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Glasgow And Kilmarnock Joint Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Aerial view of Lugton. Left Lugton (GBKJR) and right Lugton East (L&AR).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7521.jpg "Lugton")
![5.38 pm St Enoch - Carlisle on Neilston Bank. 5731 & J. McCreadie up. Spring 1941.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1941]](/images/15000/15510.jpg "Neilston Low")
![Dumfries - Glasgow (local) topping Shilford. 668 piloting CR 4.6.0 14653. Speed just over 60. Spring 1941.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1941]](/images/15000/15513.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![5.30 pm St Enoch - Midland Express. Climbing to Shilford. 5X 4.6.0 5715. Spring 1941.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1941]](/images/15000/15518.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![Mogul 2909 on Up Goods on Neilston Bank. Spring 1941.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1941]](/images/15000/15520.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![A southbound freight approaching Dunlop on 17 May 1952 behind class 5 4-6-0 45491. The train has recently cleared the A735 road bridge and is passing Dunlop's up distant signal. [Ref query 10890]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/05/1952]](/images/56000/56343.jpg "Dunlop")
![An up football special leaving Dunlop on 23 May 1953 behind Black 5 45266. [Ref query 2382] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 23/05/1953]](/images/57000/57127.jpg "Dunlop")
![<I>Crab</I> 2-6-0 42833 arriving at Lugton on Saturday 26 May 1956 with a St Enoch - Kilmarnock semi-fast. [Ref query 19 November 2017] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/05/1956]](/images/61000/61802.jpg "Lugton")
![Hurlford 2P 4-4-0 no 40617 calls at Caldwell on 11 July 1956 with a St Enoch - Kilmarnock train. The station, which opened with the line in 1871, was briefly renamed Uplawmoor on closure of the L&A station of the same name in 1962, but eventually closed in November 1966. [Ref query 92] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/07/1956]](/images/57000/57096.jpg "Caldwell")
![New Swindon class 126 DMU trailer cars, standing behind Lugton Signal Box alongside the loading bank, during a break in their journey from Swindon Works to Glasgow's Eastfield depot in the summer of 1959. Car no Sc59407 is nearest the camera. [See image 39297]<br>
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<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /08/1959]](/images/31000/31786.jpg "Lugton")
![A northbound train, hauled by Holbeck based Royal Scot 46113 <I>Cameronian</I>, passing Lugton's colour light down distant signal on Saturday 22 August 1959, having just cleared the A735 road bridge. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/27000/27171.jpg "Lugton")
![AC Cars Railbus no SC 79979 photographed at Lugton in the summer of 1959 [see image 36725].<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/31000/31201.jpg "Lugton")
![The 5.30pm St Enoch - Carlisle stopping train photographed south of Lugton on 22 August 1959. Locomotive is Stanier Pacific no 46223 <I>Princess Alice</I>. <br>
<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/31000/31251.jpg "Lugton")
![Black 5 no 45459 with a northbound freight has just passed Lugton's colour light down distant signal on Saturday 22 August 1959. The road bridge in the background carries the A735. The locomotive survived for almost another 5 years, being eventually withdrawn from Hurlford shed in May 1964.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/34000/34566.jpg "Lugton")
![Carlisle Kingmoor's Black 5 no 45152 heads north past Lugton's down distant colour light signal on 22 August 1959. The A735 road bridge spans the line in the background.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/35000/35470.jpg "Lugton")
![Corkerhill shed's Black 5 no 45251 photographed just south of Lugton with an up train in the summer of 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/38000/38002.jpg "Lugton")
![72004 <I>'Clan MacDonald'</I> with a Glasgow - Leeds train south of Lugton in the summer of 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/38000/38059.jpg "Lugton")
![The Beith railbus, AC Cars 79979, photographed at Lugton on 22 August 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/08/1959]](/images/38000/38164.jpg "Lugton")
