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Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock And Ayr Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![View looking south over Howwood station under construction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/757.jpg "Howwood")
![Train heading fro Ayr having passed Wallneuk Junction in Paisley.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1945.jpg "Wallneuk Junction")
![Ayr Harbour Junction facing north east towards Falkland Yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2419.jpg "Ayr Harbour Junction")
![Ayr Harbour Junction facing south west towards Ayr Harbour.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2420.jpg "Ayr Harbour Junction")
![Looking south over Falkland Yard. A very new 334 runs north to Glasgow. A 60, 08 and three 66s work in the yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2421.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![Looking north at Kilmarnock in the 1980s.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2422.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking south in Kilmarnock in the 1980s.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2423.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking north at Kilmarnock in the 1980s. Not the recently lifted bay platform track to left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2424.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The instrument from Howwood signalbox for Lochside box, Lochwinnoch. This was photographed in the training centre at Slateford.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2460.jpg "Howwood")
![The closed line between Dalry and Kilmarnock - looking towards Kilmarnock over the former Montgreenan station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2461.jpg "Montgreenan")
![Aerial view of Elderslie area. Bottom right; Elderslie. Centre left to bottom right; GPK&AR. Top left to bottom right; Paisley Canal line. Centre left to top right; Paisley and Barrhead District line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7264.jpg "Ferguslie Park")
![The former burrowing connection at Elderslie West Junction looking west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7327.jpg "Elderslie West Junction")
![A Hunterston-Ravenscraig iron ore train heads east to Paisley Gilmour Street. The embankment was once pierced here by the Paisley and Barrhead District Railway. Ferguslie station was located here.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8778.jpg "Ferguslie")
![A 37 runs west light at Ferguslie.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8779.jpg "King Street Signalbox")
![A Glasgow bound train passes Elderslie East Junction. The Canal line was to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8780.jpg "Elderslie")
![The Elderslie fly-under which allowed trains for Kilbarchan, Kilmacolm and Greenock to turn north to Cart Junction without fouling the mainline. Pretty much where the canal once passed under.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8781.jpg "Elderslie")
![Ravenscraig-Hunterston iron ore empties passing a Glasgow train at Johnstone.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8782.jpg "Johnstone")
![Old diagram of lines around Elderslie Station, showing just how important this junction once was. <br><br>[Graham Morgan //]](/images/11000/11721.jpg "Elderslie")
![20s heading south through the (then) recently rennovated station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/13000/13935.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![Well turned out Fowler 2P no 40608 off Hurlford shed stands at the north end of Kilmarnock in the late 1950s with a train for St Enoch.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/23000/23793.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Shed scene at Hurlford in the 1960s.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/27000/27981.jpg "Hurlford")
![Pickersgill ex-CR 0-6-0 no 57650 stands alongside Hurlford shed in the late 50s/early 60s. The locomotive was withdrawn from here in November 1961. [See image 28776]<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/28000/28755.jpg "Hurlford")
![Built at Swindon in 1954, BR Standard class 3MT 2-6-0 no 77017 was allocated to Hurlford shed, where it is seen alongside the coaling stage in the early 1960s. It remained on Hurlford's allocation until its eventual withdrawal by BR in November of 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/29000/29091.jpg "Hurlford")
![Shed scene at Hurlford (67B) in the 1960s. Nearest the camera is BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76108, allocated here from 1963 until its eventual withdrawal in mid 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/29000/29809.jpg "Hurlford")
![Corkerhill Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73122 stands with a lengthy freight in the sidings at Irvine Goods, thought to be in the early sixties, with the direct line to Kilmarnock via Crosshouse over to the left. The origin and destination of the train are unknown (see query responses). The locomotive was withdrawn from Corkerhill in 1965, the same year the line was closed completely between Irvine and Crosshouse.<br><br>[Ken Browne Collection //]](/images/35000/35984.jpg "Irvine Goods")
![Name board from Dalgarven signal box which stood between Dalry and Kilwinning. Demolished c. 1968. The board is now in the care of the Museum of Ayrshire Life, Dalgarven Mill.<br><br>[Colin Miller //]](/images/37000/37547.jpg "Dalgarven Signal Box")
![Howwood station under construction in 2000. The view looks south. This was opened on the site of the station which opened in 1876 and closed in 1955. A very short lived Howood terminus station existed at the same site in 1840.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/54000/54026.jpg "Howwood")
![View north at Dalry in the 1970s. The station originally had quite a complicated layout with staggered platforms, loops and sidings from turnplates (see contemporary map on the <a target='external' href='http://maps.nls.uk/view/74926824'>NLS site</a>), then a more conventional two platforms, later expanded to four and is now two again. The goods yard was to the left and approach to Blair Iron works to the right. To the south was a short lived Dalry Junction station at the point of divergence of the Ayr and Kilmarnock routes.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford Collection //]](/images/54000/54186.jpg "Dalry")
![Glasgow & South Western Railway No 99 at Hurlford Shed, around 1920. The engine was No 51 when built in 1910 and became No 99 in 1919. It later became LMS 17521 and was finally withdrawn in 1937. Hurlford Shed itself was closed in 1966. Photograph by AC Roberts.<br><br>[Graham Morgan Collection //1920]](/images/17000/17809.jpg "Hurlford")
![General view of Johnstone Station, probably taken around 1930. Note Johnstone No.1 Signal Box just beyond the bridge, controlling Johnstone Junction amongst other things. Johnstone No.2 Signal Box was slightly South of the station and lasted until 1985 when it burned down <br><br>[Graham Morgan Collection //1930]](/images/39000/39506.jpg "Johnstone")
![Glasgow - Ayr Express. Stanier 4.6.0 5179. Passing Milliken Park.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1939]](/images/12000/12130.jpg "Milliken Park")
![Darvel - Kilmarnock train at Kilmarnock. Standard <I>2</I> 4.4.0 665.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1939]](/images/12000/12132.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A train from Dumfries calls at Mauchline on 18 April 1949 on its way to St Enoch. The locomotive is one of Hurlford shed's 2P 4-4-0s, no 40663. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/04/1949]](/images/62000/62712.jpg "Mauchline")
![Auchinleck. CR 0.4.4T 15203 on Muirkirk train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/09/1949]](/images/7000/7532.jpg "Auchinleck")
![An Ardrossan Winton Pier - Kilmarnock stopping train, recently arrived at Irvine on 24 September 1949. Locomotive in charge is Hurlford shed's 2P 4-4-0 no 40644. Standing on the down line in the background is St Rollox based ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 no 57557. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/09/1949]](/images/51000/51683.jpg "Irvine")
![A Dumfries - Glasgow stopping train passing Hurlford on 22 May 1951. The train is hauled by Black 5 44718 and observed by a pair of well balanced young enthusiasts on the boundary fence.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 22/05/1951]](/images/60000/60698.jpg "Hurlford")
![After running through Crosshouse station, Caley <I>Jumbo</I> 57353 is about to pass Crosshouse Junction signal box on 6 May 1953 with empties from the Dalry direction. [See image 45840] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1953]](/images/51000/51505.jpg "Crosshouse")
![Ardrossan shed's ex-Caledonian 'Jumbo' 0-6-0 no 57274 struggles up the line from Irvine and on through Crosshouse station on 6 May 1953 with a coal train heading for Kilmarnock.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1953]](/images/52000/52721.jpg "Crosshouse")
![A Kilmarnock - Ardrossan train approaching Crosshouse station on 6 May 1953 behind 2P 4-4-0 40644. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1953]](/images/55000/55515.jpg "Crosshouse")
![2P 4-4-0 40643 leaving Crosshouse on 6 June 1953 at the head of an Ardrossan - Kilmarnock train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1953]](/images/57000/57529.jpg "Crosshouse")
![A busy Wednesday evening at Kilmarnock station on 29 July 1953. Locomotives from left to right are 40667 (Ardrossan), 40689 (Hurlford), 42190 (Corkerhill) and 40664 (Ayr). <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/07/1953]](/images/51000/51446.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![2P 40644 leaving Kilmarnock on 3 May 1954 with a train for Darvel.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 03/05/1954]](/images/63000/63020.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Hurlford based ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 57651 shunting St Marnock's goods depot, Kilmarnock, on 6 May 1954. [Ref query 6403] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1954]](/images/51000/51602.jpg "St Marnocks Goods")
![Ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 57569 trundles through Kilmarnock with a down freight on 6 May 1954.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1954]](/images/52000/52546.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Caledonian 3F 0-6-0 no 57639 with a goods train passing St Marnock's goods depot, Kilmarnock, on 6 May 1954. [See image 51602] [Ref query 6948]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1954]](/images/52000/52708.jpg "St Marnocks Goods")
![Class 2P 4-4-0 40571 prepares to leave Kilmarnock on 6 May 1954 with a train for St Enoch via Dalry.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1954]](/images/52000/52769.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A down freight trundles through Hurlford in the spring of 1954 behind Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48612. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1954]](/images/56000/56325.jpg "Hurlford")
![Shunting St Marnock's goods depot, Kilmarnock, on 6 May 1954 is ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 57651.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1954]](/images/56000/56335.jpg "St Marnocks Goods")
![Stanier 8F 2-8-0 no 48708 passing Kay Park Junction, Kilmarnock, on 6 May 1954 with a down freight. [Ref query 71]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1954]](/images/57000/57086.jpg "Kay Park Junction")
![Carlisle Kingmoor based Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45640 <I>Frobisher</I> passing Kay Park Junction on 6 May 1954 with a St Enoch - Dumfries train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1954]](/images/62000/62385.jpg "Kay Park Junction")
![A Glasgow local waits to leave Kilmarnock in June 1954 behind BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T 80000.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/06/1954]](/images/61000/61145.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Class 2P 4-4-0 40651 calls at Barassie on 7 July 1954 with a Glasgow - Girvan train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/07/1954]](/images/51000/51797.jpg "Barassie")
![Jumbo 57279 passing Barassie signal box on 7 July 1954 with a Troon freight. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/07/1954]](/images/51000/51854.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![Ex-Caledonian 3F 0-6-0 57614 approaching Barassie on the line from Lochgreen Junction on 7 July 1954 with a freight for Kilbarchan.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/07/1954]](/images/52000/52850.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![Caley 'Jumbo' 57355 runs south through Barassie on 7 July 1954 with a pair of brake vans. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/07/1954]](/images/54000/54235.jpg "Barassie")
![Fairburn tank 42697 passing Dalry Junction on 27 July 1955 with an Ayr - Glasgow St Enoch train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/07/1955]](/images/56000/56663.jpg "Dalry Junction")
![A southbound train takes the Kilmarnock route at Dalry Junction on 27 July 1955. The locomotive is Hurlford based 2P 4-4-0 no 40688.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/07/1955]](/images/59000/59342.jpg "Dalry Junction")
![Arran boat express passing Dalry on 27 July 1955 behind Ardrossan shed's 2P 4-4-0 no 40626. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/07/1955]](/images/60000/60182.jpg "Dalry")
![Ardrossan based 2P 4-4-0 no 40578 calls at Glengarnock on 27 July 1955 with a Glasgow St Enoch - Largs service. [Ref query 19 March 2018]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/07/1955]](/images/63000/63271.jpg "Glengarnock")
![Approaching Lochgreen Junction on 5 August 1955 is one of Hurlford shed's class 2P 4-4-0s no 40687 at the head of a Glasgow St Enoch - Girvan train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/08/1955]](/images/56000/56319.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![Black 5 44943 southbound passing Lochgreen Junction on 6 August 1955 with a boat train destined for Stranraer Harbour. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/08/1955]](/images/53000/53601.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![Standard class 5 4-6-0 73079 leaving Prestwick on 6 August 1955 with a Girvan - Glasgow train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/08/1955]](/images/54000/54142.jpg "Prestwick")
![A train from Kilmarnock arrives at Prestwick on 6 August 1955 behind 2P 4-4-0 40610. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/08/1955]](/images/55000/55114.jpg "Prestwick")
![Black 5 45160 photographed just north of Falkland Junction on 6 August 1955 with an Ayr - Edinburgh Princes Street train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/08/1955]](/images/57000/57481.jpg "Falkland Junction")
![Scene on the south side of Ayr harbour in September 1955 with TS <I>Duchess of Hamilton</I> berthed in her usual place. Built for the Caledonian Steam Packet Company by Harland and Wolff at Govan, she was the regular Ayr steamer and had been fitted with a bow rudder (the wheel is just visible on the foredeck) to assist movements at Ayr, which was difficult to enter under certain conditions. The railway sidings here were reached from the goods station located to the north of the harbour via a now-dismantled bridge, the piers of which still stand in the river. [See image 45697]<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 09/09/1955]](/images/36000/36905.jpg "Ayr Harbour South")
![Jubilee 4-6-0 45691 <I>Orion</I> photographed at Johnstone High on Saturday 14 September 1957 at the head of a down 'Starlight Special'. [See image 27077] [Ref query 1014] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/09/1957]](/images/59000/59232.jpg "Johnstone")
!['Canal Wharf' sign on the platform at Johnstone (then Johnstone High) station in September 1957. [Ref query 14 September 2017] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/09/1957]](/images/60000/60905.jpg "Johnstone")
![A St Enoch bound train from Ardrossan Winton Pier runs through Elserslie station on 14 September 1957 behind class 2P 4-4-0 40626. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/09/1957]](/images/61000/61990.jpg "Elderslie")
![A DMU on the Troon avoiding line approaching Lochgreen Junction on what appears to be an ECS working if the 'C' headcode is to be believed (there were few passenger trains that used the line avoiding Troon station). The photographer is standing on the overbridge that still exists, with the Lochgreen municipal golf course off to the right. Lochgreen Junction's up main starting signal lattice post can be seen behind the double framed telegraph pole. The nomenclature of the lines in the days that this photo appears to have been taken (around 1959/60) was the avoiding lines were the 'main lines' and the lines via Troon passenger station the 'branch lines'.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1959]](/images/32000/32599.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![A pair of Hurlford shed's Fowler 2P 4-4-0s nos 40661 and 40689 wait with their trains in the bays at the north end of Kilmarnock station on 27 March 1959. On the left is the 4.16pm to Glasgow St Enoch and on the right the 4.13pm to Ayr. Both locomotives had been withdrawn by the end of 1960.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 27/03/1959]](/images/22000/22799.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![McIntosh 3F 0-6-0 no 57643 simmers in the shed yard at Hurlford in March 1959.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 27/03/1959]](/images/32000/32282.jpg "Hurlford")
![Ex-LMS 4F 0-6-0 44331 approaching the site of Monkton Junction with a northbound freight on 28 March 1959. The town of Prestwick stands in the background. [Ref query 3418]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/03/1959]](/images/53000/53007.jpg "Monkton")
![An Ayr bound train photographed at speed near Prestwick on Saturday 28 March 1959. Locomotive in charge is Jubilee 45711 <I>Courageous</I>. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/03/1959]](/images/54000/54916.jpg "Prestwick")
![An Ayr - Glasgow train arrives at Prestwick on 28 March 1959 behind <I>Crab</I> 2-6-0 42808.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/03/1959]](/images/55000/55053.jpg "Prestwick")
![Hurlford class 2P 4-4-0 40597 passing Lochgreen Junction on 28 March 1959 at the head of a Dalmellington - Kilmarnock train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/03/1959]](/images/58000/58262.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![Ayr's Horwich Mugul no 42808 surrounds itself in steam as it restarts a train for St Enoch away from the Prestwick stop in the spring of 1959.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/03/1959]](/images/62000/62090.jpg "Prestwick")
![A Dumfries - Glasgow St Enoch local photographed shortly after leaving Mauchline in the spring of 1959. The locomotive is Black 5 4-6-0 no 45081. [Ref query 11 April 2018]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/03/1959]](/images/63000/63578.jpg "Mauchline")
![Standard Mogul 77015 at Byrehill Junction on 4 April 1959 with an Ardrossan - Kilmarnock train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/58000/58573.jpg "Byrehill Junction")
![Looking south east towards Byrehill Junction on 4 April 1959 as <I>Crab</I> 2-6-0 42808 takes the route north towards Kilwinning with a train from Ayr to Glasgow St Enoch. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/62000/62449.jpg "Byrehill Junction")
![Standard tank 80030 leaves Irvine on 4 April 1959 with a local train for Ayr. [Ref query 7 February 2018]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/62000/62799.jpg "Irvine")
![A down Largs train crossing the viaduct at Elderslie on 5 May 1959. The locomotive is Ardrossan shed's Fairburn 2-6-4T 42697.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1959]](/images/59000/59174.jpg "Elderslie")
![Class 2P 4-4-0 40687 at Elderslie on 5 May 1959 with a Kilmarnock via Beith train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1959]](/images/63000/63086.jpg "Elderslie")
![40689 diverging at Elderslie No 2 Junction on 5 May 1959 with a train for Kilmarnock via Kilbirnie. Elderslie station stands in the left background. [Ref query 31 March 2018] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/05/1959]](/images/63000/63464.jpg "Elderslie No 2 Junction")
![Black 5 45083 leaving Mauchline on 9 May 1959 with a St Enoch - Carlisle train. [Ref query 1094]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/05/1959]](/images/59000/59945.jpg "Mauchline")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T 42202 arrives at Kilwinning on 4 July 1959 with a Glasgow St Enoch - Ayr train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/51000/51528.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Horwich Mogul 42879 runs through Falkland Junction on 4 July 1959 with a Glasgow - Ayr train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/57000/57697.jpg "Falkland Junction")
![A Saturday St Enoch - Darvel train restarts from the Irvine stop on 4 July 1959. In charge is one of Hurlford shed's 2P 4-4-0s no 40645.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/61000/61009.jpg "Irvine")
![72009 <I>Clan Stewart</I> runs through the site of the original Troon station on 4 July 1959 with the 5.10pm Glasgow St Enoch - Stranraer train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/62000/62834.jpg "Troon (Old)")
![Jubilee 45645 <I>Collingwood</I> passing the site of Beith North station on 14 July 1959 with a Glasgow - Ayr express. [Ref query 5365] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1959]](/images/56000/56546.jpg "Beith North")
![BR Standard tank 80000 at Beith North in the summer of 1959 at the head of a Glasgow - Largs express. [Ref query 986]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1959]](/images/58000/58595.jpg "Beith North")
![BR light Pacific 72009 <I>Clan Stewart</I> near Beith in July 1959 with a St Enoch - Stranraer express. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1959]](/images/59000/59791.jpg "Beith North")
![Standard class 5 4-6-0 73104 with a St Enoch - Largs train north of Glengarnock the summer of 1959. [Ref query 1115]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1959]](/images/60000/60285.jpg "Glengarnock")
![Class 2P 4-4-0 40688 calls at Glengarnock on 14 July 1959 with a train for Kilmarnock. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1959]](/images/62000/62357.jpg "Glengarnock")
![Corkerhill Jubilee 45720 <I>Indomitable</I> at speed near Monkton on 20 July 1959 with a Glasgow St Enoch - Stranraer express. [Ref query 1005]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 20/07/1959]](/images/59000/59064.jpg "Monkton")
![A St Enoch - Stranraer Boat Express runs south through Monkton on 20 July 1959 behind Fairburn 2-6-4T 42193. [Ref query 3 March 2018] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 20/07/1959]](/images/63000/63074.jpg "Monkton")
![Caley <I>Jumbo</I> no 57284, complete with stovepipe chimney, stands on Hurlford shed in July 1959. The locomotive spent much of its life at Hurlford, being eventually withdrawn from here in October 1962. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/07/1959]](/images/28000/28541.jpg "Hurlford")
![Hurlford based 2P 4-4-0 No. 40687 gives Standard Class 5 4-6-0 No. 73045 of Holbeck shed some assistance for the climb to Polquhap summit with the up <I>'Thames Clyde Express'</I> in August 1959, seen here prior to departing from Kilmarnock. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson /08/1959]](/images/39000/39188.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![57615 with a northbound coal train passing Lochside in August 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 20/08/1959]](/images/26000/26917.jpg "Lochside")
![Standard Class 4 2-6-4T no 80008 heads north through Lochside on 20 August 1959 with a Glasgow Bound train.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 20/08/1959]](/images/38000/38894.jpg "Lochside")
![Opened by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway in 1840 as Lochwinnoch, the station was renamed Lochside in 1905 after a second Lochwinnoch station, nearer the town, was opened by the G&SW on the Kilbarchan Loop. This photograph shows Lochside in 1959, some 4 years after closure, with Black 5 4-6-0 no 44721 heading north with a parcels train. The station was subsequently reopened to passengers in June 1966, co-incident with the closure of the Kilbarchan Loop and the 1905 station. Lochside reverted to its original name of Lochwinnoch in May 1985.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 21/08/1959]](/images/26000/26487.jpg "Lochside")
