Barrmill railway station

Barrmill
Barrmill railway station in 1961
General information
Location	Barrmill, Ayrshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°43′48″N4°36′01″W / 55.7299°N 4.6003°W / 55.7299; -4.6003
Grid reference	NS367515
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
26 June 1873	Opened
5 November 1962	Closed to passengers
Location

Barrmill railway station was a railway station serving the village of Barrmill, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was originally part of the Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway.

History

The station opened on 26 June 1873, ^[1] and closed permanently to passengers on 5 November 1962. ^[1] Freight services continued on the line until 1964. ^[2] The station was the only intermediate station on the five mile branch from Lugton to Beith Town. ^[2] Today the line to Barrmill (now singled) is still in existence until just before the site of the station, where it then heads south along the original route of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway until it reaches DM Beith.

The station site has been redeveloped into a housing estate. After the regular service on the line to Ardrossan ceased buses ran from the station to Saltcoats.

Gallery

• 
  The site of Barrmill station in 2008
• 
  The railway cutting beyond Barrmill station facing Beith, near the old junction with the Dockra mineral line

References

Notes

1. Butt, page 28
2. Stansfield, page 10

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• Reid, Donald L. (2010). Beith, Barrmill & Gateside. Precious memories. ISBN   978-0-9566343-1-3.
• Stansfield, G. (1999). Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways. Ochiltree: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN   1-8403-3077-5.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Beith Line and station closed		Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway		Lugton Line and station closed