Capenoch Signal Box

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Name and dates

Capenoch Signal Box

Opened on the Maybole and Girvan Railway.

Description

This signal box closed in 1890. It was just over a mile south of Maybole.

It was just south of the 'Marl Hole', a dip in the railway south of Maybole station where the line crossed the valley of the Abbeymill Burn. To the north the line dropped into the 'hole' with a 1 in 63 for over a mile and to the south was a 1 in 105 for around a mile.

To the south was the short lived Crosshill [Ayrshire] station (1860-62).

Tags

Signal box

Aliases

Marl Hole