![A southbound railbus approaching Lochgreen Junction near Troon, in August 1959, on a Kilmarnock - Dalmellington working. The Troon avoiding line can been seen coming in from the left in the background.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 21/08/1959]](/images/28000/28035.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![40574 takes a train through Lochside station bound for Glasgow in the summer of 1959. The station had been closed to passenger traffic 4 years earler but was subsequently reopened in 1966. The name Lochside was changed to Lochwinnoch in May 1985.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 21/08/1959]](/images/28000/28748.jpg "Lochside")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42131 has just passed Lochgreen Junction, Troon, heading north on 21 August 1959. The train is on what was then the 'down branch line' with the 'main line' (the now closed Troon avoiding line) running off to the left at the junction. The train is the 5.10pm Ayr - Kilmarnock mail & passenger, conveying a through Royal Mail sorting van next to the locomotive. The mail van would be transferred to the rear of the 5.30pm Glasgow St Enoch - Carlisle train at Kilmarnock and, on reaching Carlisle, would be attached to the up 'West Coast Postal'.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 21/08/1959]](/images/33000/33814.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42122 brings a freight north through Lochside station in August 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 21/08/1959]](/images/33000/33833.jpg "Lochside")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80030 takes a Glasgow train through the closed Lochside station in August 1959. Reopened in 1966, this is the present day Lochwinnoch station (name changed in 1985).<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 21/08/1959]](/images/34000/34507.jpg "Lochside")
![Corkerhill shed's Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73123 runs north light engine through Lochside in August 1959. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 21/08/1959]](/images/37000/37955.jpg "Lochside")
![View south over Lochside station on August 1959 as Black 5 no 44727 passes through with a northbound freight.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 21/08/1959]](/images/38000/38737.jpg "Lochside")
![42808 heading for Glasgow at Lochside (now Lochwinnoch) on the 22nd of August 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/31000/31318.jpg "Lochside")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76095 takes a train north through Lochside on 22 August 1959. (The station reopened in 1966 and was renamed Lochwinnoch in 1985.) <br>
<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/32000/32438.jpg "Lochside")
![Black 5 no 45194 heads north with a train through Lochside in August 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/32000/32738.jpg "Lochside")
![WD 2-8-0 no 90229 runs north through Lochside with a freight in August 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/34000/34847.jpg "Lochside")
![Jubilee 45728 <I>Defiance</I> heads north through Lochside with a freight in the summer of 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/35000/35187.jpg "Lochside")
![Crab 2-6-0 no 42919 heads north through Lochside with a lightweight freight in the summer of 1959. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/36000/36206.jpg "Lochside")
![One of Ayr shed's 'Crab' 2-6-0s no 42879 heads north through Lochside in August 1959 with a Glasgow train.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/38000/38157.jpg "Lochside")
![Crab 2-6-0 no 42809 with a Glasgow bound passenger train running north through the closed Lochside station in August 1959. Reopened in 1966, this is the present day Lochwinnoch station (name changed in 1985).<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/08/1959]](/images/35000/35521.jpg "Lochside")
![General view over Hurlford shed in the summer of 1960. Note the lineup of stored class 2P 4-4-0s centre right. Hurlford shed was officially closed in October 1966. <br><br>[David Stewart 28/08/1960]](/images/46000/46525.jpg "Hurlford")
![Class 2P 4-4-0 40638 passing Kay Park, Kilmarnock, on 22 May 1961 with a Darvel to Ardrossan train. [Ref query 995] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 22/05/1961]](/images/58000/58902.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![D3008 passing Hurlford with an up goods train on 22 May 1961. The class 08 was delivered new to nearby Hurlford shed from Derby Works in December 1952 and remained on the allocation there until the depot was eventually closed towards the end of 1966.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 22/05/1961]](/images/60000/60080.jpg "Hurlford")
![Scene at Hurlford looking south on 22 May 1961. Horwich Mogul 42905 is about to pass with a down coal train, while classmate 42834 waits in the shed sidings. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 22/05/1961]](/images/63000/63504.jpg "Hurlford")
![Pickersgill 3F 0-6-0 no 57689 at Hurlford on 22 May 1961 with a short freight off the Darvel branch. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 22/05/1961]](/images/63000/63610.jpg "Hurlford")
![A fine summer Saturday in July 1961 sees Leeds based 'Peak' D19 arriving at Kilmarnock's platform 3 with the down <I>Thames - Clyde Express</i>.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/07/1961]](/images/59000/59266.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A down coal train about to run through Auchinleck station on 29 July 1961. The locomotive is Royal Scot 46121 <I>Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow Regiment</I>.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/07/1961]](/images/59000/59969.jpg "Auchinleck")
![View of Ballochmyle Viaduct from the south west in the summer of 1961. [See image 7160]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1961]](/images/59000/59257.jpg "Ballochmyle Viaduct")
![Caley Jumbo 57359 crossing Ballochmyle Viaduct on 4 August 1951 with a relief mineral train from Barony Pit. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1961]](/images/61000/61111.jpg "Ballochmyle Viaduct")
![The stored locomotive line at Hurlford shed in the spring of 1962. Nearest the camera is <I>Jumbo</I> 57353, officially withdrawn from 67B in November the previous year.<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/45000/45621.jpg "Hurlford")
![Drummond Caledonian 2F 0-6-0 57300 alongside Hurlford shed in April 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/45000/45729.jpg "Hurlford")
![Withdrawn Caley <I>Jumbo</I> 57353 stored awaiting disposal on the scrap road at Hurlford shed, Kilmarnock, on 17 April 1962. The 1894 veteran was eventually cut up at Connels of Coatbridge in June the following year. <br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/45000/45840.jpg "Hurlford")
![Gresley V3 2-6-2T no 67633 in the shed yard at Hurlford in April 1962, within a few days of its reallocation there from 65C Parkhead. <br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/46000/46071.jpg "Hurlford")
![Drummond 2F 0-6-0 no 57359 standing in a line of locomotives awaiting disposal at Hurlford shed in April 1962. The end in this case came in June 1963 in the yard of Messrs Connel of Coatbridge.<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/46000/46626.jpg "Hurlford")
![Crab 2-6-0 no 42741 alongside the coaling stage at Hurlford shed in April 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/46000/46663.jpg "Hurlford")
![Class 2P 4-4-0 no 40642 on the scrap road at Hurlford in the spring of 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/46000/46857.jpg "Hurlford")
![Class 2P 4-4-0 no 40640 stands in a line of condemned locomotives awaiting disposal at Hurlford shed in April 1962. 40640 had been withdrawn from Ayr in September 1961 and was scrapped at Connels, Coatbridge, in July 1963. <br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/46000/46979.jpg "Hurlford")
![An old coach photographed in the sidings at Hurlford in April 1962. The vehicle is thought to be a former Glasgow & South Western Railway passenger brake van, dating from the early 1900s. [Ref query 5623]<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/47000/47032.jpg "Hurlford")
![A lineup of condemned locomotives alongside Hurlford shed on 17 April 1962, including class J83 0-6-0T no 68458. Withdrawn from Ayr shed 3 months earlier, 68458 was cut up at Campbell's of Airdrie in April 1963.<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/47000/47185.jpg "Hurlford")
![Caley <I>Jumbo</I> 0-6-0 no 57331 on Hurlford shed in April 1962, some 5 months before withdrawal. <br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/47000/47273.jpg "Hurlford")
![Steam locomotives stored in the sidings alongside Hurlford shed in April 1962, including Stanier 2-6-2T no 40151. The locomotive was officially withdrawn from 67B at the end of that year and was disposed of through MMS Wishaw in December 1963. <br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/48000/48668.jpg "Hurlford")
![Pickersgill 3F 0-6-0 no 57650 awaiting disposal in the sidings at Hurlford in April 1962. Withdrawn from 67B the previous November, the locomotive was cut up at Connels of Coatbridge in May 1963.<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/48000/48901.jpg "Hurlford")
![Gresley V3 2-6-2T 67607 at Hurlford shed on 17 April 1962. The locomotive was 'officially' withdrawn from here 8 months later and eventually cut up at Darlington Works in November 1963.<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/49000/49083.jpg "Hurlford")
![Local Hero. Gresley class V3 2-6-2 67679 on the scrap road at Hurlford on 17 April 1962. The locomotive had been one of a number of previously withdrawn examples reinstated to work the emergency steam hauled services put into operation while remedial work was carried out on the new electric <I>Blue Trains</I>.<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/49000/49348.jpg "Hurlford")
![One of the Pickersgill Caledonian 0-4-4 tank locomotives built primarily for banking duties, no 55240, standing out of use in the shed yard at Hurlford on 17 April 1962. Withdrawn from Ayr shed some 9 months earlier, 55240 met its end at Connels of Coatbridge in October 1963.<br><br>[David Stewart 17/04/1962]](/images/49000/49403.jpg "Hurlford")
![The BLS/SLS <I>Scottish Rambler</I>, comprising CR 123 and the two preserved Caledonian coaches, stands at Crosshouse station on the north western outskirts of Kilmarnock on 24 April 1962. The special had been scheduled to travel from Glasgow Central to Kilmarnock by way of Whitecraigs, but on the day was routed via Dalry due to a signalling error. <br><br>[David Stewart 20/04/1962]](/images/45000/45918.jpg "Crosshouse")
![Preserved Caledonian Railway 123 stands at Kilmarnock on 20 April 1962 with the BLS/SLS <I>Scottish Rambler</I> railtour.<br><br>[David Stewart 20/04/1962]](/images/48000/48593.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Crab 42918 of 68B Dumfries struggles south through Kilmarnock station in August 1962 - the day of my visit to Hurlford Shed. Went on the 1.15pm (SO) ex-St Enoch (1.32pm at Paisley Canal) via the Kilbirnie loop and Dalry; returned on the 6.5pm (SO) from Kilmarnock via Dalry to Paisley Gilmour Street. The photograph was taken while awaiting departure from Kilmarnock behind a standard Class 4 2-6-0, which left on time, but subsequently encountered problems raising vacuum at Lochwinnoch, with the result that the train was very late arriving at Gilmour Street. Amazing what trivia sticks in the mind after so many years!<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1962]](/images/20000/20103.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![78026 deputising for the Ayr railbus at Kilmarnock in August 1962.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1962]](/images/20000/20116.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![<I>Jumbos</I> on the scrap line at Hurlford shed in August 1962. 57249 was officially withdrawn at the end of that very month but remained <I>stored</I> until May 1964 pending eventual disposal at Arnott Young, Troon.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1962]](/images/22000/22558.jpg "Hurlford")
![Looking across the tracks at Kilmarnock in August 1962 as Stanier <I>Jubilee</I> class 4-6-0 no 45734 <I>Meteor</I> restarts the 2pm Glasgow St Enoch - Dumfries train.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1962]](/images/25000/25444.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Stovepipe chimneyed Jumbo no 57353 on the scrap line at Hurlford in the summer of 1962, standing alongside a condemned class 2P.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1962]](/images/28000/28420.jpg "Hurlford")
![Ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 no 57650 on a scrapline at Hurlford shed in the summer of 1962. [See image 28755]<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1962]](/images/28000/28776.jpg "Hurlford")
![A WD 2-8-0 propelling a brake van from the Darvel direction passing under the bridge at Barleith, by Hurlford shed, in August 1962. Barleith station closed in April 1964.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1962]](/images/34000/34527.jpg "Barleith")
![Withdrawn locomotives stored at Hurlford in August 1962 included Gresley class V3 2-6-2 67679, latterly a native of 65C Parkhead shed. Following the forced withdrawal of the recently introduced <I>Blue Train</I> electric fleet in December 1960, due to the discovery of a design fault in the switchgear, 67679 had been one of a number of <I>redundant</I> steam locomotives commandeered to work the emergency steam services put into operation pending remedial work and subsequent reintroduction of the new electric trains.<br><br>[Colin Miller 12/08/1962]](/images/19000/19990.jpg "Hurlford")
![One of the early examples of Black 5s to be withdrawn, no 45266, stands at the head of a line of <I>out of use</I> locomotives, mainly ex-Caley 0-6-0s, at 67B Hurlford, its home shed, in August 1962. <br><br>[Colin Miller 12/08/1962]](/images/20000/20004.jpg "Hurlford")
![Stanier 2-6-2T 40151 stands abandoned amongst the various withdrawn locomotives at Hurlford shed in the summer of 1962.<br><br>[Colin Miller 12/08/1962]](/images/20000/20047.jpg "Hurlford")
![Caley 0-6-0 no 57581 in the process of running round the SLPF <i>'Covenanter'</i> railtour at Ayr goods on 20 October 1962 prior to returning north to St Enoch via Greenock Princes Pier.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 20/10/1962]](/images/37000/37055.jpg "Ayr [1st]")
![77017 with a Kilmarnock - Ardrossan (Winton Pier) train arriving through the rain at Irvine on 25 May 1963. The Standard class 3 2-6-0 had been sent to 67B Hurlford new from Swindon Works in 1954 and remained there until withdrawal in 1966.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/05/1963]](/images/36000/36597.jpg "Irvine")
![A wet and misty Saturday morning on the Ayrshire coast in May 1963 sees Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42190 bring an Ardrossan (Winton Pier) - Kilmarnock train into the platform at Irvine. [Note the Station Master!] <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/05/1963]](/images/36000/36617.jpg "Irvine")
![A wet and overcast day at Irvine station in May 1963. A Kilmarnock - Ardrossan (Winton Pier) train has just arrived at the northbound platform behind Hurlford shed's Standard class 3 2-6-0 no 77017.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/05/1963]](/images/37000/37849.jpg "Irvine")
![View south at Glengarnock in June 1963 as a Jubilee 4-6-0 approaches with an Ayr-Glasgow train. [See image 29987]<br><br>[Colin Miller /06/1963]](/images/25000/25334.jpg "Glengarnock")
![A4 at Auchinleck. 60004 <I>William Whitelaw</I> stands at Auchinleck on 30 June 1963 with the RCTS <I>'Three Summit Rail Tour'</I>. The A4 had taken over from 103+57581 [see image 34245] and was about to take the special south as far as Carlisle. <br><br>[K A Gray 30/06/1963]](/images/34000/34626.jpg "Auchinleck")
![Ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0 no 90463 leaves the Kilmarnock platform at Barassie with a short ballast train in the summer of 1963.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/22000/22308.jpg "Barassie")
![A northbound goods at Glengarnock in July 1963. In charge is Black 5 no 45479 of 67D Ardrossan shed.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/31000/31952.jpg "Glengarnock")
![An up fast service running north through Glengarnock station in fading light on a July evening in 1963.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/50000/50292.jpg "Glengarnock")
![BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73005 of Corkerhill shed runs into a smart looking Dalry station in July 1963 with an <I>extra</I> for Largs. [See image 29973] for the same scene forty seven years later. <br><br>[Colin Miller 19/07/1963]](/images/21000/21618.jpg "Dalry")
![The rubber band on the railbus seems to have broken yet again - the stand-in service hauled by 80111 from Kilmarnock to Ayr about to go under the A78 bridge (as it was in August 1963). Whole area now under the dual carriageway bridge.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1963]](/images/26000/26140.jpg "Barassie")
![Failed railbus again! Kilmarnock to Ayr service in August 1963 in the hands of BR Standard class 4MT no 80091 arrives at Barassie.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1963]](/images/26000/26338.jpg "Barassie")
![A Black 5 tows the Ayr railbus south through Barassie station in August 1963 on its way back to Ayr MPD for attention.<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/08/1963]](/images/20000/20131.jpg "Barassie")
![A scene of peace and tranquility at Barassie in August 1963. With the time at just after quarter past one on the station clock, a member of staff tends flower beds on the Kilmarnock platform.<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/08/1963]](/images/20000/20517.jpg "Barassie")
![A regular steam turn at Barassie in August 1963 was as stand-in for the failed diesel railbus on the Ayr - Kilmarnock route. The locomotive on this particular day was Standard class 4 2-6-0 76096 of Ayr shed.<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/08/1963]](/images/20000/20529.jpg "Barassie")
![A Glasgow - Ayr DMU arrives at Barassie in August 1963. [See image 30000]<br><br>[Colin Miller 23/08/1963]](/images/21000/21465.jpg "Barassie")
![D2437, the Barassie wagon works shunter, out on a foray up the main line prior to propelling its train back into the works yard in the Summer of 1963. [Built by the G&SWR in 1902, the former Barassie carriage and wagon works became a wagon repair facility in 1928 until its eventual closure in 1974.]<br><br>[Colin Miller 23/08/1963]](/images/21000/21477.jpg "Barassie")
![72005 pauses at Mauchline with Carlisle local.<br><br>[John Robin 30/09/1963]](/images/6000/6678.jpg "Mauchline")
!['Crab' 42880 with empty mineral wagons at Falkland Junction, Ayr, in September 1963.<br><br>[John Robin 30/09/1963]](/images/8000/8248.jpg "Falkland Junction")
![One of Ayr shed's <I>Crab</I> 2-6-0s no 42910 with a coal train passing Falkland Junction box northbound on 30 September 1963.<br><br>[John Robin 30/09/1963]](/images/8000/8249.jpg "Falkland Junction")
![A view of the 1848 Ballochmyle viaduct, seen here looking back from the brake van of the Catrine goods on 30 September 1963. [See image 59257]<br><br>[John Robin 30/09/1963]](/images/26000/26096.jpg "Ballochmyle Viaduct")
![One of Ayr shed's <I>Crab</I> 2-6-0s no 42917 approaching Glengarnock station northbound in March 1965 hauling mineral wagons. [Etched in the memory as, after passing through the station, the locomotive proceeded to shunt back into the steelworks sidings to the north. When our train to Paisley pulled out a short time later, we passed a small gathering in the sidings discussing how best to get the derailed wagons back on the road!]<br><br>[Colin Miller /03/1965]](/images/22000/22581.jpg "Glengarnock")
![44723 in the background at Auchinleck.<br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/7000/7168.jpg "Auchinleck")
![A southbound freight passes through Auchinleck station on 2 April 1965. The locomotive is Dumfries based Black 5 no 44723. <br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/46000/46568.jpg "Auchinleck")
![One of Ayr shed's <I>Crab</I> 2-6-0s no 42702 entering Mauchline off the line from Annbank in April 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 02/04/1965]](/images/49000/49931.jpg "Mauchline")
![45660 at Kilmarnock on Leeds to Glasgow train.<br><br>[John Robin 24/07/1965]](/images/7000/7158.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The ex-Highland Railway Jones Goods 4-6-0 no 103 at Kilmarnock en route to Dumfries with a BLS railtour on 17 October 1965.<br><br>[G W Robin 17/10/1965]](/images/21000/21416.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![HR 'Jones Goods' no 103 takes water at the south end of Kilmarnock station on 17 October 1965 with a BLS special heading for Dumfries. The special returned north from Dumfries via Lochmaben, Lockerbie and the WCML [see image 21410]. <br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 17/10/1965]](/images/41000/41417.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Ivatt class 2MT 2-6-0 no 46451, photographed standing in the shed yard at Hurlford in the 1960s. The locomotive was withdrawn from here at the end of 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/38000/38607.jpg "Hurlford")
![The caption on the reverse of this undated British Railways PR&PO photograph<br>
reads 'The new Timber-P wagon constructed at Barassie Workshops receive the<br>
finishing lick of paint from painters Willie Burgess and Willie Clearie.' The picture probably dates from 1966 when redundant Conflat P stock was rebuilt into the 22T Timber-P design for use on timber trains between Crianlarich Lower and the then new pulp and paper mill at Corpach.<br><br>[PR&PO British Railways (Douglas Blades Collection) //1966]](/images/60000/60749.jpg "Barassie Workshops")
![61342 makes a photostop at Bogside Race Course in April 1966 with <I>Scottish Rambler no 5</I>. The B1 was taking the special south from Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier to Girvan goods. [See image 30034]<br><br>[K A Gray 10/04/1966]](/images/23000/23519.jpg "Bogside Race Course")
![<I>Scottish Rambler no 5</I> during a photostop at Bogside Race Course in April 1966 on the leg from Ardrossan to Girvan behind B1 61342. Opened in 1840 as plain Bogside the suffix Race Course was carried between 1952 and 1965. The station closed, having reverted to its original name, on 2 January 1967.<br><br>[K A Gray 10/04/1966]](/images/30000/30034.jpg "Bogside Race Course")
![A summer only Blackpool - Glasgow train, with 45444 in charge, runs through Lochside in July 1966, a month after the station had reopened to passenger services, having been closed since 1955.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1966]](/images/26000/26486.jpg "Lochside")
![61278 stands at Kilmarnock on 3 December 1966 with the BR (Scottish Region) <I>Last B1 Excursion</I> from Edinburgh. The train continued over the G&SW to Carlisle, returning home via the Waverley route. Built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow in 1948, no 61278 was withdrawn from Dundee, Tay Bridge shed in April 1967 and cut up at Arnott Young, Carmyle, in January of 1968.<br>
<br><br>[Bruce McCartney /12/1966]](/images/25000/25057.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![B1 no 61278 at Kilmarnock on 3 December 1966 with the BR (Scottish Region) <I>Last B1 Excursion</I> from Edinburgh to Carlisle.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /12/1966]](/images/34000/34671.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The BR (Scottish Region) <I>Last B1 Excursion</I> stands at Kilmarnock on 3 December 1966 behind 61278. The train travelled from here to Carlisle on the G&SW, returning to Edinburgh via the Waverley route.<br><br>[K A Gray 03/12/1966]](/images/28000/28975.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A Glasgow bound InterCity DMU passing Dalry (near Roche Products) in the Spring of 1967.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1967]](/images/23000/23568.jpg "Dalry")
![A Clayton north of Dalry with a down goods in 1967. The small vans might possibly be gunpowder vans bound for Ardeer with a barrier wagon marshalled immediately behind the locomotive.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1967]](/images/25000/25556.jpg "Dalry")
![Up van train behind an unidentified EE Type 3 passing Dalgarven, just north of Kilwinning, in the spring of 1969.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1969]](/images/51000/51771.jpg "Dalgarven Signal Box")
![A southbound Inter-City DMU on the main line has just passed under the flyover at the southern end of the Kilbarchan Loop at Brownhill Junction, as it heads for Dalry in April 1969. The train is just about to pass Brownhill Junction signal box.<br><br>[Colin Miller /04/1969]](/images/24000/24136.jpg "Brownhill Junction")
![On a dull, overcast day in April 1969, a Kilmacolm-bound DMU is about to take the dive-under to the Princes Pier line at Elderslie. <br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /04/1969]](/images/24000/24957.jpg "Elderslie")
![On a dull, damp April morning in 1969, a Glasgow-bound InterCity DMU runs under the Kilbarchan loop flyover south of Glengarnock station shortly after passing Brownhill Junction.<br><br>[Colin Miller /04/1969]](/images/30000/30202.jpg "Brownhill Junction")
![View towards Paisley on 2 April 1969 as a westbound goods runs through the site of Elderslie station behind an EE Type 3, shortly after removal of the platforms.<br><br>[Colin Miller 02/04/1969]](/images/23000/23000.jpg "Elderslie")
![A Derby dmu heading for Largs, photographed at Dalgarven, north of Kilwinning, in June 1969.<br><br>[Colin Miller /06/1969]](/images/52000/52082.jpg "Dalgarven Signal Box")
![A southbound DMU for Largs passes Dalgarven signal box and crosses the River Garnock.<br><br>[Colin Miller /06/1969]](/images/55000/55447.jpg "Dalgarven Signal Box")
![Scene in the yard at Barony Colliery, Auchinleck, in March 1972. The colliery, which employed 1200 people at its peak, finally closed in 1989. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/03/1972]](/images/32000/32561.jpg "Barony Colliery")
