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Riccarton And Craigie
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Looking east from the western abutment of the River Irvine viaduct on the Riccarton Branch between Riccarton & Craigie Station and Thirdpart Junction, 19 October, 1985, just before the demolition men moved in to start on building the A71 Riccarton bypass on the railway trackbed (new road bridge later built on exactly the same spot).<br><br>[Robert Blane 19/10/1985]](/images/54000/54054.jpg "Riccarton and Craigie")
![Riccarton & Craigie station entrance and bridge abutments (station had an island platform), looking southwest from across Campbell Street in Riccarton, Kilmarnock, 20 October, 1985. Although this station was completely erected, including buildings, it never opened to regular passenger services, if at all. The twin bridges had been removed in the early 1970s (or thereabouts), and the rest of the railway relics were about to be demolished in the name of progress; the A71 bypass was about to be built on the trackbed through here.<br><br>[Robert Blane 20/10/1985]](/images/54000/54076.jpg "Riccarton and Craigie")
![Riccarton & Craigie station entrance, close up showing decorative carving on the archway, 20 October, 1985, before the demolition men set to. There was still a short section of the island platform above at the time, located behind the red sandstone section of the wall above the arch, although the top of the stairs up from street level were buried.<br><br>[Robert Blane 20/10/1985]](/images/54000/54085.jpg "Riccarton and Craigie")
