Springside railway station

Springside

The site of Springside in 2007
Location
Place Springside
Area Ayrshire
Coordinates 55°37′05″N 4°35′31″W / 55.61809°N 4.59203°W / 55.61809; -4.59203Coordinates: 55°37′05″N 4°35′31″W / 55.61809°N 4.59203°W / 55.61809; -4.59203
Operations
Original company Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Pre-grouping Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping LMS
Platforms 2
History
1890 Opened
6 April 1964 Closed[1]
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Springside railway station was a railway station serving the village of Springside, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was originally part of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway.

History

The station opened in 1890,[2] and closed permanently to passengers on 6 April 1964.[1][3] Also known as Springside Halt, this station had no freight facilities.[2] The line between Irvine and Crosshouse continued to be used by trains until October 1965.[4] The last passenger train through the station was a Kilmaurs Sunday Schools special train to Ardrossan (South Beach) on Saturday, 20 June 1964.[5]

Originally Springside had a siding and a signal box, operated by a signalman who came down from Crosshouse on the shunt; once the day's work had been completed the signalman would catch the next available train back to Crosshouse. Springside was linked to Springhill collieries numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, as well as Cauldhame colliery. All these single track lines linked to the siding and were worked by the usual 'Pug' engines. Latterly the station was an unstaffed halt.[6]

About 300 yards from the station was another siding known locally as 'The Hurries', serving Springside Number 10 colliery. A horse-operated line, 'The Bogie Line', ran up from the pit, conveying the hutches to be unloaded into trucks waiting at the siding.[7]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Crosshouse
Line and station closed		   Glasgow and South Western Railway
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
   Dreghorn
Line and station closed

Views of the station

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Butt (1995) page 218
  2. 1 2 Wham, page 57
  3. ↑ Springside's Auld Lang Syne (2002). Springside Women's Health Group. P. 2.
  4. ↑ Stansfield, page 26
  5. ↑ Fowler, Page 15
  6. ↑ Fowler, Pages 16 & 17
  7. ↑ Fowler, Page 17

Sources

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