![A Leeds - Glasgow Central train entering Kilmarnock in May 1972 behind a 'Peak' type 4 locomotive.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/05/1972]](/images/4000/4335.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Site of the former Crosshouse station, Ayrshire, in August 1974, just over 8 years after closure. The route north west towards Dalry lies straight ahead, while the trackbed on the left once carried the line to Irvine.<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/08/1974]](/images/22000/22321.jpg "Crosshouse")
![Photograph taken from a train passing Elderslie West Junction on 28th July 1975. All that remained of the station at this time was the foot bridge, now demolished. Where the trucks are stabled next to No.1 SB is now part of the National Cycle Network. <br><br>[Graham Morgan Collection 28/07/1975]](/images/18000/18491.jpg "Elderslie")
![Platform scene at Kilmarnock looking north in October 1982 with a Glasgow Central - Leeds train approaching.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/10/1982]](/images/4000/4334.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking south from Craigend (formerly Fullarton) Road overbridge along the Troon avoiding line to Lochgreen Junction, 29 October, 1982, Class 20 No 20179 swinging onto the Troon loop with a northbound freight. The junction had been reduced to a single lead with facing crossover circa 1973 (I believe) and was taken out completely not long afterwards as the Troon avoiding line closed, Saturday, 27 November, 1982.<br><br>[Robert Blane 29/10/1982]](/images/58000/58911.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![Looking north towards Troon (Old) station and onwards to Barassie along the Troon avoiding line from the bridge carrying Craigend (formerly Fullarton) Road over the line just north of Lochgreen Junction, 29 October, 1982, the signals in view controlled by Lochgreen Junction Signalbox, which closed (officially), Sunday, 28 November, 1982.<br><br>[Robert Blane 29/10/1982]](/images/58000/58925.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![Class 20 No 20179 swinging onto the Troon loop at Lochgreen Junction with a northbound freight, 29 October, 1982, shortly before the junction closed, along with the Troon avoiding line, 27 November, 1982.<br><br>[Robert Blane 29/10/1982]](/images/59000/59053.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![Barassie Junction old and new looking SSW, Monday, 29 November, 1982, the rear end of the freight hauled by 27021 & 20152 swinging round onto Troon loop towards Troon station on the original alignment, the Troon avoiding line closed Saturday, 27 November to allow the junction to be altered (signalboxes at Barassie Junction and Lochgreen Junction, at the south end of the avoiding line, officially closed, Sunday, 28 November). The new deviation, temporarily laid behind Barassie Junction Signalbox, opened that morning, hence the shine on the rails already, the track realigned onto a fair curve after the Signalbox had been removed (not particularly clear in what is a rather poor photo are the workmen up on the 'box roof - it didn't last too much longer and was gone before the end of the week.<br><br>[Robert Blane 29/11/1982]](/images/58000/58958.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![Unidentified Class 47 diesel photographed heading north with a freight train on the newly opened (that morning) junction deviation at Barassie, Monday, 29 November, 1982, the redundant Signalbox (officially closed the day before) already being demolished and its funeral pyre emitting plenty of smoke. The old 'Down' (to Irvine) line behind the Signalbox was later lifted but the 'Up' line was retained, the Kilmarnock line running into this line (with facing connection off the re-aligned main line at the south end of Barassie station platforms), the route south onto the Troon avoiding line became the run-round loop in Barassie Yard, and the old alignment onto the Troon Loop and Troon station became the 'up' loop.<br><br>[Robert Blane 29/11/1982]](/images/58000/58964.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![Looking north from the road bridge over Barassie Junction and the line to Irvine (left) plus that to Kilmarnock (right), Monday, 29 November, 1982, a coal train heading north on the main line past the civil works associated with the remodelling of the junction during the preceding weekend. The Kilmarnock line platform edges had been cut back some time previously (that part of the station closed to passengers in 1969), with part of the junction modifications involving singling the line to the converging point to pre-existing single line to Kilmarnock outside the station to the northeast and slewing the remaining track to accommodate the crossover off the Irvine line. Note also that the Irvine line platform ends had been cut back too, this to accommodate the slewing of both main lines onto the new alignment towards Troon station (this unaffected by the temporary 'joggle' around the Signalbox, which was 'faired out' after the 'box was demolished) and also for the crossover onto what was to become the 'Up' (to Ayr) loop. Old semaphore signals were in process of being felled, whilst the new colour-light versions can be seen beyond the footbridge.<br><br>[Robert Blane 29/11/1982]](/images/58000/58975.jpg "Barassie")
![A Brush Type 4 takes the 10.55 Stranraer Harbour - London Euston north through Falkland Junction on 17 April 1983. [Ref query 7154] <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/1983]](/images/51000/51801.jpg "Falkland Junction")
![A pall of smoke from burning rubbish hangs over Falkland yard on 17 April 1983 as a Brush Type 4 passes through northbound with the 1055 Stranraer Harbour - London Euston.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/1983]](/images/51000/51965.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![The station building at Dalry, looking north in 1984.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford Collection 12/05/1984]](/images/57000/57848.jpg "Dalry")
![The signal box at the south end of Dalry station in 1984. The town can be seen behind the box, the station was off to the right and Dalry Junction is far off to the left. The box was originally Dalry Station, until 1906, and then became Dalry No2. Closure came in 1986 by which time No1 and No3 were already closed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford Collection 12/05/1984]](/images/57000/57876.jpg "Dalry")
![A photograph of the last train (1350 Glasgow Central to Ardrossan Harbour) to use the Down (formerly Up) Slow on Saturday 27/10/84. It is approaching No 49 Down Slow Outer Home at clear. The view is looking north.<br>
<br>
From Sunday 28/10/84 the Down and Up Slow lines were cut back<br>
to their present location at Swinlees.<br><br>[Donald Hillier 27/10/1984]](/images/57000/57996.jpg "Dalry")
![The last train to use the Down (formerly Up) Slow between Swinlees and Dalry was the 1350 Glasgow Central to Ardrossan Harbour on Saturday 27/10/84. It is seen here nearing the station.<br><br>[Donald Hillier 27/10/1984]](/images/58000/58025.jpg "Dalry")
![08344 stands at Irvine circa 1985. It is alongside the old loading bank which was its normal stabling point adjacent to the Down Main across from the signal box which it is obscuring. The 08 was the resident ballast sidings shunter here and travelled to and from Ayr MPD for refuelling every Saturday morning.<br><br>[Ken Browne //1985]](/images/30000/30958.jpg "Irvine")
![View south on a rainy day at Kilmarnock station circa 1985, showing the Glasgow and Ayr bay platforms<br><br>[Ken Browne //1985]](/images/31000/31422.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Irvine Signal box circa 1985<br><br>[Ken Browne //1985]](/images/31000/31430.jpg "Irvine")
![47 454 stands with a train at Kilmarnock in August 1985.<br><br>[David Panton /08/1985]](/images/18000/18158.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The previous canopy 'glazing' at Kilmarnock was corrugated fibreglass which became steadily more grimy and by the time it was due for replacement it was almost opaque. When this picture of the bay platforms was taken in August 1985 it still had many more years to go. Compare this with the station in 2010 [see image 30172], after reglazing with proper glass and at least two repaintings of the ironwork. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton /08/1985]](/images/31000/31073.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The signal box at Byrehill Junction in August 1985, taken from the window of a special approaching from Dubbs Junction heading for Ayr. Signalman George Stewart is standing at the door of the box, which closed in 1986. [Ref query 6888] <br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/08/1985]](/images/51000/51662.jpg "Byrehill Junction")
![The surviving signal box at Bogside (formerly Bogside Race Course) in the summer of 1985. Photographed from a train passing the site of the station which closed in 1967. [See image 23519]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/08/1985]](/images/51000/51669.jpg "Bogside Race Course")
![View from a special passing Irvine signal box on 31 August 1985. The train was operating as part of an open day taking place at British Rail's Ayr depot.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/08/1985]](/images/51000/51703.jpg "Irvine")
![A passing shot of Falkland Junction Signal Box on 31 August 1985. It had closed on 7 April that year as part of the Ayrshire electrification project. Taken on the occasion of a BR Ayr Open Day, with various specials laid on.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/08/1985]](/images/51000/51713.jpg "Falkland Junction")
![A DMU coastbound passing the derelict Beith North signal box in 1986.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1986]](/images/24000/24867.jpg "Beith North")
![A pair of class 37s with an eastbound coal train at Beith North in 1986.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1986]](/images/24000/24879.jpg "Beith North")
![A Class 107 DMU, Glasgow - bound at Beith North in 1986. At least the first car is a 107 - by this time the dmus were on their last legs and some weird and wonderful lash-ups were in use.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1986]](/images/59000/59878.jpg "Beith North")
![Kilmarnock, night, after the last train. Oops, how do I get home?<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8071.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The closed Crosshouse station looking north-west. Route to left for Irvine and Ardrossan route straight ahead for Dalry and Glasgow. Not long after line lifted.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8073.jpg "Crosshouse")
![The approach to Glengarnock Steelworks. Layout of line altered before closure of the works.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8194.jpg "Glengarnock")
![Glengarnock, looking to Glasgow.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8195.jpg "Glengarnock")
![Glengarnock looking to Glasgow with the Yound Distribution Depot to left. The L&AR branch to Kilbirnie crossed over the top in the distance.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8196.jpg "Glengarnock")
![The Young Distribution Depot just to the north of Glengarnock station and link to the closed steelworks.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8197.jpg "Glengarnock")
![Looking to Glasgow at Johnstone station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8198.jpg "Johnstone")
![Glasgow bound train at Johnstone.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8203.jpg "Johnstone")
![Glasgow bound train at Saltcoats.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8204.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Brownhill Junction looking north. From left to right; Kilbarchan Line, Kilbarchan Line flyover connection (embankment) and original and still open route.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8213.jpg "Brownhill Junction")
![The Kilbarchan line merging with the GPK&AR line at Brownhill junction. Some ballast remained on the closed route. The line was quadruple from here to Dalry Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8214.jpg "Brownhill Junction")
![Swinlees Junction, just north of Dalry, now serves a Roche plant, it formerly served a coalmin further north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8215.jpg "Swinlees Junction")
![Southbound train at Dalry.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8216.jpg "Dalry")
![Looking south at Dalry. Dalry was a large four platform (2 islands) station on the quadruple section of line from Brownhill Junction to Dalry Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8217.jpg "Dalry")
![Dalry looking north. Dalry had been a large four platform station on a quadruple track section. Off to the right was the rail-served Blair Ironworks.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8218.jpg "Dalry")
![Swinlees Junction looking north. The Dalry Roche plant is out of sight to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8219.jpg "Swinlees Junction")
![Southbound train crossing the viaduct north of Dalry station. View looks west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8220.jpg "Dalry")
![Looking north at Kilwinning Junction. Ardrossan line to left and mainline to Ayr to right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8221.jpg "Kilwinning Junction")
![Looking south at Kilwinning. Ayr line to left and Ardrossan line to right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8222.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Kilwinnings Ayr platforms. The Ardrossan platforms are beyond the building to the top left. Junction on top right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8224.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Irvine looking south. The 08 was used in local sidings as both the stump of the line to Crosshouse (left and now lifted) and harbour (right) were in use.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8225.jpg "Irvine")
![Irvine looking north in 1987.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8226.jpg "Irvine")
![Prestwick looking to the southbound platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8237.jpg "Prestwick")
![Stranraer bound train approaching Prestwick.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8238.jpg "Prestwick")
![Station buildings at Prestwick looking north. What a station should look like.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8240.jpg "Prestwick")
![Newton level crossing. Here the line from Glasgow crossed over the Ayr Waggonway on the level. The mainline ran from centre distant to underneath and beyond the camera to reach the original Ayr terminus.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8244.jpg "Newton Level Crossing")
![Ayr Harbour Junction looking to Falkland Yard. The bottom to right curve was originally a tramway later taken over by the railway.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8246.jpg "Ayr Harbour Junction")
![Ayr Harbour Junction looking into a blinding sunset. The layout has been altered since then - the line most to the right being lifted and junction made behind the camera.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8247.jpg "Ayr Harbour Junction")
![Looking south over Falkland Yard in 1987. In addition to the normal coal traffic the yard was being used to store redundant DMUs following the electrification of the line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8261.jpg "Falkland Junction")
![Elderslie looking north, taken from the stump of the old station overbridge. The canal line came in from the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8268.jpg "Elderslie")
![To the west of the former Elderlie station the former trackbed of the Kilmacolm line can be seen branching off northwards to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/10000/10202.jpg "Elderslie")
![Stranraer-London train passing the St Marnock groundframe and approaching Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8511.jpg "St Marnocks GF")
![From left to right; distllery headshunt, line from Barrhead, stub of line from Dalry, Long Lyes Sidings.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8512.jpg "Kilmarnock Junction")
![Looking to Kilmarnock along the course of the closed GPK&AR.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8513.jpg "Kilmarnock Junction")
![Looking to Crosshouse. Somewhat shoogly track ...<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8516.jpg "Kilmarnock Junction")
![Crosshouse Junction looking to Kilmarnock. After closure the Kilmarnock bound track remained in place for some time. In fact by this date, 1988, the track still reached the junction point in the distance.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8518.jpg "Crosshouse")
![Crosshouse looking to Dalry. There were two platforms on the Irvine route (left) and two on the Dalry route (right).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8519.jpg "Crosshouse")
![Dalry platforms at Crosshouse looking to Kilmarnock. The Irvine platforms were to the right and goods yard to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8520.jpg "Crosshouse")
![Irvine platforms at Crosshouse looking to Kilmarnock. The Dalry platforms were to the left and to the left of them the was the goods yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8521.jpg "Crosshouse")
![Crosshouse Junction looking to the former station. Directly behind the camera was a buffer stop.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8522.jpg "Crosshouse")
![Crosshouse Junction looking to Kilmarnock. Directly behind the camera was a buffer stop. By this date the line was unfenced.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8523.jpg "Crosshouse")
![Kilmarnock; front to back; distillery line (out of sight), Barrhead line, Dalry line stub, Long Lyes Sidings, Workshops.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8524.jpg "Kilmarnock Junction")
![The shape of things to come; Sprinter on inaugural run. The platforms were awash with photographers. It came from the south and took the Troon line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8525.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Kay Park Junction looking to Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8526.jpg "Kay Park Junction")
![The viaduct to the south of Kilmarnock station (distant).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8527.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Approaching Kay Park Junction from the south is a 47 hauled Carlisle-Glasgow train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8528.jpg "Kay Park Junction")
![47 hauled Carlisle bound train at Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8529.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The driver of a pair of 20s surrenders the token from Annbank on arrival at Mauchline.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/10000/10572.jpg "Mauchline")
![A pair of 20s draw into Mauchline. Line to Ayr on the left, line to Kilmarnock on the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/10000/10574.jpg "Mauchline")
![A pair of 20s leave Mauchline for the south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/10000/10576.jpg "Mauchline")
![The lever frame in Mauchline box with the junction beyond.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/10000/10577.jpg "Mauchline")
![Looking west over what was Barleith station and Hurlford shed in 1988. Not much remained, although the warehousing was rail served.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/34000/34696.jpg "Barleith")
![View looking east from Barleith (behind camera) in 1988. In this direction, the view is little altered since closure [see image 34527].<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/34000/34697.jpg "Barleith")
![Hurlford signal box (left) looking south in 1988. The Barleith Sidings (Johnny Walker) were laid on the site of the line to Newmilns, Darvel and Hurlford Shed. This box is where the trades unionist Jimmy Knapp started his career.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/54000/54126.jpg "Hurlford")
![Start of the Johnnie Walker sidings at Hurlford in 1988. These sidings occupied the site of Hurlford Shed and the Barleith Mineral Sidings.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/54000/54156.jpg "Hurlford")
![Looking south to Kilmarnock station. The two lines closest to the camera are those serving the (in 2009) closing J. Walker blending and bottling plant in Kilmarnock. The two lines run behind the camera to a reversing spur. To the right is the line from Glasgow via Barrhead, the former line from Glasgow via Dalry and CCE sidings known as <i>the Long Lyes</i>. The red brick building, distant centre, is the power signalbox with the line to Barassie behind it. To the distant left is Kilmarnock station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /01/1988]](/images/26000/26615.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Kilmarnock looking to Dalry. The buffer of the line to the left remained in place until recently. These lines were lifted and converted into a footpath. The near portion is now in the process of being relaid as a rounding loop for coal trains.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /01/1988]](/images/26000/26643.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Brochure covering Kilmarnock Open Day on 11 September 1988 - part two. [The steam 4-6-0 was a Black 5. There was also a piece in the brochure about wonderful modern trains about to come into service called... Class 156s! Some 27 years on and they're still here...]<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/09/1988]](/images/51000/51611.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Brochure covering Kilmarnock Open Day on 11 September 1988 - part one. [See image 51611 for part two]. <br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/09/1988]](/images/51000/51612.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![37170 shunting in the up sidings at Mauchline in November 1988.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/11/1988]](/images/8000/8800.jpg "Mauchline")
![47 takes the centre road at Kilmarnock. Most Sunday mornings saw maintenance to the WCML between Carstairs and Gretna and services were diverted via the G&SW.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16134.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Auchinleck Yard looking a little worse for wear. View looks to Glasgow. Semaphore signals long gone.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16150.jpg "Auchinleck")
![Pacers awaiting attention and 20s in Hunslet Barclays yard in Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16151.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The original GPK&AR station building in Kilmarnock. Now demolished.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16330.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The disused Kilmarnock platforms (looking to Kilmarnock) on the alignment opened by the GPKAR on regauging the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway. The original KTR alignment had almost no curve and was to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/20000/20474.jpg "Barassie")
![The now demolished station building in the V of the junction at Barassie. View looks north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/20000/20488.jpg "Barassie")
![Back in 1989 Auchinleck still retained its signalbox (switched out and windows boarded), goods yard (track in place) and station building. This view looks towards Kilmarnock. The closed branch to the Highhouse Colliery was to the left and behind the camera the former Muirkirk line struck off to the east. The Auchinleck signalbox here was opened in December of 1957 replacing Auchinleck (Station) signalbox at the Kilmarnock end of the station and Gilmilnscroft signalbox at the junction end of the station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/28000/28094.jpg "Auchinleck")
![Kilmarnock Goods Yard in 1989. Today this is the site of the Hunslet Barclay works (now owned by Brush and renamed Brush Barclay). The yard was given over to trains needing attention at the nearby works - on this occaision a number of 'Pacers'. What I think are two of Barclay's fleet of 20s can be seen in the distance. The view looks north-west and the station is on the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/28000/28176.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![View across the running lines to Hurlford signalbox in 1989.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1989]](/images/51000/51389.jpg "Hurlford")
![The station building, looking under siege, at Auchinleck station in 1989. This building was demolished not long afterwards.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/53000/53630.jpg "Auchinleck")
![A Glasgow Central - Carlisle DMU arrives at Kilmarnock in April 1989.<br><br>[Colin Miller /04/1989]](/images/31000/31773.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The viaduct carrying the L&A route from Kilbirnie Junction to Kilwinning East (closed 1953) over the closed GPK&A route from Dalry to Kilmarnock (closed 1973) just to the north east of Kilwinning. View south east in 1996. Redstone Siding was behind the camera.<br>
<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/52000/52333.jpg "Redstone Siding")
![46229 at Kilmarnock with Glasgow train.<br><br>[John Robin 06/07/1996]](/images/7000/7172.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking south through the site of the old station at Troon in 1997. [See image 42538]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/52000/52096.jpg "Troon (Old)")