![Black 5 no 44727 with an up passenger train south of Lugton on 28 August 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/08/1959]](/images/35000/35045.jpg "Lugton")
![45123 heads an evening northbound freight through Lugton.<br><br>[John Robin 26/06/1962]](/images/7000/7577.jpg "Lugton")
![73059 has been put in the loop while 73124 and 45687 pass with the car sleeper.<br><br>[John Robin 26/06/1962]](/images/7000/7578.jpg "Lugton")
![A pair of McIntosh ex-Caledonian 0-4-4 tanks stored in the sidings at Lugton awaiting disposal on 26 June 1962. 55266 and 55206 had been officially withdrawn from Corkerhill shed 9 months earlier. Both were cut up at Connels of Coatbridge in September 1963.<br><br>[John Robin 26/06/1962]](/images/52000/52787.jpg "Lugton East Sidings")
![A Railcar stands at Beith Town in July 1962, four months before closure. <br><br>[Colin Miller 18/07/1962]](/images/19000/19315.jpg "Beith Town")
![The station building at Beith Town in July 1962 with a diesel railcar standing at the platform.<br><br>[Colin Miller 18/07/1962]](/images/19000/19345.jpg "Beith Town")
![McIntosh 2P 0-4-4T no 55266 awaiting disposal in the sidings at Lugton on 13 April 1963, some 18 months after official withdrawal from Corkerhill shed. The locomotive was eventually cut up at Connels of Coatbridge the following September. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 13/04/1963]](/images/23000/23423.jpg "Lugton East Sidings")
![Kingmoor Black 5 no 45112 climbing Shilford Bank with a St Enoch - Carlisle stopping train on 1 April 1965. [Ref query 2159] <br><br>[John Robin 01/04/1965]](/images/48000/48356.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![Royal Scot 46140 <I>The King's Royal Rifle Corps</I> starts the descent of Neilston Bank at Shilford at the head of a Carlisle train on the first day of April 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 01/04/1965]](/images/49000/49496.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![46140 <I>The King's Royal Rifle Corps</I> with a Carlisle - Glasgow stopping train at Shilford on 1 April 1965. [Ref query 4268]<br><br>[John Robin 01/04/1965]](/images/50000/50660.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![Hard working BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73060 comes slowly over the summit of Neilston Bank on Saturday 17 July 1965 with a Glasgow Fair special. <br><br>[John Robin 17/07/1965]](/images/50000/50478.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![A Leeds - Glasgow train heads north at Lugton behind a <I>Peak</I> in March 1966. The locomotive is about to pass between the abutments of the overbridge that once carried the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway over the formation at this point.<br><br>[Colin Miller /03/1966]](/images/25000/25654.jpg "Lugton")
![A Brush type 4 at the head of a London - Glasgow train photographed at Neilston in August 1966.<br><br>[Colin Miller 13/08/1966]](/images/26000/26547.jpg "Neilston Low")
![A Metro Cammell 3-car set forming the 1532 ex-Kilmarnock runs into Lugton on Saturday 5 November 1966. This was the last day on which scheduled passenger trains stopped at Lugton with official closure taking place two days later on Monday 7th.<br><br>[Colin Miller 05/11/1966]](/images/18000/18998.jpg "Lugton")
![A Derby Lightweight DMU on a Glasgow - Carlisle service passes the Lanarkshire & Ayrshire bridge remains at Lugton in April 1969. [With thanks to Stewart Duthie]<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /04/1969]](/images/25000/25676.jpg "Lugton")
![The old Stewarton station, photographed looking along the northbound platform towards Dunlop in June 1974. Single line working had been introduced by that time and lifting of the former southbound line was in progress with some removed sections of track stored on the redundant platform.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 19/06/1974]](/images/22000/22263.jpg "Stewarton")
![A Swindon Class 126 DMU passes through Dunlop on a very wet 19th June 1974. The DMU is heading south on the former northbound track. Single line working had been implemented pending the lifting and relaying of the nearer track, which ultimately would be the remaining track until recent re-doubling. (Comment from Michael Laing; That's a Class 126 inter-city DMU. Note the headcode panels, white circle MU code and buckeye coupler.)<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 19/06/1974]](/images/59000/59349.jpg "Dunlop")
