Lugar Ironworks Railway
Introduction
The Lugar Ironworks, opened 1845, was connected to the Muirkirk Branch, opened in 1848, and also had its own private railway system. The system was expanded and altered as mines opened and closed and was to survive the closure of the iron works in 1928, later becoming a NCB workshops.
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Lugar to Lugar Iron Works
This portion of line was built by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway to connect the iron works to their Muirkirk branch. This portion of line ran parallel to a northern branch of the private line.
Cronberry Pit No 1 was an ironstone mine located to the north of the Muirkirk line near Lugar station.
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See also
Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway)
Bill Roberton //2004
This junction was east of Lugar station. The Lugar Ironworks was reached by reversal from sidings just to the east, on the south side of the line. The branch ran south west and then south to the works via Rose Junction. The reversal sidings, Cronberry Sidings Nos 1,2,3, may have originally been looped with their east end at Cronberry Pits No 1,2,3 Signal Box.
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See also
Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway)
This iron works had its own private railway network, largely to the north, serving a number of coal mines. Private workers trains ran from the works to these mines, some of which were quite distant.
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Lugar Iron Works
A private network of lines linked the iron works to coal and ironstone mines.
This iron works had its own private railway network, largely to the north, serving a number of coal mines. Private workers trains ran from the works to these mines, some of which were quite distant.
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These ironstone mines were located to the south of the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway) and north of the Lugar Iron Works (1845-1928) with which they were connected by an internal tramway.
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