Grangestone Siding

Location type

Sidings

Name and dates

Grangestone Siding (1941-1965)

Opened on the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway (Glasgow and South Western Railway).

Description

This siding was located on the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway. Access was from the north. The siding served ICI Grangestone which had both a standard gauge and narrow gauge network. See that entry for more details.

Girvan Grangeston intermodal depot may be developed near this site, served by extension of the headshunt at the north end of Girvan Loop.

Tags

Siding

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

Locomotive Apprentice: At the North British Locomotive Company

Rails to Turnberry and Heads of Ayr: The Maidens & Dunure Light Railway & the Butlin's Branch (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

Tales of the Glasgow and South Western Railway