![Working hard on the approach to Shilford from the north is a Carlisle bound G&SW route 47 hauled train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7737.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![DMU for the south at Stewarton.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8074.jpg "Stewarton")
![A southbound DMU arrives at the new Kilmaurs station in 1987.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8075.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![Southbound 47 on Carlisle train at Dunlop.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8076.jpg "Dunlop")
![Dunlop. Remains of northbound platform on right. Carlisle train receding into distance.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8077.jpg "Dunlop")
![Dunlop, looking south. Since the photograph (1987) the line has been re-doubled and the second platform re-built. Note the old stone goods shed (then in use for a building company) in the background and lack of modern housing estate. Also the trees were quite a bit smaller! The trackbed appeared pretty diesel soaked - this was back in the days of the 47s on the Glasgow - Dumfries - Carlisle service. For the present day view [see image 23681].<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/10/1987]](/images/25000/25829.jpg "Dunlop")
![View from DMU halted in Lugton loop. The approaching DMU is about to run into the loop alongside and to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8507.jpg "Lugton")
![Passing Lugton box heading south. Before the line was singled and station closed it was just beyond the box. The left track is for Kilmarnock and right for RNAD Giffen.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8508.jpg "Lugton")
![The line to Giffen seen from a DMU heading south to Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8509.jpg "Lugton")
![Stewarton seen from southbound DMU.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8510.jpg "Stewarton")
![Lugton box period piece from the summer of 1989. A DMU heads for Kilmarnock in the background while Motherwell guard Hugh Brown (left), of a 37 hauled freight sat in the siding at Lugton, passes some time talking to the signalman.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/27000/27869.jpg "Lugton")
![The signalman looks on as 37242 reverses having drawn a train out from the siding at Lugton. After reversing, the train was pinned down on the main southbound line and the leading two vans drawn forward again and reversed back into the siding.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/51000/51060.jpg "Lugton")
![The interior of Lugton signalbox in 1992. Quite a few white levers there.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1992]](/images/58000/58143.jpg "Lugton")
![Beith, looking to the buffers in 1997. The line curved round to the right following Balfour Avenue.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/61000/61226.jpg "Beith Town")
![Ancient Glasgow Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway note from Barrhead to Lochwinnoch dated August 17 1881.<br><br>[Colin Miller 09/11/2002]](/images/26000/26103.jpg "Plates, signs and notices")
![Kilmarnock station and the junction between the Troon (right)and Barrhead (centre) lines seen from the north. The line to Dalry occupied the overgrown ground on the right and is still partly intact. On the left a siding leads to a distillery.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/04/2005]](/images/2000/2670.jpg "Kilmarnock")
![Viaduct to the west of Barrmill station near the RNAD Giffen depot.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/10/2006]](/images/11000/11445.jpg "Barrmill")
![The impressive 10 arch Annick Water Viaduct (1868) to the south of Stewarton station. Photographed in June 2007 looking south west along the A735.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15495.jpg "Stewarton Viaduct")
![The 1984 station at Kilmaurs, looking south in June 2007. The original 1873 station had closed in November 1966.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15502.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![View south over Dunlop station from the roadbridge on 17 June 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15555.jpg "Dunlop")
![The 1871 station at Stewarton in June 2007, looking north towards Dunlop.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15627.jpg "Stewarton")
![Milepost 18 midway between Stewarton Viaduct and a roadbridge over the A735 where a fuel oil train heading south for Riccarton derailed on 27 January 2009. New points for a dynamic loop seem to be in the field nearby.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /01/2008]](/images/22000/22258.jpg "Lochridge Junction")
