Polquhap Summit
Location type
PlaceNames and dates
Polquhap SidingPolquhap Summit
Opened on the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway.
Description
Summit of 616 ft. There was a siding here, on the southbound line and reached by reversal. A cabin was opposite, on the west side of the line. The siding was served by a lane.
Polquhap Farm is immediately to the south west (Polwhap in older maps).
To the south west was the Benston Limeworks and quarry.
The railway remains open, a double track.
Tags
SummitExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Cumnock [1st] New Cumnock Cumnock [2nd] Dumfries House Lugar Commondyke Skares Cronberry Auchinleck Cairntable Halt Ochiltree Catrine Sinclairston (Private) Mauchline Rankinston | Coalburn Mine Hall of Auchincross Opencast Bank Junction Greenburn Loading Point Afton Brickworks Fordmouth Bridge Lanemark Brickworks Pathhead Colliery No 3 Pit Cumnock Viaduct Crowbandsgate Coal Terminal Lanemark Collieries (Boigside No 2) Greenburn Junction Logan Junction Tourist/other Boig Road Level Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways |  Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines) |  The Glasgow & South Western Railway a History |