![View south at Dalry Junction from the site of Dalry No 3 box, south of Dalry station. There was a short lived Dalry Junction station here (1850 to 1860). The Kilmarnock and Ayr routes separated here and ran a short distance south before diverging. This was on the quadruple section to Kilwinning which started at Brownhill Junction (or, arguably, St Enochs). The box also served a number of colliery branches.<br>
<br>
Donald Hillier comments 'The 4 track section from Brownhill used to go as far as Kilwinning around WW2 then reduced to 2 tracks as far as Dalgarven, then it was (at that time) the Up Goods, Up Main and Down Main to/from Kilwinning before finally being reduced to 2 tracks when Dalgarven SB closed 24 Mar 1968.'<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/58000/58114.jpg "Dalry Junction")
![Looking south to Glengarnock station in 1997. The Lanarkshire and Ayrshire crossed over here on its route to Kilbirnie, which also served the Glengarnock Iron and Steel Works. By this date, the embankments on both sides had been largely eradicated although some hedge lines gave away where they had run. The siding to the right ran ahead to the goods yard, iron and steelworks. By 1997 it served a shed in the goods yard and ran for a very short length toward the former works having been cut back a few years before.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/61000/61238.jpg "Glengarnock")
![156 502 waits at Kilmarnock on 1 June 1997 with the 1535 service to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[David Panton 01/06/1997]](/images/18000/18170.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Pre-electronic era departure board standing at Kilmarnock station in July 1997.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1997]](/images/18000/18180.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![318 256 bound for Glasgow calls at Prestwick Airport in July 1997. <br><br>[David Panton /07/1997]](/images/19000/19354.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![156 512 stands at bay platform 2 at Kilmarnock with a Burns Line service for Girvan in July 1997. Happily the roof has since been reglazed with proper glass extending the whole length and the the ironwork has been repainted, making things looks a great deal smarter.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1997]](/images/28000/28608.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![View from the now-demolished building on the rarely used platform 4 at Kilmarnock on 4 July 1997.<br><br>[David Panton 04/07/1997]](/images/18000/18210.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The mobile crane at Irvine Harbour alongside track remaining from the Irvine Harbour branch of the GPK&AR. View east towards Irvine in 1998. In the left background is the clipper ship the <i>Carrick</i> (originally <i>City of Adelaide</i>) now relocated to Port Adelaide, Australia.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/52000/52309.jpg "Irvine Harbour")
![A Glasgow Central service stops at Prestwick Town in October 1998 formed by 318 260.<br><br>[David Panton /10/1998]](/images/19000/19350.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![A southbound service passing Swinlees Junction in 1999. The line to the left runs to the Roche Works near Dalry. By the junction is a remaining part of the considerable portion of line which was quadrupled.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1999]](/images/59000/59416.jpg "Swinlees Junction")
![1999 view of the line approaching the Roche Works, Dalry, from Swinlees Junction (some way behind the camera). A distant shunter can (just no more) be seen to the right of the approaching track.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1999]](/images/59000/59433.jpg "Roche Works")
![A view of the impressive arch of the Ballochmyle Viaduct. This was taken on the west side looking north in 2002.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2002]](/images/61000/61304.jpg "Ballochmyle Viaduct")
![A southbound Sprinter passes over the Ballochmyle Viaduct in 2002. This is the view from the east side.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2002]](/images/61000/61331.jpg "Ballochmyle Viaduct")
![The seasale transshipment point in Ayr Harbour. Coal from here is exported to Northern Ireland. This location was originally served by the Ayr Waggonway which ran east from here to serve mines east of the town.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/02/2002]](/images/53000/53157.jpg "Ayr Harbour")
![66205 (TO) at Kay Park Junction south of Kilmarnock with a loaded MGR<br>
from Knockshinnoch-Falkland Yard.<br><br>[Colin Howat 01/11/2004]](/images/55000/55248.jpg "Kay Park Junction")
![Looking to Kilmarnock along the course of the closed GPK&AR.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2005]](/images/8000/8514.jpg "Kilmarnock Junction")
![From left to right; distllery headshunt, line from Barrhead, [and then in the trees] stub of line from Dalry, Long Lyes Sidings.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2005]](/images/8000/8515.jpg "Kilmarnock Junction")
![Looking to Crosshouse. The somewhat shoogly track has gone. But for some reason the buffer stop remains. The route is now a walkway.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2005]](/images/8000/8517.jpg "Kilmarnock Junction")
![Auchinleck looking west to the station from the former junction for Muirkirk. There was originally an engine shed in the v of the junction. The bridge over the road has been altered since closure of the Muirkirk line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/02/2005]](/images/10000/10174.jpg "Auchinleck")
![PW train heads south at Auchinleck. Viewed from the trackbed of the former Muirkirk line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/02/2005]](/images/10000/10177.jpg "Auchinleck")
![The station building and tower at Kilmarnock. The station was rebuilt some time after the line was extended south to Carlisle.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/04/2005]](/images/2000/2671.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A Voyager sits in Kilmarnock station awaiting departure for Glasgow.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/04/2005]](/images/2000/2672.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking Southwest towards Milliken Park, this shows Johnstone on a typically foggy winters morning.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 07/01/2006]](/images/10000/10222.jpg "Johnstone")
![A Class 334 Juniper departs Johnstone for Ayr.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 12/03/2006]](/images/10000/10133.jpg "Johnstone")
![A train of loaded coal hoppers southbound through Auchinleck station on a chilly 13 March 2006. The train is double headed by a pair of EWS class 66 locomotives, with 66177 nearest the camera.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/03/2006]](/images/6000/6994.jpg "Auchinleck")
![A Glasgow Central service arrives at Auchinleck station in March 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/03/2006]](/images/7000/7005.jpg "Auchinleck")
![The abandoned and overgrown through platform on the north side of Kilmarnock station. 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2006]](/images/6000/6990.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Arrival from Stranraer Harbour at Kilmarnock on 27 March 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2006]](/images/6000/6991.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A Glasgow - Carlisle service arrives at Kilmarnock platform 3 on 27 March 2006. Recently arrived in bay platform 2 is the 11.48 from Stranraer Harbour, which will depart as the 1350 to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2006]](/images/6000/6992.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The classic lines of Kilmarnock station looking south in March 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2006]](/images/6000/6995.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![North facing bay platforms 1 and 2 at Kilmarnock. March 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2006]](/images/7000/7001.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Passing a famous name. The 11.48 from Stranraer Harbour comes off the Troon line and into the platform 2 bay at Kilmarnock in March 2006. This train continues as the 13.50 Kilmarnock - Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2006]](/images/7000/7007.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A train leaving Kilmarnock for Carlisle in March 2006, photographed looking over the abandoned bay platform at the south end of the station, with the old West Kirk standing on Portland Street in the left background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2006]](/images/7000/7008.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A train for Glasgow Central waits in the bay at Kilmarnock station on 27 March 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2006]](/images/7000/7018.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The main building and tower at Kilmarnock in March 2006. The platforms can just be seen to the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2006]](/images/7000/7019.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A Class 318 about to pass through Lochwinnoch Station with a fast train to Glasgow.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 14/06/2006]](/images/10000/10127.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![Looking up to the main line from the Fly-under at Elderslie, this shows a Southbound modernised Class 318 .<br><br>[Graham Morgan 26/06/2006]](/images/10000/10128.jpg "Elderslie Fly-under")
![Looking east towards Paisley, this shows the fly-under as it is now. The bridge is still in place, but the this part of the track bed is now the site of a re-cycling plant and haulage yard.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 26/06/2006]](/images/10000/10207.jpg "Elderslie Fly-Under")
![This view looks north at the point where the fly-under went under the main line and headed towards Cart Junction. The track bed here is now part of the cycle network.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 26/06/2006]](/images/10000/10208.jpg "Elderslie")
![Taken from a Glasgow train, this shows the former Elderslie goods yard. WH Malcolm now owns the site as its freight terminal, and is currently expanding and improving the site.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/08/2006]](/images/10000/10223.jpg "Elderslie")
![Looking South East, loaded coal hoppers from Hunterston trundle over the bridge at Elderslie Fly Under behind an EWS Class 66 going in the direction of Glasgow<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/08/2006]](/images/10000/10371.jpg "Elderslie")
![Work continuing on WH Malcolms Elderslie Freight Terminal. The whole area is being concreted and extra lines added so that longer freight trains can use the site<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/08/2006]](/images/10000/10488.jpg "Elderslie")
![Work continuing on WH Malcolms Elderslie Goods Yard. Extra lines are being added so that longer freight trains can use the site and an extra loop added to give better access to the main line. Here new sleepers wait to be put to use.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/08/2006]](/images/10000/10489.jpg "Elderslie")
![Loaded flatcars at WH Malcolms Elderslie Freight Tertminal. Note the gate in the new fence put in place by WH Malcom to help make site more secure.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/08/2006]](/images/10000/10490.jpg "Elderslie")
![Stranraer bound class 156 units race through Johnstone station<br><br>[Graham Morgan 26/08/2006]](/images/10000/10895.jpg "Johnstone")
![DRS Class 66 66403 at WH Malcolms Elderslie Freight Terminal offloading freight<br><br>[Graham Morgan 06/09/2006]](/images/10000/10763.jpg "Elderslie")
![DRS Class 66 66403 at WH Malcolms Elderslie Freight Terminal offloading freight. The freight trains are now using the new concreted part of the terminal.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 06/09/2006]](/images/10000/10764.jpg "Elderslie")
![DRS Class 66 66403 at WH Malcolms Elderslie Freight Terminal offloading freight. Here a mobile crane lifts an ISO box from a flat car for transfer to an articulated lorry.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 06/09/2006]](/images/10000/10765.jpg "Elderslie")
![EWS Class 66 66019 with a loaded coal train from Hunterston passes DRS Class 66 66403 which is offloading freight at WH Malcolms Freight Terminal.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 06/09/2006]](/images/10000/10766.jpg "Elderslie")
![Class 318 318265 passes WH Malcolms Freight Terminal at Elderslie<br><br>[Graham Morgan 06/09/2006]](/images/10000/10767.jpg "Elderslie")
![Looking east from Johnstone station, this shows the exact location where the Johnstone Curve from Cart Junction (next to the yellow triangle on the pylon) met the main line to Ayrshire. The remains of the some of the trackbed also still exist<br><br>[Graham Morgan 12/09/2006]](/images/10000/10904.jpg "Johnstone")
![A class 318 Glasgow bound train enters Johnstone Station<br><br>[Graham Morgan 12/09/2006]](/images/10000/10905.jpg "Johnstone")
![A class 318 Glasgow bound train departs from Johnstone Station<br><br>[Graham Morgan 12/09/2006]](/images/10000/10906.jpg "Johnstone")
![334001 departing Johnstone for Largs.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 21/09/2006]](/images/11000/11030.jpg "Johnstone")
![66081 of EWS races through Johnstone with empty coal hoppers heading for Hunterston.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 21/09/2006]](/images/11000/11032.jpg "Johnstone")
![66099 passing through Johnstone Station with a loaded coal train heading for Longannet PS<br><br>[Graham Morgan 30/09/2006]](/images/11000/11278.jpg "Johnstone")
![Container train at the W H Malcolm depot, Elderslie. October 2006.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /10/2006]](/images/11000/11495.jpg "Elderslie")
![334014 at Johnstone on a service to Glasgow Central<br><br>[Graham Morgan 03/10/2006]](/images/11000/11381.jpg "Johnstone")
![66115 about to pass through Johnstone heading for Hunterston with empty coal hoppers<br><br>[Graham Morgan 03/10/2006]](/images/11000/11494.jpg "Johnstone")
![Southbound Ayr service takes the line to Troon (New). Straight ahead is orignal route and in the left foreground is the re-alignment of the original Kilmarnock and Troon Railway.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/10/2006]](/images/11000/11571.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![Beyond the DRS locomotive works for the expansion of the WH Malcolm depot can be seen.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/10/2006]](/images/11000/11444.jpg "Elderslie")
![334009 at Johnstone station with a train bound for Largs<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/10/2006]](/images/11000/11492.jpg "Johnstone")
![334030 pulling into Johnstone with a Glasgow bound service<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/10/2006]](/images/11000/11705.jpg "Johnstone")
![DRS Class 66 66410 at Elderslie collecting freight at WH Malcolms freight terminal for movement to Grangemouth.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/10/2006]](/images/10000/10454.jpg "Elderslie")
![Collecting freight at WH Malcolms freight terminal at Elderslie for movement to Grangemouth. Here a 40 foot ISO box is being lowered onto a freight flatcar.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/10/2006]](/images/10000/10456.jpg "Elderslie")
![DRS Class 66 66410 collecting freight at WH Malcolms freight terminal at Elderslie for movement to Grangemouth. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/10/2006]](/images/10000/10458.jpg "Elderslie")
![66244 passing a Class 318 unit waiting at Johnstone in the gathering gloom heading for Longannet with loaded coal hoppers <br><br>[Graham Morgan 01/11/2006]](/images/12000/12007.jpg "Johnstone")
![66217 heading for Hunterston with coal empties<br><br>[Graham Morgan 01/11/2006]](/images/12000/12024.jpg "Johnstone")
![66211 about to pass through Johnstone station at a crawl, heading east with coal for Longanett PS. The Class 318 is a Largs service.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 06/12/2006]](/images/12000/12622.jpg "Johnstone")
![Johnstone station, very early morning<br><br>[Graham Morgan 23/12/2006]](/images/12000/12804.jpg "Johnstone")
![334020 and 334034 departing Johnstone for Glasgow Central<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/01/2007]](/images/13000/13038.jpg "Johnstone")
![66033 passing through Johnstone with coal for Longannet. The next stop from here is the loop at Elderslie to let passenger trains pass by<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/01/2007]](/images/13000/13040.jpg "Johnstone")
![318267 & 318264 pulling into Johnstone with an Ayr service<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/01/2007]](/images/13000/13041.jpg "Johnstone")
![318258 heading up the hill on the approach to Johnstone station<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/01/2007]](/images/13000/13043.jpg "Johnstone")
![66242 heading down the hill bound for Hunterston passes 66033 as it comes up the hill towards Johnstone with coal for Longannet<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/01/2007]](/images/13000/13051.jpg "Johnstone")
![66242 with coal empties for Hunterston passing through Johnston station.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/01/2007]](/images/13000/13054.jpg "Johnstone")
![318258 heading away from Johnstone station uphill towards Elderslie<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/01/2007]](/images/13000/13057.jpg "Johnstone")
![66198 at the head of a Longannet bound coal train heads towards the loop at Elderslie.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 10/01/2007]](/images/13000/13113.jpg "Johnstone")
![Network Rail NMT 950001 passing through Johnstone heading east.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 18/01/2007]](/images/13000/13649.jpg "Johnstone")
![A snowy Johnstone station.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 18/01/2007]](/images/13000/13663.jpg "Johnstone")
![Hunterston bound 66084 passing through Johnstone Station.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 18/01/2007]](/images/13000/13666.jpg "Johnstone")
![334002 pulling into Johnstone station.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 18/01/2007]](/images/13000/13669.jpg "Johnstone")
![A very smoky 66143 passing through Johnstone with loaded coal hoppers.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 24/01/2007]](/images/13000/13767.jpg "Johnstone")
![66209 passing through Johnstone en route for Hunterston.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 24/01/2007]](/images/13000/13768.jpg "Johnstone")
![66212 at Johnstone en route for Hunterston with coal empties.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 17/02/2007]](/images/13000/13983.jpg "Johnstone")
![66020 racing through Johnstone station with coal empties heading for Hunterston.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 27/02/2007]](/images/13000/13992.jpg "Johnstone")
![156450 racing through Johnstone with the early morning Stranraer service.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 03/03/2007]](/images/14000/14110.jpg "Johnstone")
![New toilets at Johnstone station, March 2007.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 07/03/2007]](/images/13000/13988.jpg "Johnstone")
![318258 calling at Lochwinnoch with a Glasgow bound train.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 20/03/2007]](/images/14000/14142.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![318266 racing through Lochwinnoch with an express service bound for Ayr.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 20/03/2007]](/images/14000/14143.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![Notice at Exit/Entrance to fuel Discharge Siding. <br><br>[Colin Harkins 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14193.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![The fuel discharge siding alongside the Glasgow bound line just to the north of Prestwick Airport station, photographed in March 2007.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14194.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![Some drainage work in the depot and some little buildings have appeared.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/03/2007]](/images/14000/14249.jpg "Elderslie")
![<i>W. H. Malcolm</i> Elderslie Depot, new buildings in place. Here at the east end of the depot another entrance/exit is to be provided to improve access.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 12/04/2007]](/images/14000/14585.jpg "Elderslie")
![<i>W. H. Malcolm</i> Elderslie Depot, containers stacked and ready for transit.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 12/04/2007]](/images/14000/14586.jpg "Elderslie")
![66016 running light at Johnstone, heading in the direction of Miliken Park.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 17/04/2007]](/images/14000/14619.jpg "Johnstone")
![66216 and loaded coal wagons with a service bound for Longannet<br><br>[Graham Morgan 17/04/2007]](/images/14000/14621.jpg "Johnstone")
![Network Rail NMT 901002 Iris 2 heading south in the direction of Miliken Park.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 17/04/2007]](/images/14000/14623.jpg "Johnstone")
![Network Rail NMT 901002 Iris 2 about to pass through Johnstone station.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 17/04/2007]](/images/14000/14624.jpg "Johnstone")
![The remains of the Johnstone No.1 signal box just east of Johnstone station. This would have controlled access to the Johnstone Curve at Johnstone Junction amongst other things.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 17/04/2007]](/images/14000/14639.jpg "Johnstone")
![318263 coming up the hill towards Johnstone from the direction of Miliken Park with a Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 17/04/2007]](/images/14000/14640.jpg "Johnstone")
![Inspection taking place on a junction box at Johnstone<br><br>[Graham Morgan 25/04/2007]](/images/14000/14902.jpg "Johnstone")
![66236 thundering through Johnstone station with coal empties for Hunterston<br><br>[Graham Morgan 25/04/2007]](/images/14000/14909.jpg "Johnstone")
![Approach to Kilwinning from the south on 3 May. Largs platforms to left and those to Ayr and Stranraer on the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/14000/14832.jpg "Kilwinning")
![<i>'Come and see my new golf bats...' </i>Keen amateur golfers arriving off a train from the north unload their equipment under the canopy at a bright and sunny Prestwick Town on the afternoon of 3 May and look forward to a long weekend on the links.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/14000/14878.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![Entrance to Prestwick Town station, May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/14000/14879.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![Looking across the line to the southbound platform at Irvine with the glass canopy continued from the main entrance and covered stairway.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/15000/15118.jpg "Irvine")
![Looking west towards Irvine station in May 2007 showing the attractive and effective atrium / stairway / canopy arrangement constructed around the station building.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/15000/15119.jpg "Irvine")
![SPT liveried ScotRail services formed by 318252 and 334036 pass at Prestwick Town on 3 May 2007 with north and southbound trains running between Glasgow Central and Ayr.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/15000/15120.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![The impressive building at Prestwick Town in May 2007 looking west from the station approach.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/15000/15163.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![Kilwinning - station frontage from the west side footbridge. May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/15000/15198.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Glasgow bound train runs into Prestwick Town - May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/15000/15280.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![An Ayr - Glasgow train pulls out of Prestwick Town as a southbound train approaches the station in May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/15000/15620.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![Driver of 66410 finds a use for his jacket as a sun screen. WH Malcolm, Elderslie<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/05/2007]](/images/15000/15008.jpg "Elderslie")
![Container loader hard at work at the WH Malcolm Elderslie depot<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/05/2007]](/images/15000/15009.jpg "Elderslie")
![Fly Under at Elderslie West Junction where the track headed for Cart Junction<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/05/2007]](/images/15000/15010.jpg "Elderslie West Junction")
![Mile post or sign post marker at the fly under at Elderslie West Junction<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/05/2007]](/images/15000/15014.jpg "Elderslie West junction")
![Construction work continuing at the WH Malcolm Elderslie depot, here a water tanker is at work keeping the dust down<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/05/2007]](/images/15000/15015.jpg "Elderslie")
![Looking to Elderslie East Junction, the trackbed now part of the cycle path network<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/05/2007]](/images/15000/15016.jpg "Elderslie")