![Glasgow bound service passing Lugton. Lugton is likely to become the location of a long <i>dynamic loop</i> (meaning trains do not have to slow to enter the loop I gather) to assist an increase of frequency of trains between Glasgow and Kilmarnock.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/2008]](/images/17000/17715.jpg "Lugton")
![Dunlop station, looking north on 26 February 2009, showing progress on the <I>dynamic loop</I> and new (or rebuilt) northbound platform. The name <I>dynamic loop</I> sells this a bit short as it's really the reinstatement of several miles of double track covering two stations, the other being Stewarton, and extending to and incorporating the existing loop at Lugton to the north. This will allow a half-hourly service between Glasgow and Kilmarnock, rather than the current often overcrowded hourly service.<br><br>[David Panton 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22658.jpg "Dunlop")
![The camber at Dunlop station can make alighting a slightly queasy experience. The driver of a Carlisle to Glasgow 156 495 chats with workers building the new platform to serve the new long loop, or rather whopping 5-mile extension of the existing Lugton loop, which will extend south past Stewarton. The current long single section between Lugton and Kilmarnock limits frequency and some passenger trains are halted in the manually signalled Lugton loop. A half-hourly service is expected to start from the December 2009 timetable when work should be completed. Isolated stretches of the second track are already in place.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22685.jpg "Dunlop")
![The dynamic loop from Lugton to the north will stop short of Kilmaurs, which is just as well as clearly no thought was given to a possible future redoubling when the station was reopened a generation ago. Some expensive and disruptive work would be needed here! 156 514 is seen at the station on 26 February with a Kilmarnock service.<br><br>[David Panton 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22686.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![The new rail bridge carrying the Glasgow - Kilmarnock line over the A735 road near Stewarton now in position, photographed on 18 March 2009. Clean up activity and structural work continues in the vicinity following the oil train derailment and ensuing major fire that occurred here in late January.<br><br>[Ken Browne 18/03/2009]](/images/22000/22896.jpg "Stewarton")
![Looking south to Kilmarnock at Stewarton in March 2009 showing the new northbound line being laid.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/03/2009]](/images/23000/23092.jpg "Stewarton")
![North of Dunlop looking to Barrhead. The line on the left is the new one. A replacement to the signal exists behind the camera.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/03/2009]](/images/23000/23103.jpg "Dunlop")
![Looking south over Dunlop station. There is a bit of a drainage problem on the right hand side with the new track and platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/03/2009]](/images/23000/23104.jpg "Dunlop")
![Looking down the ramp to the to-be southbound platform at Dunlop. Beyond a footbridge runs down to the new/reinstated northbound platform. A Network Rail sign proudly (if somewhat minimally) announces the improvements.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/03/2009]](/images/23000/23108.jpg "Dunlop")
![156 449 about to leave Stewarton with a Glasgow - Kilmarnock service on 7 May 2009. The redoubled track is already in place here, as it is right back to Lugton, in readiness for the planned twice-hourly service on the line from December 2009. At Dunlop the second platform is substantially complete with even platform lighting in place, but here work has barely started. However, a white-tiled subway to the platform has recently been re-exposed. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 07/05/2009]](/images/23000/23603.jpg "Stewarton")
![156 450 at the head of a 4-car service to Glasgow Central stands in bright sunshine at Dunlop on 13 May as work progresses alongside on the second platform.<br><br>[Ken Browne 13/05/2009]](/images/23000/23681.jpg "Dunlop")
![View from bridge 72 looking south towards Dunlop on 13 May 2009, showing ongoing work in progress, with cable gulleys now in place.<br><br>[Ken Browne 13/05/2009]](/images/23000/23688.jpg "Dunlop")
