Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)

Introduction

This line is open. The opening of this line reduced the distance to Ayr Harbour from the Muirkirk line and kept goods trains from Kilmarnock station, a portion of the Glasgow and South Western Railway main line and the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway.






Dates

  /  /1870Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Line opened. Stations opened: Auchincruive, Annbank, Tarbolton.
04/01/1943Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Annbank (Annbank Junction) (excluded) to Mauchline (excluded) closed to passengers. Tarbolton station closed.
  /  /1951Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Ayr (excluded) to Muirkirk [2nd] (excluded) closed. Auchincruive, Annbank, Trabboch, Drongan, Ochiltree, Skares, Dumfries House, Cumnock, and Cronberry closed.
10/09/1951Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Muirkirk [2nd] to Ayr (Hawkhill Junction) closed to passengers.
14/06/1965Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway
Maybole and Girvan Railway
Annbank (Annbank Junction) to Mauchline re-opened to passengers (with the closure of the Port Road the trains are diverted). The number of trains between Challoch Junction, Girvan and Ayr increases after closure of the Portpatrick Railway.
14/06/1965Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Blackhouse Junction to Hawkhill Junction re-opened for passengers. The re-opened curve was not on the original double track alignment but closer to Ayr MPD.
05/05/1975Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Ayr (Hawkhill Junction) to Mauchline re-closed to passengers. Blackhouse Junction to Hawkhill Junction closed to all traffic.
01/04/1985Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Annbank Junction (excluded) to Mauchline (excluded) closed.
17/03/1988Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Line re-opened from Annbank Junction to Mauchline.
18/07/1998Ayr and Mauchline Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Ayr and Dalmellington Railway
Broomhill Loading Pad to Holehouse Junction (excluded), for the opencast just to the south of Broomhill, re-opened.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This 1870 junction was south of Newton-on-Ayr station (1886). Four lines meet here, the main Glasgow to Ayr railway and branches to Ayr Harbour and Mauchline on the main line to Carlisle.
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Ayr and Dalmellington Railway
Falkland Yard and Ayr Harbour (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
45125 and 60088 Book Law pass under Tam's Brig with signal box in background heading for Ayr shed. ...
Bill Hamilton 03/10/2018
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This was the 1870 junction between the main line from Glasgow and the line from Mauchline, giving both lines access to Ayr. It was a double track curve. The signal box, opened with the junction, was on the east side of the junction, just north of Hawkhill Avenue. The box was replaced with a larger box on a similar site.
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Ayr and Dalmellington Railway
42879 with a Kilmarnock-Ayr local train passes Ayr shed at Hawkhill Junction. 1960. ...
Bill Hamilton //1960
73152 with the SO Newcastle to Stranraer train at Hawkhill Junction in the early 1960s. ...
Bill Hamilton //
72007 Clan MacKintosh proceeding from Ayr station to Ayr shed via Newton Junction with Hawkhill Signalbox in background. This view taken in ...
Bill Hamilton //1961
44798 with a Glasgow St Enoch to Ayr train approaches Hawkhill Junction while a Standard 5 with the SO train from Dumfries to Ayr waits on the curve ...
Bill Hamilton //
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This was the eastern junction of a triangle of junctions. The northern junction is Newton Junction [Ayr] and southern Hawkhill Junction. It was a double track junction.
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Looking east from Walker Road, Ayr along the line to Mauchline, in 1992. There had been a council depot on the right and sidings for the Neptune Works ...
Bill Roberton //1992
Ex-LMS 'Crab' 2-6-0 42912 with brakevan approaching Blackhouse Junction on 24 May 1962. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
Looking west over the former Blackhouse Junction towards Ayr depot in 1992. ...
Bill Roberton //1992
Jubilee no 5690 Leander on the returning RTC West Highlander (carrying the headboard of The Merseyside Express) photographed at ...
Ken Browne 06/09/2010
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This was a two platform station with the main station building on the Ayr bound platform. The goods yard was on the south side, approached from the west. The first signal box was west of the station, between the main line and the goods yard sidings. This was replacec in 1908 with a new box on the north side of the line.
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The out of use oil depot at the former Auchincruive station seen in a view looking west in 1997. The Ayr-Mauchline line is off to the right. ...
Ewan Crawford //1997