![66080 approaches Elderslie East Junction with an empty coal train heading for Hunterston<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/05/2007]](/images/15000/15021.jpg "Elderslie")
![66410 at WH Malcolm, Elderslie to collect freight<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/05/2007]](/images/15000/15023.jpg "Elderslie")
![66410 at WH Malcolm in Elderslie to collect freight for transit to Grangemouth<br><br>[Graham Morgan 04/05/2007]](/images/15000/15025.jpg "Elderslie")
![Looking north from the Largs side at Kilwinning station on 3 May as a train from Glasgow Central approaches the Ayr platforms. <br><br>[John Furnevel 3/05/2007]](/images/14000/14890.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Located in deepest golfing country - the northbound platform at Prestwick Town in May 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 3/05/2007]](/images/14000/14918.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![View north over Prestwick Airport station showing the Rail/Air link bridge across the A79.<br><br>[John Furnevel 3/05/2007]](/images/14000/14959.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![The 11.42 Glasgow Central - Stranraer Harbour service heads south through Barassie on 3 May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 3/05/2007]](/images/15000/15081.jpg "Barassie")
![A Glasgow Central - Stranraer Harbour service takes a right at Barassie Jct after passing through the station in May 2007. The single line from Kilmarnock comes in on the left of the train while straight ahead lies a long reversing spur.<br><br>[John Furnevel 3/05/2007]](/images/15000/15162.jpg "Barassie")
![A southbound service draws to a stop at Dalry in June 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15079.jpg "Dalry")
![A Sunday morning PW train heads towards Glasgow after passing through Milliken Park station on 17 June 2007. EWS 66016 brings up the rear of the train. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15493.jpg "Milliken Park")
![The station building at Johnstone, Renfrewshire, on a Sunday morning in June 2007. View is north east towards Paisley and Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15623.jpg "Johnstone")
![View south west over Glengarnock station towards Dalry on 17 June 2007. Originally opened as Glengarnock and Kilbirnie in 1840, it became plain Glengarnock in 1905. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15655.jpg "Glengarnock")
![View west over Milliken Park station, Renfrewshire, on 17 June 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15755.jpg "Milliken Park")
![The basic facilities at Howwood on 17 June 2007. The station opened in March 2001 and is located south west of the original station which had been closed in 1955.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/16000/16115.jpg "Howwood")
![View south from the A760 road bridge at Lochwinnoch on 17 June 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/16000/16129.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![The classic 1840 station building at Johnstone, photographed on 17 June 2007 from the station car park looking east towards Glasgow. [See image 15623] <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/48000/48807.jpg "Johnstone")
![66066 passing through Johnstone en route for Longannet with a full load of coal.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16384.jpg "Johnstone")
![334005 about to pull into Johnstone with a service for Glasgow Central<br><br>[Graham Morgan 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16389.jpg "Johnstone")
![66164 passing through Johnstone heading west in the direction of Hunterston for more coal<br><br>[Graham Morgan 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16391.jpg "Johnstone")
![66066 passing through Johnstone heading east with loaded coal hoppers, some of which are the Scottish blue banded ones<br><br>[Graham Morgan 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16404.jpg "Johnstone")
![318257 pulling into Johnstone with an Ayr service<br><br>[Graham Morgan 03/09/2007]](/images/16000/16773.jpg "Johnstone")
![66120 about to pass through Johnstone with an empty coal train bound for Hunterston.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 03/09/2007]](/images/16000/16875.jpg "Johnstone")
![66149 at Johnstone with loaded coal bound for Longannet PS<br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/09/2007]](/images/16000/16775.jpg "Johnstone")
![66168 passing through Johnstone heading for Hunterston <br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/09/2007]](/images/16000/16776.jpg "Johnstone")
![66221 passing through Johnstone with Irvine to Bescot empty china clay tanks<br><br>[Graham Morgan 18/10/2007]](/images/17000/17000.jpg "Johnstone")
![60029 <I>Clitheroe Castle</I> passing through Johnstone with fuel tanks from Prestwick to Grangemouth<br><br>[Graham Morgan 18/10/2007]](/images/17000/17001.jpg "Johnstone")
![A 6-car class 318 on a Glasgow Central service arrives at Johnston station on 10 November.<br><br>[David Panton 10/11/2007]](/images/17000/17138.jpg "Johnstone")
![A 6-car 334 service for Ayr stands at Johnstone on 10 November 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 10/11/2007]](/images/18000/18072.jpg "Johnstone")
![Freightliner Heavy Haul 66583 thunders through Johnstone on 27 February as it heads for Hunterston with an empty coal train.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 27/02/2008]](/images/18000/18130.jpg "Johnstone")
![Northern pacer 142014, photographed approaching Johnstone on 27 February, on its way to Glasgow Works for overhaul. The 142 units use the G&SW route as they are banned from using part of the West Coast Main Line<br><br>[Graham Morgan 27/02/2008]](/images/18000/18134.jpg "Johnstone")
![318265 & 318266 departing Johnstone with the 1445 service to Ayr on 27 February.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 27/02/2008]](/images/18000/18138.jpg "Johnstone")
![EWS 66068 passing south through Johnstone with empty coal hoppers for Hunterston on 27 February. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 27/02/2008]](/images/18000/18140.jpg "Johnstone")
![334028 passing the mile post marker showing 10 miles from Glasgow as it approaches Johnstone station on 5th March<br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/03/2008]](/images/18000/18222.jpg "Johnstone")
![After passing through Johnstone a loaded coal train snakes into the distance hauled by 66192 as it slows to enter the loop at Elderslie to let the next passenger train by.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/03/2008]](/images/18000/18223.jpg "Johnstone")
![66098 and 334032 passing at Johnstone on 5th March<br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/03/2008]](/images/18000/18225.jpg "Johnstone")
![66098 heading southwest down the hill after passing through Johnstone station bound for Hunterston with an empty coal train<br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/03/2008]](/images/18000/18228.jpg "Johnstone")
![The car park at Johnstone station on 5th March. This is a typical weekday where there are too many cars and not enough spaces, as shown by the three cars parked next to the closest lamp post which have yellow stickers on them. This was the location of Johnstone shed and goods depot. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/03/2008]](/images/18000/18391.jpg "Johnstone")
![47848 passing through Johnstone station with a Royal Mail Class 325 in tow whilst on a driver training run from Ayr to Shieldmuir<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/03/2008]](/images/18000/18355.jpg "Johnstone")
![47848 producing lots of smoke as it reaches the top of the hill on the approach to Johnstone station, heading east. This was a GBRf driver training run from Shieldmuir to Ayr and back with a Royal Mail EMU attached <br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/03/2008]](/images/18000/18356.jpg "Johnstone")
![Rear of 325006 as it passes through Johnstone behind 47848 during a driver training run from Shieldmuir to Ayr and back on 16th March 2008.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/03/2008]](/images/18000/18360.jpg "Johnstone")
![334004 at the head of a two unit set with a service for Ayr approaching Milliken Park station<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2008]](/images/18000/18923.jpg "Milliken Park")
![334014 passing the WH Malcolm freight yard as it heads east through the site of Elderslie station on 14th May 2008.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 14/05/2008]](/images/19000/19150.jpg "Elderslie")
![66561 thunders through Johnstone station as it heads for Hunterston from Holgate with empty coal hoppers<br><br>[Graham Morgan 19/05/2008]](/images/19000/19107.jpg "Johnstone")
![31602 passing through Johnstone heading east with a Network Rail coach and 31601 in tow on 19th May<br><br>[Graham Morgan 19/05/2008]](/images/19000/19109.jpg "Johnstone")
![31601 at the rear of 31602 and a Network Rail coach passing through Johnstone heading east on 19th May<br><br>[Graham Morgan 19/05/2008]](/images/19000/19111.jpg "Johnstone")
![334030 and 334040 pass each other at Johnstone station on 19th May<br><br>[Graham Morgan 19/05/2008]](/images/19000/19220.jpg "Johnstone")
![Network Rail track inspection team at Elderslie on 20th May. The entrance to the Elderslie Loop can be seen on the left and this also give access to the WH Malcolm goods yard. Elderlie station was at the point approximately half way along the loop.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19113.jpg "Elderslie")
![334030 just to the west of the Elderslie loop and WH Malcolm depot with a service for Ayr on 20th May<br><br>[Graham Morgan 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19114.jpg "Elderslie")
![334006 passing by the junction of the southern part of the Johnstone Curve that connected the GPK&A Railway at Johnstone to the Bridge of Weir Railway at Cart Junction. The curve was originally built to allow trains to travel directly from Greenock to Ayrshire, that service ended in 1900. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 20/05/2008]](/images/19000/19222.jpg "Elderslie")
![66415 at the Elderslie Loop having just been given signals to join the main line after loading up with containers at WH Malcolm on a container service to Newbiggin, Cumbria, on 16th July.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/07/2008]](/images/19000/19873.jpg "Elderslie")
![156505 on the 1437 Stranraer to Glasgow Central service at Elderslie on 16th July<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/07/2008]](/images/19000/19874.jpg "Elderslie")
![Looking west towards Elderslie West Junction where the line to Kilmacolm branched off to the right at the trees<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/07/2008]](/images/19000/19878.jpg "Elderslie")
![At Elderslie West Junction looking west where the line went downhill and under the main line at the fly under so trains to Kilmacolm wouldnt foul the main line.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/07/2008]](/images/19000/19879.jpg "Elderslie")
![66605 with a train of empty coal hoppers from Leeds bound for Hunterston on 16th July<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/07/2008]](/images/20000/20237.jpg "Elderslie")
![Trespasser on the line! A young fox taking a short cut at Elderslie in July 2008. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 18/07/2008]](/images/21000/21019.jpg "Elderslie")
![EWS 66034 stands in Falkland yard with a train of coal hoppers on 4 August 2008.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 04/08/2008]](/images/24000/24967.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![334 012 with a Glasgow Central - Largs service calls at Milliken Park on 20 August.<br><br>[David Panton 20/08/2008]](/images/20000/20349.jpg "Milliken Park")
![55022 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I> with the throttle open wide at Elderslie during the SRPS <I>Routes & Branches</I> tour on 24 August 2008.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 24/08/2008]](/images/20000/20405.jpg "Elderslie")
![40145 <I>East Lancashire Railway</I> bringing up the rear of the SRPS <I>Routes & Branches</I> tour passing Elderslie on 24th August as it heads south<br><br>[Graham Morgan 24/08/2008]](/images/20000/20411.jpg "Elderslie")
![66008 passing through Johnstone with a coal service from Hunterston to Longannet<br><br>[Graham Morgan 29/08/2008]](/images/21000/21018.jpg "Johnstone")
![Network Rail stoneblower DR80303 at Johnstone station heading west on 5th September 2008<br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/09/2008]](/images/20000/20621.jpg "Johnstone")
![West Coast Railways 47804 at Johnstone station heading to Falkland Yard on 5th September 2008 with empty SRPS coaches for use on the Ayr to Mallaig excursion the following day<br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/09/2008]](/images/20000/20623.jpg "Johnstone")
![West Coast Railway 37248 at Johnstone station heading to Falkland Yard on 5th September 2008 on the rear of empty SRPS coaches for use on the Ayr to Mallaig excursion the following day. Up front is 47804.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/09/2008]](/images/20000/20626.jpg "Johnstone")
![First Engineering Tamper DR 73914 <I>Robert McAlpine</I> passing west through Johnstone station on 5th September 2008<br><br>[Graham Morgan 05/09/2008]](/images/20000/20628.jpg "Johnstone")
![318 270 with the 1611 to Largs at Glengarnock on 15 October 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 15/10/2008]](/images/21000/21093.jpg "Glengarnock")
![A 6-car 318 set pulls into Barassie on 12 November with a Glasgow Central - Ayr service.<br><br>[David Panton 12/11/2008]](/images/21000/21442.jpg "Barassie")
![Opened in September 1994 as <I>Prestwick International Airport</I> the station nameboards nowadays show <I>Glasgow Prestwick Airport</I>, although no reference to an official change of name can be traced (so far) through the usual sources. This is coincidentally the only Scottish station operated by a local authority (South Ayrshire). Photographed on 12 November 2008. [Editors note: According to AA Route Planner, the distance between the Airport and Glasgow City Centre is 32 miles] <br><br>[David Panton 12/11/2008]](/images/21000/21551.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![318 255 pulls into Irvine station on 10 December 2008 with a Glasgow Central - Ayr service.<br><br>[David Panton 10/12/2008]](/images/21000/21744.jpg "Irvine")
![Looking south west over Johnstone station from the Thorn Brae road bridge on 8th February <br><br>[Graham Morgan 08/02/2009]](/images/22000/22431.jpg "Johnstone")
![A Glasgow Central to Largs semi-fast service, formed by unit 303 024, calls at Dalry on 26 February 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22699.jpg "Dalry")
![156 495 pulls into a rainswept Auchinleck with a Carlisle to Glasgow service on 26 Feb 2009<br><br>[David Panton 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22716.jpg "Auchinleck")
![156 430 leaves Auchinleck for Carlisle on 26 February.<br><br>[David Panton 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22746.jpg "Auchinleck")
![Looking south at Prestwick Town on 26 February 2009. Few minor stations still retain original (or at least old) buildings on both sides.<br><br>[David Panton 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22930.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![View north at Prestwick International Airport station, or <I>Glasgow Prestwick Airport</I> as the station signage would have it, photographed on 26 February 2009. Coming under the control of the South Ayrshire local authority, this is one of only two stations in Scotland not managed directly by either First ScotRail or Network Rail (the other being the National Express managed Dunbar station). <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22942.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![Main Road in Elderslie looking west in March 2009. On the right stand the bricked up remains of the entrance to Elderslie station, which was closed in 1966. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 03/03/2009]](/images/22000/22980.jpg "Elderslie")
![A view with all the existing lines visible. The two remaining sidings in the Long Lyes are visible, as vegetation clearance extended right along to the connection with the Troon line, which can just about be seen glinting in the distance.<br><br>[Robert Blane 06/03/2009]](/images/25000/25776.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Taken from the footpath which runs along the north side of the railway, looking south-west. The 0758 Hrs Sprinter (156513?) has just departed Kilmarnock for Glasgow Central. Johnnie Walker siding headshunt in the foreground (reopening unlikely with Diageo pulling Johnnie Walkers out of Kilmarnock). Kilmarnock No 1 signalbox was on the bank just about where the front end of the sprinter is passing (steps down the banking from the footpath are still there, but well buried in the brambles!).<br><br>[Robert Blane 06/03/2009]](/images/25000/25783.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Know anybody who wants to acquire a couple of old railway engineers' wagons? These two have been sitting in Kilmarnock Long Lyes for at least 25 years (!) and have only been recently uncovered by the guys with the chain saws. Now that work is underway on the new run-round loop nearby these two relics won't last much longer, nor will those two remaining sidings. Buildings in the background are built on the site of Kilmarnock works; the wall behind the wagons was once the boundary of same.<br><br>[Robert Blane 06/03/2009]](/images/25000/25790.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking west to the Western Road bridges; Dalry line Bridge 102 on the left, behind the bank, Barrhead line Bridge 108 to the right. Both bridges date from the 1930s, when the Western Road was widened with the intention of forming an early bypass; a scheme that failed miserably.<br><br>[Robert Blane 06/03/2009]](/images/25000/25794.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking east over the old Dalry line, Kilmarnock station is behind the trees above the end of metal fence on the right. The up line remains still in situ (was used for a number of years after the line closed for testing track maintenance equipment - siding extended almost to Knockentiber). The bank in the middle distance hides the Barrhead line, but the buffers on the Johnnie Walker siding headshunt can be seen. <br><br>[Robert Blane 06/03/2009]](/images/25000/25826.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking west towards Johnstone past the remains of Elderslie station, some 43 years after closure in 1966.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 24/03/2009]](/images/22000/22983.jpg "Elderslie")
![A panoramic view of the former dive under at Elderslie West Junction in March 2009. This is where trains heading towards Cart Junction arriving down the hill to the right turned under the main line on the left.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 24/03/2009]](/images/22000/22985.jpg "Elderslie")
![View East towards Elderslie East Junction where the Paisley Canal line diverged from the main line. It was at this location that Elderslie No 1 SB stood. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 24/03/2009]](/images/22000/22988.jpg "Elderslie")
![43062 <I>John Armitt</I> at the head of the Network Rail Test Train at Elderslie on 24th March<br><br>[Graham Morgan 24/03/2009]](/images/23000/23032.jpg "Elderslie")
![37601 and 37609 awaiting signals at Elderslie Loop on 24th March with the nuclear flask train from Hunterston to Carlisle<br><br>[Graham Morgan 24/03/2009]](/images/23000/23268.jpg "Elderslie")
![334 017 heads a 6-car train for Glasgow at Lochwinnoch on 1 April 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 01/04/2009]](/images/23000/23118.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![47804 passing Johnstone with <I>The Scottish Chieftain</I> railtour on 12th April on its leg from Paisley to Stranraer<br><br>[Graham Morgan 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23270.jpg "Johnstone")
![The <I>Scottish Chieftain</I> rail tour passing through Johnstone on 12th April on its leg from Paisley to Stranraer with 37676 <I>Loch Rannoch</I> bringing up the rear.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23272.jpg "Johnstone")
![Planes, Trains and Automobiles......<br>
View North of Prestwick International Airport station (where the station nameboards read <I>Glasgow Prestwick Airport</I>) with an approaching 334 on the left and a Ryanair Jet passing overhead.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 18/04/2009]](/images/23000/23346.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![334 011 makes the hourly stop at Howwood on the Ardrossan Town to Glasgow service on 29 April and picks up the passenger.<br><br>[David Panton 29/04/2009]](/images/23000/23480.jpg "Howwood")
![Platform gathering in the sunshine at Auchinleck on 12 May 2009 to mark the 25th anniversary (along with Kilmaurs) of the station's reopening [see News item]. The planters have been supplied by the National Autistic Society's Daldorch House School and will be tended by Auchinleck Community Council.<br><br>[Neil McGhee 12/05/2009]](/images/23000/23657.jpg "Auchinleck")
![66525 running by the WH Malcolm yard at Elderslie with coal empties bound for Greenhill<br><br>[Graham Morgan 13/05/2009]](/images/23000/23848.jpg "Elderslie")
![A rain soaked Falkland Junction on Saturday 18 July 2009, as the 0823 ex-Glasgow Central <I>Golflink</I> special passes on its way to Girvan. The trains link up with a shuttle bus service running between Girvan station and the 138th Open at Turnberry. The specials are being operated using class 156 DMUs, temporarily redeployed from the Edinburgh - Shotts - Glasgow route, where 158s are standing in. [See image 24634]<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 18/07/2009]](/images/24000/24635.jpg "Falkland Junction")
![156 449 pulls out of platform 3 at Kilmarnock with a Carlisle service on 2 September 2009, carrying far fewer passengers than when it arrived.<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2009]](/images/25000/25292.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A 6-car 334 service for Glasgow Central calls at Glengarnock on 2 Sepember 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2009]](/images/25000/25313.jpg "Glengarnock")
![Kilmarnock station has always had, for me, a slightly melancholy air as if we were still in the immediate post-Beeching era and the service was almost skeleton [see image 22787]. Things are a little less quiet now and will become even less so come December when the service to Glasgow will double to half-hourly. The roundels in the canopy brackets contain the letters 'G&SWR Co' but are so ornate you can be forgiven if this is not immediately obvious - it wasn't to me until reviewing this picture and I've visited the station over many years. On 2 September 156 494 waits at Platform 2 with a train on the generally lightly-used <I>Burns Line</I> with a service for Girvan. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2009]](/images/25000/25331.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![EWS 66092 shunts coal empties in Falkland Yard on 2 September 2009<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2009]](/images/25000/25346.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![View north east from Ayr Harbour Junction on 2 September 2009. The line on the left runs to Falkland Junction, to the right is the line for Newton Junction with Newton-on-Ayr station located behind the EWS waggons in the background.<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2009]](/images/25000/25351.jpg "Ayr Harbour Junction")
![156 499 calls at Kilmarnock platform 4 on a service to Carlisle on 2 September 2009. Platform 3 is normally used by trains in both directions unless services are crossing or close to crossing, as in this case.<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2009]](/images/25000/25372.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Platform scene at Glengarnock on 2 September, with 318 260 pulling in for Ayr while a 334 pulls out for Glasgow Central.<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2009]](/images/25000/25374.jpg "Glengarnock")
![After crossing the River Kilmarnock Water viaduct 156 512 pulls into Kilmarnock on 2 September 2009 forming a Carlisle - Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2009]](/images/25000/25433.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Work in progress to extend the loop at Elderslie, with new catenary masts appearing. This is being done as part of the enhancements between Shields and Paisley to provide extra capacity, as the up loop at Arkleston will be incorporated into the upgraded route. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/09/2009]](/images/25000/25519.jpg "Elderslie")
![Work in progress to extend the loop at Elderslie, with new catenary masts appearing. This is being done as part of the enhancements between Shields and Paisley to provide extra capacity, as the up loop at Arkleston will be incorporated into the upgraded route. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/09/2009]](/images/25000/25527.jpg "Elderslie")
![66182 at Elderslie en route to Hunterston with empty coal wagons on 16th September<br><br>[Graham Morgan 16/09/2009]](/images/25000/25523.jpg "Elderslie")
