Killochan railway station

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Killochan
Killochan railway station, Girvan line, South Ayrshire, Scotland - from the road bridge.jpg
Killochan Station looking towards Ayr
General information
LocationBetween Dailly and Girvan
Scotland
Coordinates 55°16′02″N4°48′00″W / 55.267314°N 4.800088°W / 55.267314; -4.800088 Coordinates: 55°16′02″N4°48′00″W / 55.267314°N 4.800088°W / 55.267314; -4.800088
Grid reference NS 22193 00592
Platforms2
History
Original company Maybole and Girvan Railway
Pre-grouping Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
24 May 1860Opened [1]
1 January 1951Closed [2]

Killochan railway station was located in a rural part of South Ayrshire, Scotland and mainly served the nearby Killochan Castle estate. [3] The Killochan bank is the name given to this section of the line, running from Girvan on an uphill gradient to just north of the old station site. [4] Maybole is around nine miles away and Girvan two miles.

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History

Opened to serve the Killochan Castle estate and surrounding population in 1860 [5] by the Maybole and Girvan Railway it closed in 1951. [6] before the era of the Beeching cuts.

Killochan Colliery (aka Bargany Pit), Craigie No. 1 Section, Parish of Dailly was still working up until the 1970s and had a coal washing plant that was used to treat coal from the other pits in the valley. [7] [8] A station solely for the use of miners was located at Bargany, known as Bargany Colliery Platform, opened at an unrecorded date and closed in July 1926. [9]

Grangeston Halt railway station was located nearby as a private facility used by staff from the ICI munitions plant at Grangeston during WWII and closed in 1965.

Station infrastructure

Killochan Castle. Towards Killochan Castle - geograph.org.uk - 472275.jpg
Killochan Castle.

It was originally on a single track section that was later doubled and had two platforms with a signal box, goods yards with a loading dock and a goods shed. [10] The dwelling house was a two-storeyed English Arts and Crafts structure with a very attractive single-storeyed glass conservatory-like waiting rooms section. Like Cassillis railway station that also served a castle and country estate, the main building was rebuilt circa 1900. [11]

A quarry once lay nearby and a narrow gauge railway crossed the line bringing stone into the Killochan goods yard for loading into standard gauge goods trucks. [12] In 1965 the signal box was still present as was the second platform and the old toilet block. [13] A 1970 photograph shows the station substantially intact despite closure in 1951 although only a single platform remains. [14] By 2011 the station buildings had been much altered with the signal box gone, toilet block demolished, waiting room converted into a garage and the substantial chimneys removed from the two storey station house. [15]

Micro-history

Killochan Castle is one of the finest fortified houses in the South of Scotland and was held by the Cathcart family from around 1586 until 1954. In Victorian times it was a busy and populated estate and provided significant freight and passenger traffic for this rural station. [16]

Maybole and Girvan Railway
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Maybole Junction
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Maybole (old)
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Maybole (new)
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Kilkerran
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Dailly
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Bargany Coal Mine
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Killochan
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Grangeston Halt
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Girvan Junction
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Girvan (old)
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Preceding station National Rail logo.svg National Rail Following station
Dailly   ScotRail
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  Historical railways  
Dailly
Line open; station closed
  Glasgow and South Western Railway
Maybole and Girvan Railway
  Girvan
Line open; station open

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References

Notes

  1. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. p. 132.
  2. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. p. 132.
  3. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. p. 132.
  4. "Killochan Station - Canmore". RCAHMS. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  5. Butt (1995) page 132
  6. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. p. 132.
  7. Wham (2013). Ayrshire's Forgotten Railways. A Walkers Guide. p. 71.
  8. "Scottish Mining Website". Scottish Mining Website. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  9. Lindsay, Page 1, Part 2.1
  10. "Killochan Station - Canmore". RCAHMS. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  11. "Killochan Station - Canmore". RCAHMS. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  12. Coia (2012). AyrLine. Driver's eye view. Stranraer to Glasgow.
  13. Wham (2013). Ayrshire's Forgotten Railways. A Walkers Guide. p. 70.
  14. "Killochan Station - Canmore". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  15. Wham (2013). Ayrshire's Forgotten Railways. A Walkers Guide. p. 70.
  16. Tranter (1977). The Fortified House in Scotland. p. 44.

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