Cairntable Halt railway station

Cairntable Halt railway station was a railway station serving a rural district and the miners' row of forty-eight houses[1][2] at the Cairntable Terraces, East Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was by opened as late as circa 1928 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway on the Holehouse Junction to Rankinston line.

Cairntable Halt
Overbridge near Cairntable Halt's site
Location	Kerse Loch, Ayrshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.3952°N 4.4761°W
Grid reference	NS4327314042
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1927	Opened
3 April 1950	Closed

Ayr to Mauchline Branch
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Cronberry Cronberry Junction Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Glasgow South Western Line (GPK&AR) Cumnock Glasgow South Western Line (GPK&AR) Dumfries House Skares Ochiltree Belston Junction Rankinston Cairntable Halt Holehouse Junction Ayr & Dalmellington Rly Killoch Colliery and Washery Drongan Trabboch Weston Bridge Halt Glasgow South Western Line (GPK&AR) Mauchline Junction Glasgow South Western Line (GPK&AR) Mauchline Tarbolton Annbank Mossblown Junction Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Auchincruive Glasgow South Western Line (GPK&AR) Newton Junction Hawkhill Junction Ayr Ayr & Dalmellington Rly

History

This basic halt opened in 1927[3] or on 24 September 1928[4] and closed on 3 April 1950.[3][4] The nearby miners’ row was owned by the Cairntable Coal Co. and provided homes for workers at their nearby colliery.[5][6]

The site today

In 2012 the site has no remnants of the halt or trackbed and the Cairntable miners rows of Forty-eight apartment houses built in 1914 no longer exist, the last inhabitant having left in 1963.[7] There is a remembrance stone laid on the site of the former village.

Micro-history

The trains would deliver bread for the village shop when the snows were too bad for the delivery van.[8]

In 1947 a steam engine got stuck in one of the railway cuttings near the village and the men from the village and Littlemill Pit helped dig the train out of the snowdrift.[9]

References

Notes

1. Reid, Page 101
2. Reid, Page 103
3. Butt, Page 51
4. Lindsay, Part 2.1, Page 1
5. Cairntable Village Retrieved : 2012-11-12
6. Caintable Terraces. Retrieved : 2012-11-12
7. Cairntable Village Retrieved : 2012-11-12
8. Reid, Page 193
9. Reid, Page 104

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Lindsay, David M. E. (2002). G&SWR Register of Stations, Routes and Lines. G&SWR Society.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Reid, Donald L. (2012). The Lost Mining Villages of Doon Valley. Beith: D. L. Reid. ISBN 978-0-9566343-3-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Holehouse Junction Line and station closed		London, Midland and Scottish Railway Holehouse Branch		Rankinston Line and station closed