Barassie

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Barassie (1839-)

Station code: BSS National Rail ScotRail
Where: South Ayrshire, Scotland
Opened on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Ayr and Stranraer.

Description

This is a two platform station on the Glasgow-Ayr route.

To the immediate south is Barassie Junction where a route to Kilmarnock branches off, formerly served by platforms of the station.

This was a four platform station. There were two platforms on the Kilmarnock route, which is now singled - the eastbound platform remains, no longer served by the track. There was a goods yard on the east side, approached from the south.

Until the 1980s there was a G&SW style timber station building at 90 degrees to the southbound Glasgow platform, shared with the eastbound Kilmarnock platform.

The two platforms on the Glasgow-Ayr route cross over the former alignment of the original Kilmarnock and Troon Railway. The original alignment approached from the north east on a similar alignment, then crossed through the station site to run slightly further west than the later alignment to reach Troon.

When re-gauged the Kilmarnock line crossed over the Glasgow-Ayr route south of the station. There were curves to allow running from Troon Harbour to Glasgow and from Ayr to Kilmarnock. This original junction was replaced with another further south around the 1880s, (thus removing the flat crossing), the disused approach to Troon Harbour become a blind set of sidings approached from the original junction.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map

Facilities

Bike rack
Free parking
Ticket machine
Unstaffed




Chronology Dates

03/03/1969Kilmarnock and Troon Railway
Barassie to Kilmarnock closed to passengers.
05/05/1975Kilmarnock and Troon Railway
Barassie to Kilmarnock re-opened to passengers (on closure of Annbank to Mauchline to passengers).
  /  /1980Kilmarnock and Troon Railway
Kilmarnock to Barassie re-opened to passengers.
  /05/2008West Highland Railway
UPM Tilhill and CSP Forestry are awarded a £250,000 Freight Facilities Grant to assist with the movement of 120,000 tonnes of timber by Colas from Rannoch to the Caledonian Paper Mill, near Barassie and Irvine, over eight years. A lineside loading pad is to be built by Tilhill.

News items

31/07/2023Reason to bee cheerful on Scotland's Railway [Network Rail]
09/03/2023Ayrshire train services at standstill following signal fault [Daily Record]
27/07/2022Railway between Kilmarnock and Barassie set to re-open next week [Network Rail]
05/07/2022Ayrshire train disruption: Rail bosses explain more on sinkhole repair work [Ayr Advertiser]
01/07/2022Ayrshire train disruption: Rail bosses explain more on sinkhole repair work [Ayr Advertiser]
08/06/2022Network Rail confirm Kilmarnock-Barassie line to remain closed after sinkhole discovered [Scotsman]
07/06/2022Kilmarnock-Barassie line to remain closed as engineers repair sinkhole damage [Network Rail]
07/06/2022Ayr Trains: Sinkhole causes cancellation between Ayr and Kilmarnock [Ayr Advertiser]
14/03/2020About turn on parking spaces beside playpark [Ayr Advertiser]
22/02/2020Plans to increase car parking spaces at Barassie station are being considered [Ayr Advertiser]