Campbeltown railway station

Not to be confused with Campbelltown railway station.
Campbeltown Railway Station

A railway cutting in Campbeltown near the old station
Location
Place Campbeltown
Area Argyll and Bute
Coordinates 55°25′27″N 5°36′11″W / 55.4243°N 5.6031°W / 55.4243; -5.6031Coordinates: 55°25′27″N 5°36′11″W / 55.4243°N 5.6031°W / 55.4243; -5.6031
Grid reference NR7209320402
Operations
Original company Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway
Platforms None
History
16 August 1906[1] Station opened
November 1931[1] Station closed
January 1932[1] Station re-opened
May 1932[1] Station closed to passengers
1934 Track lifted
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Campbeltown was a railway station in the town of Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, serving the town and ferry terminal. The Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway was a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge railway in Kintyre, Scotland, between the towns of Campbeltown and Machrihanish. Plantation Halt was the next stop on the line.[2][1]

History

The station on Hall Street had no platforms and only a run round loop for the locomotive between the Old and New Quays.[3][4] Upgraded from a coal carrying mineral lined and opened for passenger traffic in 1906, the railway did not have stations as such, just places where the train halted to pick up passengers. Many of the passengers were day trippers from Glasgow as a turbine steamer would bring passengers to Campbeltown early enough to catch a train to Machrihanish and allow a return journey all in one day.[5]

Only three other passenger-carrying lines in the UK operated on the same gauge, all of them in Wales - the Corris Railway, the short-lived Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway and the Talyllyn Railway.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Plantation   Campbeltown to Machrihanish
Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway		   Terminus

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Butt 1995, p. 52.
  2. ↑ History of the line. Retrieved : 2012-09-30
  3. ↑ RCAHMS Campbeltown station Retrieved : 2012-09-30
  4. ↑ OS Map 1914 Retrieved : 2012-09-30
  5. ↑ Railway Details Retrieved : 2012-09-30

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