![View over Dunlop station showing progress on 13 May 2009.<br><br>[Ken Browne 13/05/2009]](/images/23000/23708.jpg "Dunlop")
![PW train number 8K63 at Kilmaurs on 13 June 2009 with EWS locomotive 66122 nearest the camera. Various engineering activities were being undertaken along the line over the weekend, including replacement of drains, points installation and platform work at Dunlop, involving some 8 separate trains. <br><br>[Ken Browne 13/06/2009]](/images/24000/24117.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![Glasgow bound 156433 awaits its departure time at Stewarton in between showers on 14 July. Evidence of the ongoing building work at the station can be seen in the background.<br>
<br><br>[John Steven 14/07/2009]](/images/24000/24566.jpg "Stewarton")
![156433 departs from Stewarton for Glasgow Central on 14 July.<br><br>[John Steven 14/07/2009]](/images/24000/24583.jpg "Stewarton")
![Work on the 'dynamic loop' appears to be on schedule with all traffic<br>
temporarily switched to the new platforms at Dunlop and Stewarton <br>
allowing the other (previously sole) platforms, to be rebuilt from <br>
scratch, or so it seems. Trackwork is not yet complete at the Lugton <br>
end where the new line from the south reverts to the existing one for the time being. 156 449 pulls into Platform 2 at Dunlop with a Carlisle service on 2 September 2009.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2009]](/images/25000/25282.jpg "Dunlop")
![The recently-commissioned 'new' platform at Dunlop on 2 September 2009, temporarily the only one available while work transfers to the other side.<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2009]](/images/25000/25326.jpg "Dunlop")
![156 462 arrives at Dunlop via the <I>new</I> line on 17 September 2009 with the 1604 to Glasgow Central. The older platform here is currently being refurbished. <br><br>[Ken Browne 17/09/2009]](/images/25000/25503.jpg "Dunlop")
![156 436 enters the new platform at Stewarton with the 16.22 to Kilmaurs on 17 September 2009.<br><br>[Ken Browne 17/09/2009]](/images/25000/25528.jpg "Stewarton")
![156 462 leaving Dunlop with 16.04 to Glasgow Central on 17 September passing a pair of track machines just beyond the station. <br><br>[Ken Browne 17/09/2009]](/images/25000/25535.jpg "Dunlop")
![All together now 'I've been working on the railroad ...'. View north towards Lugton box. The Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway line formerly crossed here (the overbridge is in the distance).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/09/2009]](/images/25000/25568.jpg "Lugton")
![Looking south at the re-doubling works by Lugton box. The track here was double but is being re-laid as part of the works. Just before taking the photograph a rail mounted crane retreated and the tamper went slowly over the line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/09/2009]](/images/25000/25576.jpg "Lugton")
![Tamper paused on the viaduct south of Stewarton. The view looks east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/09/2009]](/images/25000/25584.jpg "Stewarton Viaduct")
![This is the south end of the loop from Lugton, about 1/3 mile on from the bridge replaced south of Stewarton.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/09/2009]](/images/25000/25609.jpg "Lochridge Junction")
![A Hydrex road-rail crane makes some slight adjustments at Lugton before a Tamper moved in. Lugton is the north end of the new loop which runs north from Stewarton. There was until recently just a short loop here (and the disused line to Giffen).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/09/2009]](/images/25000/25613.jpg "Lugton")
![A 4-car 156 pulls into Stewarton on 17 March 2010. The train is heading for Kilmarnock where it will split for 2 return journeys to Glasgow.<br><br>[David Panton 17/03/2010]](/images/28000/28165.jpg "Stewarton")
![156 437 pulls into Dunlop with a Kilmarnock service on 17 March 2010. It is only 3 months since restoration to a double track station took place here and everything is still looking pristine. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 17/03/2010]](/images/28000/28327.jpg "Dunlop")
![Now that there's a need for it again the subway at Stewarton has been reinstated. The old ceramic tiling has been covered up and it's hard to believe that the subway is not entirely new. Photographed from the Up side on 17 March.<br><br>[David Panton 17/03/2010]](/images/28000/28381.jpg "Stewarton")
