Logan Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Logan Junction (1872-1931)Opened on the Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway).
Description
This was a double track junction between the curve from Cumnock Junction on the Glasgow and South Western Railway's main line and the line from Ayr via Cumnock [1st]. The combined line continuing on towards Lugar immediately singled.
The signal box was on the south side of the junction. It opened in 1881.
The curve fell out of use in 1927 and the box formally closed in 1932.
The remaining line from Ayr carried passengers until 1951 and continued in use until 1964.
The site of the junction can be found in farmland.
Tags
Junction| Nearby stations Cumnock [2nd] Cumnock [1st] Lugar Commondyke Cronberry Cairntable Halt Auchinleck Dumfries House Skares New Cumnock Ochiltree Catrine Mauchline Sinclairston (Private) Muirkirk [1st] | Cumnock Junction Pit Dickston Pit Pit Lugar Works Lugar Mine Bank Viaduct Cumnock Viaduct Dickston Pit Glenmuir Viaduct Craigston Pit Rose Junction Common Junction Rodanhead Pit Dykes Pit No 2 |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 11/06/1872 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Annbank (Annbank Junction) to Cronberry and Belston Junction to Holehouse Junction opened for goods and minerals. Cumnock Junction to Logan Junction probably also opened. |
| / /1931 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Cumnock Junction (excluded) to Logan Junction (excluded) closed. |
