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Cairntable Halt railway station

Coordinates: 55°23′43″N 4°28′34″W / 55.3952°N 4.4761°W / 55.3952; -4.4761
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Cairntable Halt
Overbridge near Cairntable Halt's site
General information
LocationKerse Loch, Ayrshire
Scotland
Coordinates55°23′43″N 4°28′34″W / 55.3952°N 4.4761°W / 55.3952; -4.4761
Grid referenceNS4327314042
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1927Opened
3 April 1950Closed
Ayr to Mauchline Branch
Cronberry
Cronberry Junction
Cumnock
Dumfries House
Skares
Ochiltree
Belston Junction
Rankinston
Cairntable Halt
Holehouse Junction
Killoch Colliery and Washery
Drongan
Trabboch
Weston Bridge Halt
Mauchline Junction
Mauchline
Tarbolton
Annbank
Mossblown Junction
Auchincruive
Newton Junction
Hawkhill Junction
Ayr

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 opened as late as circa 1928 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway on the Holehouse Junction to Rankinston line.

History

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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

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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

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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]

References

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Notes

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  1. ^ Reid, Page 101
  2. ^ Reid, Page 103
  3. ^ a b Butt, Page 51
  4. ^ a b 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

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  • 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.
  • Lindsay, David M. E. (2002). G&SWR Register of Stations, Routes and Lines. G&SWR Society.
  • Reid, Donald L. (2012). The Lost Mining Villages of Doon Valley. Beith: D. L. Reid. ISBN 978-0-9566343-3-7.
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Holehouse Junction
Line and station closed
  London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Holehouse Branch
  Rankinston
Line and station closed