![The 1043 Ayr - Glasgow Central arriving at Prestwick Town on 21 September 2009.<br><br>[Colin Miller 21/09/2009]](/images/25000/25531.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![66714 (GB) 'Cromer Lifeboat' at Lochgreen south of Troon heading 4N50 1150 Lynemouth-New Cumnock empty MGR. GBRF have recently won contract for this flow. Trains started on 11th August and the contract is expected to run for eight weeks. Portland Golf course to the right of train, Royal Troon behind camera position.<br><br>[Colin Howat 25/09/2009]](/images/25000/25800.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![View looking west at Elderslie showing progress on the improved loops at Elderslie. The canal line formerly led off to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/09/2009]](/images/25000/25611.jpg "Elderslie")
![334040 at the head of a service to Glasgow Central drawing away from Johnstone on 7th October 2009<br><br>[Graham Morgan 07/10/2009]](/images/25000/25880.jpg "Johnstone")
![Work now in progress on old Dalry Down line in preparation for run-round loop? (For a comparison with an earlier shot at the start of works [see image 25776]).<br><br>[Robert Blane 08/10/2009]](/images/25000/25780.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking in the Dalry (West) direction from the Western Road bridge, toward the wibbly-wobbly way that is the cycle path to Irvine. Note that 'gardening' has occurred this side of the bridge as well, but why is a mystery because there is a high paling fence below the brdge which presumable defines the end of BR land. Perhaps plans are afoot to reopen to Dalry or Irvine (we wish!).<br><br>[Robert Blane 08/10/2009]](/images/25000/25793.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking East straight down the Barrhead line to Kilmarnock station in (unfortunately) bright morning sunshine after rain, from the Western Road bridge. Johnnie Walker siding headshunt to left, old Dalry line and Long Lyes to right, and advance of the machines in the distance.<br><br>[Robert Blane 08/10/2009]](/images/25000/25815.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking East straight down the Barrhead line to Kilmarnock station in (unfortunately) bright morning sunshine after rain, from the Western Road bridge. Johnnie Walker siding headshunt to left, old Dalry line and Long Lyes to right, and advance of the machines in the distance.<br>
The station tower can be seen in the distance as can and contractors' machinery.<br><br>[Robert Blane 08/10/2009]](/images/25000/25828.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking East towards Kilmarnock station from the cycle path on the old Dalry line. The new buffers will be roughly at the end of the fence line, whilst the path is about to be slewed to make way for the sidings. The old buffers which survived the line's closure and subsequent conversion to a cycle path (they were at the bottom of the ramp down from the road) have been removed, which is a shame as they were a good reminder of the path's former use.<br><br>[Robert Blane 31/10/2009]](/images/26000/26108.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking East over the old Dalry line towards Kilmarnock long Lyes (right) and the advancing ballast for the run-round loop (top right).<br><br>[Robert Blane 31/10/2009]](/images/26000/26113.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking West on the old Dalry line from the Western Road bridge in Kilmarnock, with preparations well advanced for the new run-round loop. Could the wall that has been unearthed be the platform mentioned by Hugh Delahunt? [Hugh could you send another message - we had no luck with your email address.] If memory serves, this is nothing more than a retaining wall adjacent to what was the old Dalry line Up loop.<br><br>[Robert Blane 31/10/2009]](/images/26000/26116.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking back towards Kilmarnock station from the bottom of the cycle path ramp down on to the old Dalry line, Western Road bridge in background and old platform/retaining wall to left. The Up loop passed through the left hand opening below the bridge.<br><br>[Robert Blane 31/10/2009]](/images/26000/26120.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Work taking place at Elderslie on 15th November to upgrade track and extend the loop line. The new gantry incorporating signalling for the revised layout is now operational.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 15/11/2009]](/images/26000/26343.jpg "Elderslie")
![66047 at Elderslie East Junction waiting to proceed with a ballast train to the works site at Elderslie on 15th November where track upgrade and renewal work is taking place.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 15/11/2009]](/images/26000/26352.jpg "Elderslie")
![Ballast train alongside the WHM freight depot at Elderslie during track replacement and upgrading work on 15 November. New track to the right is already in place and awaiting the attention of the tamper. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 15/11/2009]](/images/26000/26370.jpg "Elderslie")
![Crane and next track panel taking a breather before continuing to the other side of the Western Road bridge. View looks towards Kilmarnock station.<br><br>[Robert Blane 08/12/2009]](/images/26000/26720.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking west from the Western Road bridge (No 102) toward Crosshouse Junction. Track being laid out to the new buffer position.<br><br>[Robert Blane 08/12/2009]](/images/26000/26721.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking back towards Kilmarnock Station from the Western Road bridge. This view shows the alterations to the track layout by the junction and CCE sidings.<br><br>[Robert Blane 08/12/2009]](/images/26000/26724.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking back towards Kilmarnock Station from the Western Road bridge. Track panels being 'recycled' here appear to have been lifted from a curve somewhere!<br><br>[Robert Blane 08/12/2009]](/images/26000/26725.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Part of the group of special guests and well-wishers at Kilmarnock station on 14 December 2009 to mark the introduction of a half-hourly service to Glasgow Central. <br><br>[Colin Martin 14/12/2009]](/images/6000/6365.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![First Scotrail unit 156431 about to leave Kilmarnock for Glasgow on the morning of 14 December 2009 marking the introduction of the new half-hourly service. <br><br>[Colin Martin 14/12/2009]](/images/16000/16623.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Old Dalry line out beyond Kilmarnock Long Lyes looking East towards the station (Long Lyes were beyond the bridge on the far side of the tracks). Road/rail machine is at the new buffer stops.<br><br>[Robert Blane 20/12/2009]](/images/26000/26880.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A snowy view of the new run-round loop on the old Dalry line, looking west from Bridge 102, with the track gang applying the finishing touches to the buffer stop at the end of the line. <br>
<br>
<br><br>[Robert Blane 20/12/2009]](/images/26000/26886.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![318270 at Johnstone on a bitterly cold morning on 28th December 2009. The unit had rolled to a halt after an almighty bang and what looked like an explosion from under the pantograph, which I can only assume was caused by severe arcing. Out came a rather worried driver thinking he had lost all power, but 5 minutes later things were back to normal and the train was on it's way with a service to Ayr. The gentlemen on the right are about to take the train south for a day on the golf course. Rather them than me!<br><br>[Graham Morgan 28/12/2009]](/images/27000/27372.jpg "Johnstone")
![318259 (GW) north of Kilwinning with the 0945 Glasgow Central - Largs.<br><br>[Colin Howat 28/12/2009]](/images/55000/55380.jpg "Kilwinning")
![318253/256 (Both GW) north of Kilwinning<br>
with the 1013 Ayr-Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[Colin Howat 28/12/2009]](/images/55000/55386.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Not quite a Class 66 with a full load of coal hoppers, but the best available on the day! Road-rail backhoe and wagon (or is it a trailer?) heading back from the buffer-stops to load more ballast on 4 January. The buffers visible in the background are at the end of the long disused Johnnie Walker sidings headshunt, and are on the north side of the Barrhead line. Kilmarnock No 1 signalbox used to sit on top of the bank between the Barrhead and Dalry lines more or less above the backhoe's cab. <br><br>[Robert Blane 04/01/2010]](/images/27000/27050.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking East to Kilmarnock Station on 4 January with the remodelled Long Lyes almost complete. From lower left, tracks in view are Main line to Barrhead; Johnnie Walker siding headshunt (disused for many years); loop to Platform 4; through line (rarely used); loop to Platform 3: behind fence, lines to bay platforms 1 & 2; Troon line behind security fence around signal box (ground signal for engineers' sidings just visible); loop line to new run-round loop, including only remnant of the Long Lyes, which may or may not be removed (the two remaining sidings here have been almost completely removed). <br><br>[Robert Blane 04/01/2010]](/images/27000/27051.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The 14.15 Glasgow Central to Ardrossan (318 266) runs into Lochwinnoch on 12 February 2010.<br><br>[Colin Miller 12/02/2010]](/images/27000/27684.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![66424+66420 passing through Johnstone with the nuclear flask train from Hunterston to Carlisle on 18 February 2010<br><br>[Graham Morgan 18/02/2010]](/images/28000/28580.jpg "Johnstone")
![Freightliner 66 511 rumbles through Kilmarnock on 17 March 2010<br><br>[David Panton 17/03/2010]](/images/28000/28311.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![<br>
334037 leads a Glasgow Central - Ayr service past 66185 waiting to leave Prestwick fuel depot with the 6N44 empties for Grangemouth on 19 March 2010.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/03/2010]](/images/28000/28169.jpg "Prestwick")
![156 500 calls at what is now widely referred to as 'Glasgow Prestwick Airport' [see image 21551] with a Kilmarnock - Ayr service on 19 March 2010.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/03/2010]](/images/28000/28258.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![Freightliner 66953 crosses into Falkland Yard, Ayr, with empties on 19 March, probably destined for Chalmerston.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/03/2010]](/images/28000/28272.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![Trackbed of the line to the original Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway terminus at North Quay, Ayr, opened on 12 August 1840. Photographed in March 2010. (Information from the article 'Resorts for Railfans' in the January 1961 edition of Trains Illustrated, by G.H. Robin).<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/03/2010]](/images/28000/28299.jpg "Ayr [1st]")
![Massed ranks of redundant HAA coal hoppers at Falkland Yard, Ayr, on 19th March 2010.<br><br>[David Spaven 19/03/2010]](/images/28000/28698.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![A general view from under the canopy at Kilmarnock on 3 June. The <br>
ironwork has recently been repainted in 'Scotland's Railway' colours. Very fresh and smart, but not quite as warm as the previous SPT colour scheme with gold highlighting. The four cars at Platform 1, which have just arrived from Glasgow, are in the process of being split into two with the front set destined for Stranraer after a wait of 15 minutes or so. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 03/06/2010]](/images/29000/29232.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A 6-car 318 arrives at Prestwick Town on 3 June with a service for Ayr.<br><br>[David Panton 03/06/2010]](/images/29000/29272.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![Every one of the canopy supports at Kilmarnock bears a roundel <br>
with a highly ornate 'G&SWRCo' worked into it. Photographed on 3 June 2010.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 03/06/2010]](/images/29000/29285.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DBS 66016 at the front of the Compass Tours <i>Ayrshire Coast Explorer</I> departs from Kilmarnock and takes the single line to Barassie on 3 July 2010 past Kilmarnock SB.<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/07/2010]](/images/29000/29671.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The 15.17 service for Largs runs into Dalry station on 25 July 2010. [See image 21618] for the scene forty seven years earlier.<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/07/2010]](/images/29000/29973.jpg "Dalry")
![A Glasgow - bound EMU arrives at Glengarnock on 25 July 2010 [see image 25334 for the view from the same spot forty seven years earlier].<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/07/2010]](/images/29000/29987.jpg "Glengarnock")
![On 27th July 2010 the 10.30 Glasgow Central - Ayr train runs into Barassie station for its 11.10 scheduled stop. [See image 21465 for the same viewpoint forty seven years earlier]<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/07/2010]](/images/30000/30000.jpg "Barassie")
![The 11.05 Kilmarnock - Girvan passes Barassie on 27 July 2010. [See image 26338 for the same place forty-seven years earlier years earlier]. The later viewpoint from the footbridge is necessary due to the subsequent addition of fencing.<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/07/2010]](/images/30000/30059.jpg "Barassie")
![Freightliner 66506 runs south through Barassie station with coal empties on 27 July 2010.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/07/2010]](/images/30000/30132.jpg "Barassie")
![View south at Barassie on 27 July 2010 as the 11.07 Kilmarnock to Girvan negotiates the junction. Signal box to the left<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 27/07/2010]](/images/30000/30198.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![The 07.30 from Glasgow Central arrives at Ayr on 29 July in persistent drizzle. <br><br>[Colin Miller 29/07/2010]](/images/30000/30302.jpg "Ayr")
![The 09.27 service to Glasgow Central (which starts the day as the 07.09 ex-Stranraer arriving via Ayr and reversing here) waits to leave Kilmarnock [see image 20116].<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/2010]](/images/30000/30172.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Platform extension work taking place at Johnstone to allow seven car trains to be accommodated at the station when the new Class 380 comes into service. This work is being repeated at a number of stations across the Inverclyde and Ayrshire routes where the Class 380 will operate.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 09/08/2010]](/images/30000/30184.jpg "Johnstone")
![A fine late summer day, and the canvassy smell of warm Ayrshire golf <br>
links wafts across Prestwick Town station. The Ayr-bound 6-car 334 has had little chance to build up any speed from its previous stop at Prestwick International Airport station less than half a mile away. Town station is one of the few with platforms long enough to safely accommodate the forthcoming 8-car 380s, so no lengthening work in eviidence here. <br><br>[David Panton 01/09/2010]](/images/30000/30655.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![5690 <I>Leander</I> photographed passing Western Gailes south of Irvine on 6 September with the RTC <I>West Highlander</I> railtour.<br><br>[Ken Browne 06/09/2010]](/images/30000/30602.jpg "Irvine")
![Soon to be a common sight, 380105 at the head of a two unit set at Johnstone on a test run of ScotRail's new Desiro Express trains before entry into service, currently planned for mid November. On the rear is 380107 which made the train too long for the platform as both are four car sets and Johnstone has been extended to take seven car units. When the trains enter service they will run as single units, 3+3 or 3+4 sets.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 27/10/2010]](/images/31000/31258.jpg "Johnstone")
![A Network Rail MPV working a Railhead Treatment Train heading South through Johnstone on 27th October 2010. These trains are kept busy during leaf fall season, and can continue to do so through to mid to late December, depending on weather conditions<br><br>[Graham Morgan 27/10/2010]](/images/31000/31334.jpg "Johnstone")
![156501 forming the 13.12 Glasgow Central - Carlisle service restarts from Kilmarnock on 5 November passing the former south bay platform.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/11/2010]](/images/31000/31376.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Network Rail MPV unit DR98957 arriving at Kilmarnock on 5 November 2010.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/11/2010]](/images/31000/31385.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![156508 calls at Kilmarnock with 09.25 Glasgow Central - Carlisle train on 10 November.<br><br>[Ken Browne 10/11/2010]](/images/31000/31441.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Virgin <I>Thunderbird</I> no 57311 <I>Parker</I> waits for 156 432 to clear the single line section between Kilmaurs and Kilmarnock with the 13.49 to Carlisle from Glasgow Central. 57311 was travelling light engine from Carlisle to Polmadie<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/11/2010]](/images/31000/31557.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![156.511 about to depart with the 10.49am to Carlisle with the 'doomed' Johnnie Walker building in the background.<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/11/2010]](/images/31000/31656.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![156.494 about to depart with the 11.27am to Glasgow Central<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/11/2010]](/images/31000/31663.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A 156 arrives at Kilmarnock on the 10.12 Glasgow Central - Carlisle service in falling snow on 1 December 2010 during what has been an extended period of bad weather causing disruption to road, rail and air services.<br><br>[Ken Browne 01/12/2010]](/images/31000/31727.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The bays at Kilmarnock on 1 December 2010, with 156.434 about to depart with the late running 11.00 service to Girvan alongside the 10.58 to Glasgow Central, which had been cancelled due to the lack of a driver.<br><br>[Ken Browne 01/12/2010]](/images/31000/31730.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![334035 passing through Elderslie on 2nd December slowing as it approaches Johnstone station<br><br>[Graham Morgan 02/12/2010]](/images/31000/31771.jpg "Elderslie")
![156506 running through Elderslie on 2nd December 2010 on a service to Stranraer<br><br>[Graham Morgan 02/12/2010]](/images/31000/31797.jpg "Elderslie")
![334036 passing through Elderslie on 2nd December as it slows on it's approach to Johnstone station<br><br>[Graham Morgan 02/12/2010]](/images/31000/31802.jpg "Elderslie")
![66085 with the Riccarton tank train standing at Kilmarnock station. At this point in time - 14.45 on 7 December - it had been held there for just over 24 hours.<br><br>[Ken Browne 07/12/2010]](/images/31000/31823.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![334025 departs Johnstone at the head of a six-car train on a bitterly cold 7th December 2010, a day when the temperature reached no higher than minus six, resulting in many failures.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 07/12/2010]](/images/31000/31940.jpg "Johnstone")
![156.508 shunting back into platform 2 at Kilmarnock in front of 156.431. About the only movement this morning, 8 December 2010.<br><br>[Ken Browne 08/12/2010]](/images/31000/31831.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![334005 stops at Barassie with the 13.12 to Ayr on 17 December 2010.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/12/2010]](/images/32000/32005.jpg "Barassie")
![156462 passing Barassie with the 12.06 ex Girvan on 17 December 2010. The train is due into Kilmarnock at 13.06.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/12/2010]](/images/32000/32010.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![380001 + 380101 pass through Barassie with a return ECS working to Ayr at 09.43 on 7 January 2011.<br><br>[Ken Browne 07/01/2011]](/images/32000/32214.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![The unique Juniper set with blue ends and roof passes through Barassie at 11.36 on 7 January with the 11.00 from Glasgow Central arriving in Ayr at 11.52.<br><br>[Ken Browne 07/01/2011]](/images/32000/32224.jpg "Barassie")
![Freightliner 70005 passes Barassie with Killoch to Drax loaded FHH at 12.06 on 7 January 2011.<br><br>[Ken Browne 07/01/2011]](/images/32000/32228.jpg "Barassie")
![Plasser & Theurer tamper DR73914 <I>Robert McAlpine</I> runs past Barassie heading for Kilmarnock on 7 January 2011. It had arrived from the Irvine direction and reversed in the holding sidings.<br><br>[Ken Browne 07/01/2011]](/images/32000/32234.jpg "Barassie")
![66238 stands at Riccarton Oil Terminal, Kilmarnock, on 17 January 2011 about to return empties on train 6D61, the 10.22 to Grangemouth.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/01/2011]](/images/32000/32381.jpg "Riccarton Oil Terminal")
![DBS 66041 waits in Killmarnock Long Lyes after running round for a journey to Greenburn from Drax PS on 26 January. The line to the right of the train leads north to Kilmaurs, Stewarton and Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/01/2011]](/images/32000/32498.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![37601 and 37607 with the 1Z94 <I>Galloway Galloper</I> special arriving at Kilmarnock station on 12 February 2011 in fading light. Locomotive 37601 currently carries the name <i>Class 37 - 'Fifty'</i>. <br><br>[Ken Browne 12/02/2011]](/images/32000/32759.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DBS 66119 northbound through Kilmarnock station on 23 February 2011 with the 4S90 Drax - New Cumnock empties heading for Long Lyes.<br><br>[Ken Browne 23/02/2011]](/images/32000/32915.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Freightliner 70004 at Kilmarnock with the 4S75 Stourton-Killoch on 23 February 2011.<br><br>[Ken Browne 23/02/2011]](/images/32000/32925.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![31465 on the rear of a Network Rail test train passing south through Barassie on 23 February 2011.<br><br>[Ken Browne 23/02/2011]](/images/32000/32939.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![Hurlford 'box is basically closed completely, (and boarded up, as can be seen), despite the official party line that it's merely 'switched out' - has been for years anyway, and may now be officially in the ranks of the closed signalboxes on the line. Retention may be due to persistent rumours that W.H. Malcolm, or similar, was going to take over the former Johnnie Walker bonded stores at Barleith.<br><br>[Robert Blane 01/03/2011]](/images/54000/54176.jpg "Hurlford")
![Class 31 no 31106 is about to propel DB999508+DBSO9701 from Kilmarnock towards Greenburn on 4 March 2011 during operations with the 2Q88 Network Rail track measurement train.<br><br>[Ken Browne 04/03/2011]](/images/33000/33073.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Class 31 no 31106 about to propel DB999508+DBSO9701 to Greenburn on 4 March with a Network Rail test train.<br><br>[Ken Browne 04/03/2011]](/images/33000/33081.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Class 156 no 156506 with the 09.18 service to Carlisle about to pass class 31 no 31106 with a track measurement train at Kilmarnock on 4 March 2011.<br><br>[Ken Browne 04/03/2011]](/images/33000/33102.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Polmadie Virgin 'Thunderbird' no 57309 <I>Brains</I> pauses at Kilmarnock on 0Z31 Carlisle to Polmadie driver route training on 17 May. [See image 34121]<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/05/2011]](/images/34000/34133.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Corkerhill set 156445 on the 1443 from Stranraer is seen here arriving a couple of minutes early in bay Platform 1 at its destination, Kilmarnock. It will shortly make another round trip to Stranraer as the 1704 departure and 1933 return. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/05/2011]](/images/34000/34302.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![156476 entering Kilmarnock on 4 June with the 1S50 Newcastle Central - Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[Ken Browne 04/06/2011]](/images/34000/34624.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![FL66508 on 6Z68 Killoch to Cottam loaded hoppers passes Kilmarnock <br><br>[Ken Browne 28/06/2011]](/images/34000/34679.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DBS 66116 leaves Killie long lyes on the 4S03 Milford to New Cumnock empty hoppers <br><br>[Ken Browne 28/06/2011]](/images/34000/34687.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Virgin 'Thunderbird' 57307 <i>Lady Penelope</i> runs through Kilmarnock on 28 June 2011 during a Polmadie to Carlisle driver training run.<br><br>[Ken Browne 28/06/2011]](/images/34000/34691.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![156507 arrives at Kilmarnock with 1A35 the 09.48 from Glasgow Central <br><br>[Ken Browne 28/06/2011]](/images/34000/34698.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A colourful platform display greets passengers at Johnstone on 14 July 2011.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/07/2011]](/images/34000/34872.jpg "Johnstone")