![Three of the commemorative posters produced by Stewarton Academy on display outside the town's railway station on 27 April 2010.<br><br>[First ScotRail 27/04/2010]](/images/9000/9456.jpg "Stewarton")
![The 10.13 to Kilmarnock stands at Kilmaurs on 16 October 2010.<br><br>[Ken Browne 16/10/2010]](/images/31000/31139.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![The 11.05 for Kilmarnock runs into the station at Dunlop on 31 May 2011.<br><br>[Colin Miller 31/05/2011]](/images/34000/34305.jpg "Dunlop")
![156507 emerges from a leafy glade and pulls into the platform at Kilmaurs with the 1S50 Newcastle Central - Glasgow Central service on a beautiful summer's morning on 3 June 2011.<br><br>[Ken Browne 03/06/2011]](/images/34000/34618.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![Polmadie 'Thunderbird' 57302 <I>Virgil Tracy</I> runs through Kilmaurs on 8 September.<br><br>[Ken Browne 08/09/2011]](/images/35000/35583.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![The surviving goods shed at Kilmaurs in February 2012. The station is to the left.<br><br>[Ken Browne 08/02/2012]](/images/37000/37735.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![Deltic no D9000/55022 Royal Scot Grey passes Kilmaurs with 6Z53 Glasgow Works to Brodie's Bonnyton Works Kilmarnock 334030 drag for refurbishment<br><br>[Ken Browne 25/05/2013]](/images/43000/43298.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![Super Sprinter 156499 pauses at Kilmaurs whilst working 1L55 Glasgow Central to Carlisle,<br><br>[Ken Browne 25/05/2013]](/images/43000/43300.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![On 4th February 1898 the Ayr-Glasgow 'Boat Goods' and the Kilmarnock-Ayr 'Mail' collided at Barassie with 7 fatalities. A James Stirling 0-6-0, No. 49, on the Goods was completely destroyed and the Mail engine, No.153, a Hugh Smellie 4-4-0, was damaged beyond repair. This is the grave of the unfortunate John Tennant, one of the dead, in Kilmaurs Churchyard.<br><br>[Colin Miller 09/07/2013]](/images/43000/43717.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![Colas Railfreight 60087 with 6B01, Grangemouth to Riccarton Oil Terminal through Kilmaurs on 12 September 2015.<br><br>[Ken Browne 12/09/2015]](/images/54000/54372.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![156513 works the 1A17 Kilmarnock to Glasgow Central service in very wintry conditions through Kilmaurs on 8 January 2016. This service has since been temporarily suspended and replaced by Virgin Voyagers until the bridge over the Clyde at Lamington is reopened in February.<br><br>[Ken Browne 08/01/2016]](/images/53000/53952.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![DRS class 57 no 57302 drags Pendolino 390152 through Kilmaurs on 7 February 2016 on its way from Edge Hill to Polmadie CAR Depot. <br><br>[Ken Browne 07/02/2016]](/images/54000/54404.jpg "Kilmaurs")
![The Lowland sleeper, diverted via Kilmarnock due to repair work on the Lamington viaduct, waits at Lugton on 17th February 2016. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 17/02/2016]](/images/54000/54280.jpg "Lugton")
![Facing South West at Lugton. The A735 overbridge is just before the signal. First time I've been diverted or delayed on the sleeper - an extra hour in bed!<br><br>[Colin McDonald 17/02/2016]](/images/54000/54331.jpg "Lugton")
![This location is south of Stewarton near where the double track becomes single. GBRf 66743 is heading south to Kilmarnock to join with stable mate 66746 on the 'Royal Scotsman' for overnight stabling. [Ref query 25071]<br><br>[Ken Browne 28/08/2016]](/images/56000/56530.jpg "Lochridge Junction")
![Sprinter 156514 working 1L55 south to Carlisle on 28 August 2016. The train is south of Stewarton, where the double tracks become single.<br><br>[Ken Browne 28/08/2016]](/images/56000/56571.jpg "Lochridge Junction")
![156502 on the descent to Barrhead from Shilford Summit. View looks to Barrhead. 30 years on from my last visit to this location [see image 7737] - there's been a bit of tree growth in the intervening years.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/08/2017]](/images/60000/60554.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![156439 leads a 4-car 156 for Kilmarnock at Kilmaurs on 19 September 2017. Kilmaurs is the only single track station on the Glasgow - Dumfries - Carlisle line. You do feel that in the 1960s and 1970s they singled the wrong bits of the G&SW line, though I suppose coal traffic south of Kilmarnock was then a consideration.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 19/09/2017]](/images/61000/61043.jpg "Kilmaurs")
