Cairntable Halt railway station

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Cairntable Halt
Kerse railway bridge.jpg
Overbridge near Cairntable Halt's site
General information
Location Kerse Loch, Ayrshire
Scotland
Coordinates 55°23′43″N4°28′34″W / 55.3952°N 4.4761°W / 55.3952; -4.4761 Coordinates: 55°23′43″N4°28′34″W / 55.3952°N 4.4761°W / 55.3952; -4.4761
Grid reference NS4327314042
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1927Opened
3 April 1950Closed
Ayr to Mauchline Branch
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Cronberry
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Cronberry Junction
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Cumnock
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Dumfries House
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Skares
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Ochiltree
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Belston Junction
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Rankinston
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Cairntable Halt
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Holehouse Junction
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Killoch Colliery and Washery
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Drongan
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Trabboch
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Weston Bridge Halt
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Mauchline Junction
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Annbank
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Mossblown Junction
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Newton Junction
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Ayr
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Cairntable Halt railway station was a railway station serving a rural district and the miners' row of forty-eight houses [1] [2] at the Cairntable Terraces, East Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was by opened as late as circa 1928 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway on the Holehouse Junction to Rankinston line.

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History

This basic halt opened in 1927 [3] or on 24 September 1928 [4] and closed on 3 April 1950. [3] [4] The nearby miners’ row was owned by the Cairntable Coal Co. and provided homes for workers at their nearby colliery. [5] [6]

The site today

In 2012 the site has no remnants of the halt or trackbed and the Cairntable miners rows of Forty-eight apartment houses built in 1914 no longer exist, the last inhabitant having left in 1963. [7] There is a remembrance stone laid on the site of the former village.[ citation needed ]

Micro-history

The trains would deliver bread for the village shop when the snows were too bad for the delivery van. [8]

In 1947 a steam engine got stuck in one of the railway cuttings near the village and the men from the village and Littlemill Pit helped dig the train out of the snowdrift. [9]

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References

Notes

  1. Reid, Page 101
  2. Reid, Page 103
  3. 1 2 Butt, Page 51
  4. 1 2 Lindsay, Part 2.1, Page 1
  5. Cairntable Village Retrieved : 2012-11-12
  6. Caintable Terraces. Retrieved : 2012-11-12
  7. Cairntable Village Retrieved : 2012-11-12
  8. Reid, Page 193
  9. Reid, Page 104

Sources

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Holehouse Junction
Line and station closed
  London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Holehouse Branch
  Rankinston
Line and station closed