![DBS 67008 with the 6R52 china clay tanks at Kilmarnock on 18 July 2011. This is quite a rare occurrence as the train normally runs via Paisley and Irvine. However on this occasion it was diverted via Barrhead and Kilmarnock and ran round here before running to the Caledonian paper Mill via the Barassie branch. <br><br>[Ken Browne 18/07/2011]](/images/34000/34926.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Nowadays it's not possible to get to the railway side at Mauchline due to obstructions caused by fencing and vegetation. The station house [see image 6966] still stands but is now buried amongst the trees. The old goods shed, the north end of which appears in the same shot, is seen here on 3 August 2011 from the south. The north end now has a two-storey extension forming office premises. The trees beyond conceal the house.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/08/2011]](/images/35000/35114.jpg "Mauchline")
![Class 156, 156501 runs over Kilmarnock Viaduct with 1E96, the 13.49 from Glasgow Central to Newcastle Central service. Photo taken from the rooftop of the adjacent multi-storey car park.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/08/2011]](/images/35000/35297.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DBS 66131 crosses Kilmarnock Viaduct with 4S84 Milford to Greenburn empty hoppers on 17 August. It will shortly run round in the Long Lyes before returning south to reach its destination.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/08/2011]](/images/35000/35353.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A very sprightly 37409 at Johnstone on 23 August hauling debranded 322485 from Wabtec Kilmarnock to Glasgow Works for an overhaul before it heads South to join Northern. [See image 27095]<br><br>[Graham Morgan 23/08/2011]](/images/35000/35380.jpg "Johnstone")
![156442 arrives at Kilmarnock on 24 August with a Newcastle - Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[Ken Browne 24/08/2011]](/images/35000/35505.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![It can be a lonely job at times! Track inspection taking place at Elderslie on 25th August 2011<br><br>[Graham Morgan 25/08/2011]](/images/35000/35578.jpg "Elderslie")
![GBRf 66725 'Sunderland', with the recently introduced 4N83 working from Tyne Dock coal terminal to New Cumnock, passes through Kilmarnock station on 2 September 2011.<br><br>[Ken Browne 02/09/2011]](/images/35000/35490.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![GBRf 66725 'Sunderland' prepares to enter Kilmarnock 'Long Lyes' on 2 September 2011 with the 4N83 Tyne Dock coal terminal - New Cumnock. <br><br>[Ken Browne 02/09/2011]](/images/35000/35499.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DBS 66120 leaves Kilmarnock long lyes on 7 October with 4S62 Milford to New Cumnock empty hoppers.<br><br>[Ken Browne 10/10/2011]](/images/35000/35960.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DBS 66207 carefully negotiates the points at Kilmarnock on 13 October 2011 with the 4S92 Drax to Greenburn empty hoppers.<br><br>[Ken Browne 13/10/2011]](/images/36000/36017.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Eight o'clock on a Saturday morning at Kilmarnock station, with 47580 (plus 57601 on the rear) having recently arrived with a special to pick up passengers. The date is 22 October and the train is the outbound Compass Tours Ayr - York <I>'Settle & Carlisle Express'</I>.<br><br>[Ken Browne 22/10/2011]](/images/36000/36114.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Splash of colour at Prestwick Town - see news item<br><br>[First ScotRail /11/2011]](/images/9000/9909.jpg "Prestwick")
![A colourful welcome to Prestwick Town station - see news item.<br><br>[First ScotRail /11/2011]](/images/10000/10068.jpg "Prestwick")
![EWS 66193 pulls past Kilmarnock platform 3 on 19 December with a rake of empty hoppers bound for Crowbandsgate. Meanwhile, NR Measurement Train 43062 <I>'John Armit'</I> bides its time on the middle road.<br><br>[Colin Martin 19/12/2011]](/images/36000/36872.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![With 37607 leading and 37601 at the tail, the 1Z94 <I>Galloway Galloper</I> awaits right away at Kilmarnock station on 12 February 2011. The special had gone down the Riccarton branch and returned to the station before traversing the Barassie branch to its ultimate destination at Stranraer. No 37601 carries the name 'Class 37 - Fifty'. <br><br>[Ken Browne 12/2/2011]](/images/34000/34724.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The first visit of a class 20 to Kilmarnock on a service train for some time. DRS 20303 operating in tandem with 7Z57 on snow ploughs to Carlisle, shortly after leaving Brodie Engineering, Bonnyton, on 10 January 2012.<br><br>[Ken Browne 10/01/2012]](/images/37000/37530.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Freightliner 66551 on 4S06 York Holgate to Hunterston empty HHAs on 20 January. The train was unusually diverted via the G&SW line rather than the WCML. This necessitated a run round in Barassie reversing spur from which it is seen emerging on the final leg of its journey to Hunterston.<br><br>[Ken Browne 20/01/2012]](/images/37000/37740.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![DRS class 57s 57004+57009 take 7Z57 two snow ploughs out of Brodie Works Kilmarnock en route to Carlisle and ultimately Doncaster<br><br>[Ken Browne 02/02/2012]](/images/37000/37749.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Freightliner Heavy Haul 66544 takes loaded HHAs from Killoch out of Kilmarnock on 2 February 2012. Train 6M32 is destined for Drax Power Station.<br><br>[Ken Browne 02/02/2012]](/images/37000/37772.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Red liveried DBS 66097 with HTA empties southbound for New Cumnock emerging from Kilmarnock Long Lyes on 2 February 2012.<br><br>[Ken Browne 02/02/2012]](/images/37000/37791.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Leaving Kilmarnock Long Lyes on 2 February is DBS 66250 with HTA empties heading south to New Cumnock.<br><br>[Ken Browne 02/02/2012]](/images/37000/37802.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![380001+380102 approaching Barassie on 3 February 2012 with the 16.08 from Glasgow.<br><br>[Ken Browne 03/02/2012]](/images/37000/37712.jpg "Barassie")
![Virgin 'Thunderbird' no 57304 <I>Gordon Tracy</I>, on hire to GBRf to handle the 334020 drag to Brodie Rail Works, Kilmarnock. The locomotive is seen on 3 February 2012 leaving Barassie sidings with a train from the Kilmarnock works consisting of 'translator' vehicles for Glasgow Works and coaches for SRPS Bo'ness.<br><br>[Ken Browne 03/02/2012]](/images/37000/37718.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![Freightliner class 70 Heavy Haul locomotives have reappeared on 'blending coal' runs from Hunterston to Killoch. 70013 handled the morning run on 3 February 2012 and was photographed passing Barassie en route to Killoch. <br><br>[Ken Browne 03/02/2012]](/images/37000/37726.jpg "Barassie")
![Virgin 'Thunderbird' no 57304 <I>Gordon Tracy</I> arrives at Barassie on 3 February 2012. It will run round in the reversing siding before continuing on its journey along the branch to Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ken Browne 03/02/2012]](/images/37000/37755.jpg "Barassie")
![The 10.43 Ayr - Glasgow Central passing the almost deserted Falkland yards on a bright misty morning in March 2012 [see image 8261].<br><br>[Colin Miller 28/03/2012]](/images/38000/38360.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![The only part of Falkland yard in use on 28 March 2012 was this area on the down side. The wagons in the siding appear to be cripples.<br><br>[Colin Miller 28/03/2012]](/images/38000/38409.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![ScotRail's external relations manager John Yellowlees (centre) with Kyle Model Railway Club members (l-r) Roy Garrett, Hugh McCrindle, David Wyllie, Tom Rout, Ed Bristow, and Ian Blain [see news item].<br><br>[First ScotRail 16/04/2012]](/images/12000/12816.jpg "Irvine")
![Roy Garrett and Tom Rout, from Kyle Model Railway Club, with one of<br>
their new layouts at Irvine station. [See news item]<br><br>[First ScotRail 16/04/2012]](/images/29000/29014.jpg "Irvine")
![The inaugural run of Colas Railfreight on the Grangemouth to Prestwick aviation fuel tanks, having taken over the contract from DB Schenker. 66847 eases the train through Barassie at 09.03 on 1st May 2012.<br><br>[Ken Browne 01/05/2012]](/images/38000/38646.jpg "Barassie")
![Scene at Falkland Yard on 12 May 2012 with the 11.13 Ayr - Glasgow Central passing through.<br><br>[Colin Miller 12/05/2012]](/images/38000/38811.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![Falkland Yard deserted no more on 27 May 2012 [see image 38360]. DBS back using the yard - 2 coal trains on the right, 2 engineering trains on the down side, 5 Class 66s present in total. <br><br>[Colin Miller 27/05/2012]](/images/38000/38958.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![Royal locomotive 67006 <i>Royal Sovereign</i> on not-so-Royal duties passing through Johnstone on 31st May 2012 with train load of tanks heading for Dalry. <br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/05/2012]](/images/39000/39250.jpg "Johnstone")
![Compass tours ran the 'Oban & Lorn Highlander' tour from Ayr to Oban and return on 6 June 2012. Here West Coast Rail Co's 37676+37516 power through Barassie station having just left Ayr.<br><br>[Ken Browne 06/06/2012]](/images/39000/39111.jpg "Barassie")
![Freightliner class 70 no 70010 on 4S08, an unusual move from Ferrybridge to New Cumnock, normally a DB Schenker loading point, moves its train out of the long lyes on its way south<br><br>[Ken Browne 13/06/2012]](/images/40000/40625.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A coal train runs north through Kilmarnock station on 28 June 2012.<br><br>[Colin Miller 28/06/2012]](/images/41000/41149.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Evening sunlight catches the piers of the dismantled viaduct on the branch to Ayr South Harbour on 20 July. Some fragments of railway remain on the quayside.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/07/2012]](/images/39000/39645.jpg "Ayr Harbour")
![DRS class 37 no 37682 top and tailed with Network Rail's 97304 on 1Q14 radio test train from Carlisle to Derby RTC via Ayr, seen running through Kilmarnock station on 9 August 2012.<br><br>[Ken Browne 09/08/2012]](/images/40000/40628.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DRS class 66 no 66429 on 4Z28 conflats from Motherwell TMD to Barclay works for overhaul couples up after running around in the station prior to entering the works.<br><br>[Ken Browne 09/08/2012]](/images/40000/40629.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DRS class 37 no 37423 runs into Barassie with 4Z26, a train of flats for repair from Motherwell TMD to Barclay works. It will run round in the sidings for the trip up to Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/09/2012]](/images/40000/40598.jpg "Barassie")
![Super Sprinter no 156513 runs through Barassie with 1K95, a non stop service from Glasgow Central to Stranraer via Kilwinning and Irvine<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/09/2012]](/images/40000/40609.jpg "Barassie")
![Roof repairs in progress at Prestwick Town station on 18 October 2012, with the building on the down platform receiving attention to slating.<br><br>[Colin Miller 18/10/2012]](/images/40000/40711.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![Irvine Station has been named Best Adopted Scottish Station 2012 by<br>
Passenger Focus, the independent watchdog. [See previous news item] The photograph shows (L-R) Tom Rout of Kyle Model Railway Club; ScotRail's external relations manager, John Yellowlees; Robert Samson, passenger manager (Scotland) for Passenger Focus, and Louis Wall of South West Station Gardeners Group. <br><br>[ScotRail 06/11/2012]](/images/40000/40927.jpg "Irvine")
![The 09.30 ex-Glasgow Central arrives at Prestwick Airport on 19 February 2013. View north through a window in the station footbridge.<br><br>[Colin Miller 19/02/2013]](/images/42000/42110.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![66074 with coal bound for Longannet power station on 26 February 2013. The train is about to pass the bridge carrying the B7036 Mauchline to Ochiltree road.<br><br>[John Steven 26/02/2013]](/images/42000/42227.jpg "Mauchline")
![The southern end of the line at Troon [Old] Station on the original line. The station lies behind the camera, is now a private house and a housing estate has been built on the line. Now a head shunt for the lies at Barassie. Hard to believe that not that long ago Standard 2-6-4Ts could be clocked at 80 mph here.<br><br>[Colin Miller /03/2013]](/images/42000/42498.jpg "Troon")
![By March 2013 all the track at Hurlford inside the boundary fence (quite literally) had been lifted although the shunt signal, and the main line ground signals at the crossover just north of the 'box, were still in position, and operational, I assume. Also, by that date, the main line connection had been partially dismantled in what has become normal Network Rail practice these days as far as I can tell, ie the frog removed and replaced with plain rail. In this case, the frog was simply dumped right there.<br><br>[Robert Blane 01/03/2013]](/images/54000/54157.jpg "Hurlford")
![Dundonald Road bridge over the original line, seen from the south in March 2013. Beyond and hidden by fencing and foliage is the original Troon station, built in 1839 and closed in 1892 when the new station on the loop line was opened. The old one became the goods station although the through line was retained for trains avoiding Troon station. No trace remains of the yard - all is now housing.<br><br>[Colin Miller 26/03/2013]](/images/42000/42538.jpg "Troon (Old)")
![The Irvine / Kilmarnock line closed in October 1965 and the track was lifted except for a fan of sidings between the Ayr / Glasgow line and the main road. Several years later the sidings themselves were lifted, but still two colour light signals which had protected the former junction remained. Now almost lost in the trees, here they are on 24 April 2013 - together with a close up.<br><br>[Colin Miller 24/04/2013]](/images/42000/42848.jpg "Irvine")
![Deltic D9000 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I> with the 6Z54 Brodie Works to Glasgow Works EMU drag, seen leaving Barassie sidings with 334025 in tow shortly after running round.<br><br>[Ken Browne 04/05/2013]](/images/42000/42989.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![D9000 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I> approaching Barassie sidings dragging EMU 334025 from Brodie Works, Kilmarnock. After running round in the sidings the train will continue north to Glasgow Works.<br><br>[Ken Browne 04/05/2013]](/images/43000/43000.jpg "Barassie")
![Deltic D9000 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I> leaves Barassie sidings on 4 May 2013 with the Kilmarnock Works to Glasgow Works EMU drag transferring unit 334025.<br><br>[Ken Browne 04/05/2013]](/images/43000/43261.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![DRS 37606 runs through Barassie on 10 May with the 6R46 Grangemouth - Prestwick Airport tanks. (The locomotive was deputising for failed Colas Rail 66847.)<br><br>[Ken Browne 10/05/2013]](/images/43000/43100.jpg "Barassie")
![DRS 57010 leads Colas 56302 on 6K60 Ayr Falkland to Carlisle Yard through Kilmarnock station on 5 June.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/06/2013]](/images/43000/43474.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DRS 37194 with wagons for repair at Wabtec Barclay Works arriving at Kilmarnock on 5 June 2013.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/06/2013]](/images/43000/43497.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Juniper EMU 334003 arrives at Kilmarnock for refurbishment at Brodie Rail Works on 17 June behind D9000 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I>. <br><br>[Ken Browne 17/06/2013]](/images/43000/43449.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Deltic D9000 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I> running round Juniper 334030 at Kilmarnock station on 17 June following the EMU's refurbishment at at the nearby Brodie Rail Works.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/06/2013]](/images/43000/43458.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![An Ayr-bound 380 unit passing the site of Lochgreen Junction at the south end of the Troon Loop on 29 June 2013. Photographed from the track-bed of the original direct line. [See image 28035] <br><br>[Colin Miller 29/06/2013]](/images/43000/43595.jpg "Lochgreen Junction")
![The original Troon station on the direct line closed on 2 May 1892 when the new present day station opened. This is the up building - much altered - from the platform side on 29 June 2013. The goods yard to the left and the line north have long disappeared under what is now 'Old Station Court'. [See image 42538]<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/06/2013]](/images/43000/43622.jpg "Troon (Old)")
![The up side buildings of the original Troon station [see image 43622] in June 2013. <br><br>[Colin Miller 29/06/2013]](/images/43000/43634.jpg "Troon (Old)")
![The 10.23 Ayr - Glasgow Central rolls into Prestwick station on 3 July over the newly installed replacement underbridge at the south end of the station.<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/07/2013]](/images/43000/43648.jpg "Prestwick")
![The new underbridge just south of Prestwick Town station seen from the west on 3 July - as yet unsullied by the attentions of the illiterati driving overheight vehicles. <br><br>[Colin Miller 03/07/2013]](/images/43000/43685.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![The next underbridge south from that on Station Road [see image 43685] is on Grangemuir Road, seen here looking west on 10 July. It has obviously had the misfortune to be hit by over-height vehicles.<br><br>[Colin Miller 10/07/2013]](/images/43000/43732.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![An Ayr to Glasgow Central class 380 service heads north, dead on schedule, shortly after calling at Prestwick Town on 30 July 2013. The graveyard of the 12th Century St Nicholas Church is in the foreground, with Old Prestwick Golf Course on the seaward side of the line. <br><br>[Colin Miller 30/07/2013]](/images/43000/43997.jpg "Prestwick")
![The 9.38 Glasgow Central - Stranraer runs non-stop through Prestwick Town station on 31 July 2013. <br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 31/07/2013]](/images/44000/44077.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![PS <I>Waverley</I> entering the River Ayr on 19 August 2013.<br><br>[Colin Miller 19/08/2013]](/images/44000/44295.jpg "Ayr Harbour")
![Colas Rail freight 56105 on 6N47 empty A1 aviation fuel oil tanks from Prestwick airport to Grangemouth passing through Barassie station on 20 August 2013.<br><br>[Ken Browne 30/08/2013]](/images/44000/44583.jpg "Barassie")
![Some bushes seem to have been chopped since my last visit to the old Troon station, allowing this full length, although not totally unobstructed, view of the up [Glasgow] buildings in October 2013.<br><br>[Colin Miller 10/10/2013]](/images/44000/44920.jpg "Troon")
![Summer lingers late in the planters and hanging baskets maintained by <br>
the Hurlford Gardening Club at Kilmarnock Station, as seen in this view on 16 October.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 16/10/2013]](/images/44000/44991.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The 10.27 service to Glasgow Central stands in the bay at Kilmarnock station on 16 October behind another of the colourful planters maintained by the local Hurlford Gardening Club.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 16/10/2013]](/images/45000/45001.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![View north in December 2013 over the remains of the bridge which carried the branch to Ayr's south harbour. Taken from the terrace of <I>The Waterfront</I> bar/ restaurant which is built across the trackbed. On the far bank, the gap in the wall visible under the radio mast is where the track emerged from the goods yard, now also built over. [See image 36905]<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 10/12/2013]](/images/45000/45697.jpg "Ayr Harbour South")
![Network Rail track recording train headed by DBSO 9703 leads DRS 37603 into Kilmarnock station on 20 January 2014.<br><br>[Ken Browne 20/01/2014]](/images/46000/46139.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DRS 37603 about to take the Network Rail track recording train away from Kilmarnock on 20 January.<br><br>[Ken Browne 20/01/2014]](/images/46000/46177.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Network Rail track recording train headed by DRS 37603 about to depart from Kilmarnock station on 20 January 2014.<br><br>[Ken Browne 20/01/2014]](/images/46000/46194.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DBS 66100 on its way from Mossend to Falkland yard on 23 January to pick up china clay empty tanks. These would formerly have been collected from Caledonian paper Mill and run round in the sidings at Barassie. However, the recent purchase of the sidings by Freightliner has brought this practice to an end.<br><br>[Ken Browne 23/01/2014]](/images/46000/46146.jpg "Barassie")
![Scotrail DMU 156512 on 2A05 Kilmarnock to Girvan passing the abandoned branch platform at Barassie on 23 January 2014. Housing now covers much of the land once occupied by the former Barassie railway wagon works.<br><br>[Ken Browne 23/01/2014]](/images/46000/46166.jpg "Barassie")
![ScotRail EMU 380014 on the 12.14 Glasgow Central to Ayr service passes through Barassie on 23 January 2014.<br><br>[Ken Browne 23/01/2014]](/images/46000/46173.jpg "Barassie")
![Signal box name now restored and in pride of place at entry to the Museum of Ayrshire Life, Dalgarven Mill. The signal box stood between Dalry and Kilwinning and was demolished in 1968. [See image 37547]<br><br>[Colin Miller 05/02/2014]](/images/46000/46203.jpg "Dalgarven Signal Box")
![Platform scene at Kilmarnock Station in spring sunshine on 14 April. The 13.42 ex-Glasgow Central has recently arrived at platform 2. The colourful half-barrels here are lovingly maintained by the Hurlford Gardening Club. <br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/04/2014]](/images/46000/46991.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The Ballochmyle Viaduct civil engineering landmark plaque unveiled by Provost Jim Todd and ICE President Geoff French on 25 April 2014 [see image 59257].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 25/04/2014]](/images/7000/7160.jpg "Ballochmyle Viaduct")
![An all-stations Ayr - Glasgow Central train calls at Lochwinnoch on 14 May 2014.<br><br>[Colin Miller 14/05/2014]](/images/47000/47336.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![The 14.30 Glasgow Central - Ayr dashes through Lochwinnoch at high speed on 14 May. This train's first stop will be at Kilwinning and the end to end journey time is a scheduled 48 minutes.<br><br>[Colin Miller 14/05/2014]](/images/47000/47422.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![The next train from Irvine is for ... er ... North Berwick??<br><br>[John Yellowlees 17/06/2014]](/images/47000/47683.jpg "Irvine")
![PS <I>Waverley</I> warps herself across from the North Harbour to collect her passengers for the last sail of the season from Ayr to Tarbert Loch Fyne.<br><br>[Colin Miller 20/08/2014]](/images/48000/48428.jpg "Ayr Harbour")
![MPV DR98911 awaits the right away at Kilmarnock on 17 September during a test run, as 156439 arrives with a Glasgow Central - Newcastle Central service.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/09/2014]](/images/48000/48943.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Class K4 2-6-0 <I>The Great Marquess</I> takes on water in Falkland Yard, Ayr, on 22 September 2014 during a pause on <I>The West Highlander</I> charter tour.<br><br>[Ken Browne 22/09/2014]](/images/49000/49438.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![A4 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> passing Barassie on 27 September 2014 with <I>The Scottish Lowlander</I> railtour.<br><br>[Ken Browne 27/09/2014]](/images/48000/48891.jpg "Barassie")
![DBS 66130 passes through Glengarnock station on 29 September 2014 with the Mossend (ex Antwerp) china clay tanks to Caledonia Paper, Irvine.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/09/2014]](/images/48000/48855.jpg "Glengarnock")
![380107 passes the remains of Glengarnock yard with the 1131 Glasgow Central - Ayr on 29 September 2014. The loop here has been disconnected.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/09/2014]](/images/48000/48865.jpg "Glengarnock")
![DBS 66130 taking the Kilmarnock line at Barassie on 29 September having run round on the former Troon avoiding line, with the Ayr main line to the right. [See image 48855].<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/09/2014]](/images/48000/48881.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![380012 enters Barassie on 29 September with a Glasgow Central - Ayr stopper.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/09/2014]](/images/48000/48895.jpg "Barassie")
