Wellwood Opencast Disposal Centre Sidings
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Wellwood Opencast Disposal Centre Sidings (1952-1961)Opened on the Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway).
Description
This was a 1950s set of sidings with an entry control cabin, shed/workshop, exchange sidings and main sidings. The site was on an east-west orientation with a connection to the GSW Muirkirk which faced west, the sidings being on the south side and parallel to that line. A building straddled at least one line in the sidings at the east end of the site.
The purpose was perhaps to serve the NCB developments of the 1950s which included drift and opencast mines nearby.
Opened on the 1st of April 1952 it closed in 1961 and was mothballed and maintained until the line's closure.
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SidingsAliases
Wellwood Opencast Disposal Centre
| Nearby stations Cairntable Halt Cronberry Muirkirk [1st] Muirkirk [2nd] Lugar Commondyke Cumnock [2nd] Cumnock [1st] Auchinleck Catrine New Cumnock Glenbuck Dumfries House Loudounhill Skares | Powharnal Drift Mine Wellwood Shed Powharnal Opencast Powharnal Opencast Extension Wellwood Pit Wellwood Pits Wellwood Iron stone mine Tarrioch Iron Works Welltrees Mine No 4 Welltrees Siding Cronberry Moor Mine Welltrees Mine No 3 Powharnal Row Tourist/other Wellwood Signal Box [2nd] Wellwood Siding Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
