Dalmellington Iron Company

Introduction

This covers the first phase of development of the Dalmellington Ironworks at Waterside. The site is also known as Dunaskin. In the lines belong some features are listed which do not belong to the initial period, but were built on these lines during later periods. See individual locations for details.






Dates

  /08/1931Dalmellington Iron Company
Company goes into liquidation but is bought by William Baird & Co who also bought Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Collieries to form Bairds and Dalmellington Ltd.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Drumgrange Incline and Pits

A branch running north from the line west of Waterside which ran up by one incline to Drumgrange No1 and via a second incline to various other iron mines on the plateau. (This was the first version of the inclines, later replaced with the more famous version.)



A tramway connected this ironstone pit to the original Drumgrange incline. Depth unknown.
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Ironstone, 12 fathoms deep. ...

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Ironstone, 12 fathoms deep. ...

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Ironstone, 12 fathoms deep. ...

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Dalmellington Iron Company (Phase 2)


Ironstone, 12 fathoms deep. ...

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Dalmellington Iron Company (Phase 2)


Coal mine 20 fathoms deep. ...

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Dalmellington Iron Company (Phase 2)


Ironstone mine 39 fathoms deep. ...

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Ironstone mine 62 fathoms deep. Opening date unknown - 1854 possibly. ...

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Dalmellington Iron Company (Phase 2)


Ironstone, 16 to 20 fathoms deep. ...

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Ironstone pit, 46 fathoms deep.
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Dalmellington Iron Company (Phase 2)


Ironstone, depth 59 fathoms. Dates assumed and not known. ...

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Ironstone mine, 42 fathoms deep. ...

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Ironstone mine, 20 fathoms deep. Opening date assumed to be same as no 3. ...

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Dalmellington Iron Company (Phase 2)





Iron Works lines and Corbie Crags Incline

Loop off line, on north side, with access to furnace bottoms. Reversing off loop at east end, giving access to furnace tops and, by reversal above furnace tops, access to the Corbie Crags incline giving access to iron mines to the north east.

This station is closed. The two storey station building remains standing although it has lost its platform canopy. It was a single platform station although there were two loops alongside the platform line and a siding on the east side, approached from the north. The goods yard was to the south of the station and on the west side, approached from the south. The signal box (1893) was at the south ...

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Ayrshire and Galloway Railway
Works plate from the ARPG Barclay Fireless locomotive [AB1952/1928]. See image 51874 ...
Colin Miller 05/07/2015
Looking back from the cab of Barclay No.17 (1833/1913) towards Waterside loops as it propels a train of side-tipping hoppers towards the tip at the ...
Bill Roberton 01/11/1977
Time for bed. No.24 climbs up to the engine shed at the end of the shift. On the right is a recently arrived train of empties. May 1974. ...
Bill Roberton /05/1974
Ex-LMS 2P 4-4-0 40574 leaving Waterside on 28 March 1959 heading for Ayr. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/03/1959
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Established by Henry Houldsworth (1770-1853) in 1848 at Dunaskin and later served by Waterside station.
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A photo of the head of a coal hammer/pick with the inscriptions DICo and 21, given to me by an engineman at Waterside many years ago. Per David L ...
Bill Roberton 29/08/2016
The former furnacebank at Dalmellington Ironworks. The high level was served by siding for charging the furnaces. Further sidings at the low level ...
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The former Dalmellington Iron Co Company Store, latterly a pub, adjacent to the station, photographed on 4 April 2010. Rail served at one time by a ...
Colin Miller 04/04/2010
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Barclay 0-6-0 tanks 17 and 24, about to be put to bed at Dunaskin shed, Waterside in 1977. No.17 has a standard chimney but No.24 has been fitted with ...
Bill Roberton //1977
The Fireless locomotive hiding at the ARPG's Dunaskin shed on 30 August 2015, unable to run due to a valve problem in the steam system. See image ...
Colin Miller 30/08/2015
Outside the ARPG's shed at Dunaskin: No. 8, Barclay 0-6-0T in need of a little finishing. ...
Colin Miller 17/07/2016
Inside the shed at the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group 40th Anniversary Open Day on 3 August. Seen here is the Ardrossan Shell Refinery Fireless ...
Colin Miller 03/08/2014
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The west elevation of the fire-damaged Dunaskin Workshops in 1989. These have since been refurbished.
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Bill Roberton //1989
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This is a single platform station on a loop built alongside the railway running up from Dalrymple Junction to Chalmerston Loading Pad (out of use at present, 2018).
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A view at Dunaskin on the (very busy) last open day of 2023, due to landlord selling the premises that contain the cafe, toilets, museum etc. The ...
Colin Miller 27/08/2023
Last open day at Waterside for 2023. ...
Colin Miller 27/08/2023
The Doon Valley Railway is holding Open days again in 2022. The Barclay diesel shunter is presently deputising for Barclay 0-4-0ST No. 10, which is ...
Colin Miller 03/07/2022
First running day of 2023 for the Doon Valley Railway took place on 10th April. Barclay 0-4-0ST No.10 is now back from retubing and was handling ...
Colin Miller 10/04/2023
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Ironstone mine, 40 fathoms deep. ...

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Dalmellington Iron Company (Phase 2)





Minnivey Pits

Coal and ironstone mine.
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Coal mine.
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Sillyhole Pits



Coal and ironstone mine, 97 fathoms deep. ...

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