One of Ayr shed's 'Crab' 2-6-0s no 42805 with eastbound coal empties at Auchincruive on 24 May 1962. [Ref query 8 September 2018] ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
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This junction was west of Annbank station. It opened in 1892 with a new line which ran north west to Monkton Junction near Prestwick.
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Monkton and Annbank Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Black 5 44785 passing Mossblown Junction westbound in May 1962 on its way back to Ayr. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
One of Ayr shed's Crab 2-6-0s no 42916 brings a westbound goods train through Mossblown Junction on 24 May 1962 heading for home. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
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This is the junction between the lines from Ayr to Mauchline and the branch to Killoch Washery. The junction is immediately west of the former Annbank station.
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One of Ayr shed's Fowler 2P 4-4-0s no 40574 poses during a photostop at Annbank on 9 May 1959 with the SLS Scottish Area 'Land o' Burns' ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/05/1959
Standard Mogul 76097 runs through Annbank Junction with a coal train in May 1962 on its way from Polquhairn to Ayr. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
37376 comes off the Killoch branch at Annbank with a loaded coal train on a foggy day in 1989. The Type 3 later saw service in France but on return to ...
Bill Roberton //1989
All quiet at Annbank Junction. View east in the spring of 1962. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
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This former station was actually in the village of Mossblown. Annbank itself is about a mile to the south by road. A junction remains here today for the Killoch Washery off the Ayr to Mauchline line.
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Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
On its return journey from Carlisle to Motherwell on driver training, DRS 66434 is seen on approach to Annbank on Friday 4th February 2022. The houses ...
Douglas Blades 04/02/2022
Hauled by DRS 66429, a diverted Daventry to Mossend container train passes through Annbank around 2005hrs on a bright sunny evening in May 2021.
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Douglas Blades 22/05/2021
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This was a two platform station with the main station building on the eastbound platform.
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Telephoto view of the 'Galloway Fifties' railtour, hauled by 50034 and 50049, approaching Tarbolton station between Mauchline and Annbank. The station ...
Douglas Blades 11/09/2021
One of Ardrossan shed's Black 5 4-6-0s no 45457, near Tarbolton with a westbound freight in May 1962.
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G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1962
The SLS Land o' Burns railtour from Ayr makes a photostop at Tarbolton station on 9 May 1959.The locomotive is 2P 4-4-0 no 40574. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/05/1959
BR 'Clan' Pacific no 72001 Clan Cameron climbing Tarbolton Bank in 1961 with a Glasgow Salkeld Street - Carlisle parcels train. [Ref query 28 ...
Bill Hamilton //1961
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This unusually elegant double track bridge crosses over the B743 east of Tarbolton. Today it carries one track.
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This is a nine arch double track viaduct over the Water of Fail. The overall length is 405 ft and height 86 ft.
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Horwich Mogul 42910 photographed near Failford, South Ayrshire, on 30 March 1959 with a Kirkconnel - Ayr Harbour coal train. [Ref query 5738] ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/03/1959
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This is a double track six arch viaduct west of Mauchline. It is 204 ft long and 52 ft high. It crosses the Yonderton Burn and a farm road.
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This was a three platform station about half a mile to the south of Mauchline itself. The main station building was on the main line southbound platform. There was a goods yard at the east end, north of the line, approached by reversal.
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Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
47518 passes Mauchline signalbox with a southbound passenger train in 1989. The former D1101 was withdrawn five years later and cut up by MC Metals in ...
Bill Roberton //1989
45160 approaching junction with the G&SW main line with the 1.35 Falkland Junction to Saltney freight. 1961. ...
Bill Hamilton 04/06/1961
44899 calls at Mauchline with the 5.30pm from Glasgow St Enoch to Carlisle. June 1961 ...
Bill Hamilton 04/06/1961
Horwich Mogul no 42835 accelerates south through Mauchline station on an overcast 4 August 1961 after bringing a freight off the Ayr branch. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1961
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