Gasswater Barytes Loading Pad

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Gasswater Barytes Loading Pad (1917-1964)

Served by the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).

Description

A loading pad, and preparation plant, for the Gasswater Baryite Mine which was to east and connected by an aerial ropeway. The mine had its own narrow gauge railway system. The ropeway replaced the western part of this railway.

The loading pad was located by the Wrentnall Cottages (now gone). It was on a short siding from the Gasswater Branch which served Cairnhill 1,2 Mine.

Nothing remains here following opencast mining of the area, however there are surface remains at the mine and along some of the former railway.

Tags

Siding Aerial ropeway

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
06/04/2021