Kilwinning Byres

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Kilwinning Byres (1831-1840)

Opened on the Ardrossan and Johnstone Railway.

Description

The first station in Kilwinning was a terminus at the Byres. This is west of Kilwinning on the road west via Byres to Stevenston. The site was probably subsumed into the Ardrossan platforms at today's Kilwinning station.

A branch to the Dirrans, south and east of Kilwinning, was continued to Doura. This served the Eglinton Iron Works and the colliery on the east bank of the River Garnock.

The line was intended to continue north to Johnstone to meet the canal but was not extended, the Glasgow, Paisley Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway instead approached from the north within a few years. The Ardrossan and Johnstone Railway was reincorporated and rebuilt as the Ardrossan Railway, a standard gauge branch from Kilwinning to Ardrossan. The original terminus was probably lost at that time. The junction was just to the north of the probably site.

Tags

Terminus
04/09/2017

Books


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

Ardrossan (North) 1895: Ayrshire Sheet 16.01 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Ayrshire)

Ardrossan (South) 1895: Ayrshire Sheet 16.05 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Ayrshire)

Kilwinning 1895: Ayrshire Sheet 16.04 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Ayrshire)

Old Ardrossan

Old Kilwinning

Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722-1844

The Glasgow & South Western Railway a History