchenmade railway station 2007.jpg
The remains of Auchenmade in 2007
General information
LocationNear Auchentiber, Ayrshire
Scotland
Coordinates 55°42′04″N4°38′20″W / 55.7010°N 4.6389°W / 55.7010; -4.6389 Coordinates: 55°42′04″N4°38′20″W / 55.7010°N 4.6389°W / 55.7010; -4.6389
Grid reference NS342484
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-grouping Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping LMS
Key dates
3 September 1888Opened
1 January 1917Closed
2 March 1919Reopened
4 July 1932Closed to regular services
The overbridge at South Auchenmade Farm with the station remains in the background. South Auchenmade overbridge.jpg
The overbridge at South Auchenmade Farm with the station remains in the background.
Old railway workers cottage at Auchenmade. Auchenmade station house.JPG
Old railway workers cottage at Auchenmade.

Auchenmade railway station was a railway station approximately three miles north-east of Kilwinning on the B707, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It served the hamlet of Auchentiber and the surrounding rural area as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. The station was 6.75 miles from the Lugton East Junction. [1]

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Infrastructure

The OS maps of 1896 and 1910 show a substantial infrastructure with a double track mainline and four sidings running off to a loading dock and a goods shed with a crane, a signal box at the far end of the southern end of the eastern platform, signal posts, weighing machine, pedestrian overbridge and several platform buildings. [2] In 1946 the main platform buildings were still substantially intact. [3]

Until around 1909 the Auchenmade Quarry and Brickworks company operated a private siding here. The old clay quarry near South Auchenmade Farm is at now flooded and little evidence of the brickworks and associated railway sidings remains. [1]

Lissens Goods was the next railway site, a goods station, down the line towards Ardrossan, supervised by staff at Auchenmade Station and closed on 30 March 1953. [1] Railway workers cottages, similar to those at Auchenmade, still survive at Lissens.

The sidings operated at Lylestone Quarry were supervised by staff from Auchenmade Station. [1]

Goods trains ran along this line until 30 March 1953, [4] however in 1958 the sidings were still present. [5]

History

The station opened on 3 September 1888. [6] It closed between 1 January 1917 and 2 March 1919 due to wartime economy, [6] and closed permanently on 4 July 1932. [6] Boat trains to Ardrossan ran along this line until 1939. [4]

Opened by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, then joining the Caledonian Railway it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. It was then closed by that company.

A feature of World War II was the use of the line for what locals called the night time 'Ghost Trains' that carried injured service personnel to the Glasgow hospitals from where they had been landed at the port of Ardrossan.

The site today

The platforms of Auchenmade station remain intact today as do the railway workers cottages and the loading dock. The railway fencing and gate survives however the bridge abutments have been removed.

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Kilwinning
Line and station closed		  Caledonian Railway
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
  Giffen
Line and station closed

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