![GBRf class 47 carrying the number D1916 (aka 47812) in two tone green livery passing through Kilmarnock on 12 November working 4Z47 new wagons from Barclay works to Doncaster down decoy (GBRf) sidings.<br><br>[Ken Browne 12/11/2014]](/images/49000/49434.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![D1916 in two tone green livery passing through Kilmarnock station on 12 November 2014. The GBRf class 47 was taking new wagons from Barclay works to Doncaster.<br><br>[Ken Browne 12/11/2014]](/images/49000/49444.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![GBRf 66748 (purchased from Dutch Railways) photographed passing through Kilmarnock with loaded coal hoppers from Hunterston to Drax power station on 4 February 2015.<br><br>[Ken Browne 04/02/2015]](/images/50000/50308.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![GBRf 66745 powers through Kilmarnock station on 5 February 2015 with loaded coal hoppers from Hunterston to Drax power station. This is a new path for GBRf.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/02/2015]](/images/50000/50299.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The 10.12 Glasgow Central to Carlisle calls at Kilmarnock on 11 February 2015. Note that this unit has had the 'First' logos painted over.<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/02/2015]](/images/50000/50338.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The 1430 Glasgow Central to Ayr train hammers through [and I mean hammers through] Lochwinnoch station on 5 March 2015.<br><br>[Colin Miller 05/03/2015]](/images/50000/50559.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![The 6H97 Hunterston - Drax coal runs through Kilmarnock station on 5 March 2015 hauled by GBRf 66745.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/03/2015]](/images/50000/50564.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Freightliner 66529 with the 4S11 Drax - Hunterston empties about to pass through Kilmarnock station on 5 March.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/03/2015]](/images/50000/50574.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DRS 37259 at the head of the Network Rail inspection train pausing at Kilmarnock on its way from Carlisle to Mossend on 9 March 2015. Sister locomotive 37610 is on the rear of the train.<br><br>[Ken Browne 09/03/2015]](/images/50000/50604.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Looking north through Auchinleck station on 26 March 2015. When Auchinleck reopened in 1984, the footbridge came from Crookston, which had closed the previous year. Crookston itself reopened in 1990 but as a single-platform station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 26/03/2015]](/images/50000/50775.jpg "Auchinleck")
![The 10.36 Ayr - Glasgow Central about to pass the site of Monkton Station, just north of Prestwick, on 16 April 2015. Monkton station closed to passengers in 1940.<br><br>[Colin Miller 16/04/2015]](/images/51000/51005.jpg "Monkton")
![The 10.04 Glasgow Central to Ayr passing through the site of Monkton Station on 16 April 2015. The Prestwick Airport fuel discharge siding is on the left. [See image 14194]<br><br>[Colin Miller 16/04/2015]](/images/51000/51019.jpg "Monkton")
![View north over the fuel discharge siding alongside Prestwick Airport station on 16 April 2015.<br><br>[Colin Miller 16/04/2015]](/images/51000/51082.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![GBRf class 66 66735 top and tailed with 66732 heading the Royal Scotsman through Barassie to Ayr in May 2015. This was during the period when the West Coast Railway Co was banned due to a S.P.A.D. incident in the West Country.<br><br>[Ken Browne 03/05/2015]](/images/53000/53646.jpg "Barassie")
![Colourful platform display at Lochwinnoch, photographed on 14 July 2015.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/07/2015]](/images/51000/51963.jpg "Lochwinnoch")
![A picture that speaks volumes about changes from manufacturing to service industries, and about automotive traffic on the railways of Britain and beyond. The faded lettering on the bridge says <I>'TALBOT home of the Avenger and Sunbeam'</I>. The Linwood plant was opened as a Pressed Steel factory and built bodies for Glasgow's Blue Trains; then assembled Hillman Imps [see image 48344] and Hunters; then the Avenger and finally Sunbeam, until 1981. Kwik Fit boasts of its 44 year history on the hoarding on the left; but even the Transit van and pickup under the bridge have history with the railways. These were the last model built at the rail-served factory in Southampton. Transits are now built in Turkey. The previous dual sourcing arrangement led to a strange traffic flow, as each Transit plant only had press tools for one type of door. So Ford company trains took right hand doors from Southampton to Turkey, with a balancing flow of left hand doors from Turkey to Southampton. You couldn't make it up.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 14/07/2015]](/images/52000/52190.jpg "Canal Junction [Elderslie]")
![The 1655 train to Ayr coasts into Johnstone station on 14th July 2015. I wonder if the collective noun for three teenagers is an 'app?'<br><br>[Ken Strachan 14/07/2015]](/images/52000/52974.jpg "Johnstone")
![The 15.03 ex Girvan speeds through Prestwick Town on 17 August. This train runs non-stop from Ayr to Kilwinning and thence stops only at Paisley Gilmour Street prior to reaching Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Colin Miller 17/08/2015]](/images/52000/52294.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![Network Rail NMT rail infrastructure set 43013 TNT 43062 at Kilmarnock on 18 August 2015. The train is the 1Q26 Ayr to Carlisle via the G&SW line, on the first day of resumption of non passenger traffic since the New Cumnock derailment.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/08/2015]](/images/52000/52380.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DRS 57302 <I>Chad Varah</I> on a route trainer from Carlisle to Polmadie, on behalf of Virgin trains, passing through Kilmarnock on 19 August 2015. This was the first day of resumption of non passenger traffic since the recent derailment north of New Cumnock.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/08/2015]](/images/52000/52413.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Kilmarnock Station Railway Heritage Trust - plaque unveiled at Kilmarnock station on 31 August 2015.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 31/08/2015]](/images/52000/52423.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The Kilmarnock Station Community Village leaflet [see image 52423].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 31/08/2015]](/images/52000/52432.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Colas Grid 56078 works 6N47 Prestwick Airport to Grangemouth empty aviation fuel tanks through Barassie station<br><br>[Ken Browne 12/09/2015]](/images/53000/53619.jpg "Barassie")
![MPVs DR98955 and DR98905 on RHTT duties from Girvan to Mossend through Barassie station on 12 September 2015.<br><br>[Ken Browne 12/09/2015]](/images/53000/53623.jpg "Barassie")
![Spraying in action as MPVs DR98955 and DR98905 work 3S90 on RHtt duties from Girvan to Mossend through Barassie station.<br><br>[Ken Browne 12/09/2015]](/images/53000/53628.jpg "Barassie")
![Kilmarnock is one of many stations which have benefitted by having their station buildings brought back into use. Following a major restoration of the 1898 building by the Kilmarnock Station Railway Heritage Trust, it now hosts a cafe, a bookshop and giftshop! In addition, stations are being used as venues for events.<br><br>
<br><br>
Kilmarnock station will play host to a poetry reading for Hallowe'en on Saturday, October the 31st.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 31/10/2015]](/images/53000/53018.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Late floral display, seen under the footbridge at Auchinleck in November 2015 as Sprinter 156509 pulls in. <br><br>[John Yellowlees 18/11/2015]](/images/53000/53312.jpg "Auchinleck")
![The driver of Freightliner 66515 gives a friendly wave as he reverses into the sidings at Barassie Junction on 19 November before running round. Longannet power station is due to close in March 2016, so this traffic will also cease.<br><br>[Ken Browne 19/11/2015]](/images/53000/53634.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![Freightliner class 66 No 66515 heads 6G10, a rare coal move from Killoch direct to Longannet on 19 November. Having run round in the sidings, it will now head to Longannet via Kilwinning.<br><br>[Ken Browne 19/11/2015]](/images/53000/53642.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![GBRf 66725 <I>Sunderland</I> heads the 4S04 Tyne Dock - Hunterston through Kilmarnock on 4 January.<br><br>[Ken Browne 04/01/2016]](/images/53000/53955.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DRS 37609+37607 working the diverted 6M22 south through Barassie from Hunterston LL to Sellafield on 7 January 2016. This train normally runs via Kilwinning<br><br>[Ken Browne 07/01/2016]](/images/53000/53944.jpg "Barassie")
![DBS 66089 forms the diverted 0R79 Mossend - Falkland through Barassie on 7 January. <br><br>[Ken Browne 07/01/2016]](/images/53000/53948.jpg "Barassie")
![The diverted Caledonian Sleeper heads south through Kilmarnock on 10 January 2016 hauled by GBRf class 47s 47843+47848. The 47s will be replaced by a single class 90 electric locomotive at Carlisle.<br><br>[Ken Browne 10/01/2016]](/images/53000/53919.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![DBS 66084 heads the diverted 6Z56 Carlisle - Mossend engineers consist through Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ken Browne 16/01/2016]](/images/53000/53956.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Freightliner 66517 heads the diverted 4L89 Coatbridge - Felixstowe containers through Kilmarnock station on 16 January 2016. This service is normally routed via Kilwinning.<br><br>[Ken Browne 16/01/2016]](/images/53000/53959.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![ScotRail Sprinters 156457+156513 working 2A22 the last train of the day to Dumfries on 16 January 2016, seen here about to leave Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ken Browne 16/01/2016]](/images/53000/53964.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The 1522 Glasgow Central-Carlisle shuttle Voyager calls at Kilmarnock on 21 January 2016.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 21/01/2016]](/images/54000/54020.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Name board from Dalgarven Signal Box (1889-1968) preserved by Dalgarven Mill after being rescued from the river where it was dumped in the rubble following a fire. This box, between Dalry Junction and Kilwinning, was to the north of the River Garnock Viaduct.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/01/2016]](/images/54000/54001.jpg "Dalgarven Signal Box")
![Daffodils at Kilmarnock, it must be springtime.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 05/02/2016]](/images/54000/54113.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Colas 60056 enters Dalry with the diverted Dalston - Grangemouth empties. The goods yard was located on the right.<br><br>[Bill Roberton
09/02/2016]](/images/54000/54185.jpg "Dalry")
![380 106 nears Dalry with a southbound service. Evidence of much lost trackage.<br><br>[Bill Roberton
09/02/2016]](/images/54000/54189.jpg "Dalry")
![380 106 approaches Gailes level crossing, south of Irvine, with an Ayr-Glasgow Central service. Gailes Station was situated to the rear of the train and closed on 2 January 1967.<br><br>[Bill Roberton
09/02/2016]](/images/54000/54216.jpg "Gailes")
![DRS no 57307 drags Pendolino 390006 through Kilmarnock on a very wet and cold Sunday 21 February 2016<br><br>[Ken Browne 21/02/2016]](/images/54000/54369.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![<I>Great British Flowers?</I> Coal wagons and Daffodils seen at Kilmarnock in February 2016. <br><br>[John Yellowlees 23/02/2016]](/images/54000/54392.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![GBRf class 73 EDs 73969+73968 working 5Z15, the <I>Royal Scotsman</I> ECS, from Carnforth to Kilmarnock Brodie works to pick up two refurbished coaches on 10 March 2016. This may have been the first visit by the refurbished class 73s to Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ken Browne 10/03/2016]](/images/55000/55508.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![73969 showing off the Caledonian Sleeper logo during shunting moves at Kilmarnock<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/03/2016]](/images/55000/55610.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![73969 exits Brodie yard with two refurbished coaches for attachment to the consist in the long lyes.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/03/2016]](/images/55000/55626.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![73969 reverses with two refurbished coaches for attachment to the consist in the long lyes.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/03/2016]](/images/56000/56086.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![It would have been easier going across here before the girders were removed in 1978. Fish were taken from the fishing fleet and fuel oil for them delivered. The Ayr resident steamer would also be supplied here.<br><br>
Taken 20-3-16 at exceptionally low tide.<br><br>[Colin Miller 20/03/2016]](/images/54000/54658.jpg "Ayr Harbour South")
!['Storm in a tea cup' - superb name for the cafe at Kilmarnock station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 20/04/2016]](/images/55000/55018.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![66733 top n tail with 66746 arrive at Kilmarnock with 1H87, the GBRf operated Royal Scotsman from Bridge of Orchy for overnight stabling.<br><br>[Ken Browne 24/04/2016]](/images/55000/55602.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![66746 leads 66733 into platform 4 at Kilmarnock with the Royal Scotsman from Bridge of Orchy for overnight stabling. The loco had just been released into<br>
traffic following a full repaint into Belmond British Pullman house colours.<br><br>[Ken Browne 24/04/2016]](/images/55000/55703.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![66733 stabled in platform 4 at Kilmarnock with the Royal Scotsman from Bridge of Orchy. <br><br>[Ken Browne 24/04/2016]](/images/55000/55758.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![66746 stabled with 66733 and stock in platform 4 at Kilmarnock with the Royal Scotsman from Bridge of Orchy. <br><br>[Ken Browne 24/04/2016]](/images/56000/56306.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Colas Railfreight class 60 no. 60026 approaches Prestwick, after run round in Ayr station, with loaded aviation fuel tanks bound for BP Prestwick air terminal.<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/04/2016]](/images/55000/55741.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![GBRf 66732 working 4S27 Tyne Dock coal terminal to Greenburn Keir Mining south through Kilmarnock, having run round in the long lyes. It will repeat this move when returning fully loaded as 6E95 to Drax Power Station.<br><br>[Ken Browne 06/06/2016]](/images/55000/55579.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![GBRf 66732 working 6E95 Greenburn Keir Mining to Drax north through Kilmarnock station for run round in the long lyes. <br><br>[Ken Browne 06/06/2016]](/images/55000/55584.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![GBRf 66732 working 6E95 Greenburn Keir Mining to Drax south through Kilmarnock station heading for Drax.<br><br>[Ken Browne 06/06/2016]](/images/55000/55590.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![GBRf 66732 working 6E95 Greenburn Keir Mining to Drax south through Kilmarnock station heading for Drax. The driver is a friend of the photographer!<br><br>[Ken Browne 06/06/2016]](/images/55000/55594.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Left for Glasgow, right for Ayr - the ubiquitous 380s.<br><br>[Colin Miller 23/06/2016]](/images/57000/57732.jpg "Prestwick Town")
![Northbound Freightliner 66509 heading to the south (via Shields Junction) through Irvine working 6E06 Killoch to York Yard South on 15 August - an unusual working for Freightliner, who hadn't worked from Killoch for almost 2 years.<br><br>[Ken Browne 15/08/2016]](/images/56000/56478.jpg "Irvine")
![View from Western Road bridge, Kilmarnock as Colas 60021 starts up with 6D61 Riccarton to Grangemouth empty tanks on 31 august 2016.<br><br>[Ken Browne 31/08/2016]](/images/56000/56485.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Colas Rail 60021 working 6D61 empty tanks south from Riccarton to Grangemouth. Taken from Western Road Bridge, Kilmarnock, on 31 August 2016.<br><br>[Ken Browne 31/08/2016]](/images/56000/56492.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![66712 comes round the curve from Kilmarnock at Barassie Junction with 4S05, a North Blyth to Killoch service.<br><br>[Ken Browne 23/09/2016]](/images/56000/56723.jpg "Barassie")
![37610 on 0z89, the Barclay yard to Motherwell.<br><br>[Ken Browne 23/09/2016]](/images/57000/57164.jpg "Barassie Junction")
![PIK has more fantouche departure screens than the standard, probably because it's not owned by a railway company. Photographed 1 October.<br><br>[David Panton 01/10/2016]](/images/56000/56732.jpg "Prestwick International Airport")
![Some fine imitation British Railways era platform enamels at Kilmarnock seen on 15/10/2016. They are in fact in the wrong colour, being Eastern Region dark blue instead of Scottish light blue, but only a carping pedant of the worst sort would point out that out.<br><br>[David Panton 15/10/2016]](/images/56000/56860.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The 1800 to Stranraer leaves Killie on 15/10/2016.<br><br>[David Panton 15/10/2016]](/images/56000/56886.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![The evening service to Newcastle at Kilmarnock on 15/10/2016. Behind the trees there is a smart new college building in the place of the Johnnie Walker plant which once dominated this scene.<br><br>[David Panton 15/10/2016]](/images/56000/56894.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A 380 with an afternoon service to Ayr calls at Glengarnock on 22/10/2016. You'll have to imagine the autumn smell of brown leaves.<br><br>[David Panton 22/10/2016]](/images/57000/57006.jpg "Glengarnock")
![The painter is putting the finishing touches today to the spectacularly refurbished underpass linking Kilmarnock Station with the new Ayrshire College on the former Johnny Walker site. The official opening will be on 7 December.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 02/12/2016]](/images/57000/57386.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Detail of one of the panels in the Kilmarnock station underpass. Local railways are among the historical themes commemorated in the new look underpass.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 02/12/2016]](/images/57000/57436.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![White Hares Looking Up by Wayne Darnell at Dalry Station.<br>
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Three glass-fibre sculptures from Wayne Darnell funded by the Dalry Parish Boundary Trust and North Ayrshire Council were unveiled today at the Dalry Station Garden Group's Open Day held in warm spring sunshine.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 24/03/2017]](/images/58000/58643.jpg "Dalry")
![History poster at Howwood, 'The Beetling Machines of Howwood'.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 24/03/2017]](/images/58000/58670.jpg "Howwood")
![What is this mysterious red pole at Howwood?<br><br>
For the answer [see image 23480].<br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 24/03/2017]](/images/58000/58683.jpg "Howwood")
![PS Waverley has finally reached Ayr for the first time after no show on four scheduled calls. Arrived yesterday evening and now setting off 9/7 for Largs etc. and eventually Tarbert.<br><br>[Colin Miller 09/07/2017]](/images/60000/60304.jpg "Ayr Harbour")
![37421 working a track inspection train at Kilmarnock with 37219.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 02/08/2017]](/images/60000/60952.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![After several 'no shows', Waverley is seen leaving Ayr on the 9th of August.<br>
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<br><br>[Colin Miller 09/08/2017]](/images/60000/60536.jpg "Ayr Harbour")
![On tour. 5Z74; a sleeper coach and 73970 en route from Kilmarnock Works to Polmadie. View looking west. The floodlighting is for a recycling centre.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/08/2017]](/images/60000/60553.jpg "Bogside Junction")
![A southbound 380 crosses the River Garnock with Kilwinning in the background and the Bartonholm marsh in the foreground. The distant tower belongs to Kilwinning Abbey.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/08/2017]](/images/60000/60589.jpg "Garnock Longford Viaduct")
![380020 passes the site of Bogside Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/08/2017]](/images/60000/60679.jpg "Bogside Junction")
![Southbound 380 just south of Byrehill Junction and rainbow.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/09/2017]](/images/60000/60734.jpg "Byrehill Junction")
![Falkland Yard, West Sidings, with nothing happening and looking slightly overgrown and rusty. There's far less coal traffic with only Killoch in use. In the background is the former Scottish Agricultural Industries works.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/09/2017]](/images/60000/60760.jpg "Falkland Yard")
![The approach to the original Ayr station, seen from the north. Much of the site is built over and has new roads, as seen in the background. The original Ayr Shed was distant, on the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/09/2017]](/images/60000/60765.jpg "Ayr [1st]")
![View north to Falkland Junction. The original Ayr terminus is some way behind the camera. Beyond the bridge seen here the line was crossed, on the level, by the Ayr Harbour Junction to Newton Junction curve.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/09/2017]](/images/60000/60807.jpg "Ayr [1st]")
![View east on Waggon Road, the course of the former Ayr Waggonway. The line to the original Ayr terminus ran left to right in this view and there was a level crossing. The first Ayr shed was on the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/09/2017]](/images/60000/60815.jpg "Ayr [1st]")
![View north from the site of the first Ayr station, a terminus. This location later had a large goods shed. There is nothing to give away the former use. On the right was the line which continued across the River Ayr to the south harbour.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/09/2017]](/images/60000/60845.jpg "Ayr [1st]")
![View south towards the terminus at the original Ayr station. For a view while the line was still open and in use as a goods depot [[see image 37055]] - note the spire of Ayr Town Hall in both photographs. The older photograph is a block further north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/09/2017]](/images/60000/60852.jpg "Ayr [1st]")
![The <a target=external href=http://swscotlandcrp.org/>South West Scotland Community Rail Partnership</a> was launched today at Kilmarnock.<br><br>
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From the website: <i>'The South West Scotland Community Rail Partnership is a voluntary, not-for-profit organisation which aims to engage people in their local railway across Ayrshire and Dumfries & Galloway - from Stranraer in the far south-west, to Ayr and Kilmarnock in the north and south to Dumfries and east to Gretna Green on the Anglo-Scottish Border.'</i><br>
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<br><br>[John Yellowlees 11/09/2017]](/images/60000/60719.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A 380 heads north at Dalgarven. The view looks west from the disused River Garnock Viaduct of the former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/60000/60975.jpg "Dalgarven Signal Box")
![A 380 at Byrehill Junction. The view is to the east. The mineral line to Stobbs Junction passed from left to right in this view.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/61000/61000.jpg "Byrehill Junction")
![A non stop service comes south through Dalry. Off to the right some hares are having a party.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/61000/61038.jpg "Dalry")
![On display at Dalry station. I believe I've seen these photographs somewhere before ...<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/61000/61048.jpg "Dalry")
![Southbound 380 approaching Dalry station. In the foreground was the Blair Iron Works of which nothing remains. By way of contrast is the DSM (formerly Roche) plant in the background left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/61000/61052.jpg "Dalry")
![Passengers board a northbound 380 in bright evening light.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/61000/61081.jpg "Dalry")
![Timing is everything ... tricky to catch the front of a fast moving train through this narrow opening. The bridge in the foreground is the former southbound line of the flying junction at Brownhill, just south of Glengarnock and north of Dalry.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/09/2017]](/images/60000/60986.jpg "Brownhill Junction")
![A view from the former southbound flyover line at Brownhill Junction. For a dissimilar view [see image 24136] which was taken further north on the same line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/09/2017]](/images/61000/61144.jpg "Brownhill Junction")
![Killyween: Single tickets only in the basement at Kilmarnock Station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 27/10/2017]](/images/61000/61482.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![A new Heritage Walk information board behind the bay platform buffers at Kilmarnock station in January 2018.<br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 27/01/2018]](/images/63000/63360.jpg "Kilmarnock")
