Auchenmade Railway Station

Auchenmade railway station was a railway station approximately three miles north-east of Kilwinning on the B707, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It served the hamlet of Auchentiber and the surrounding rural area as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. The station was 6. 75 miles from the Lugton East Junction. InfrastructureThe OS maps of 1896 and 1910 show a substantial infrastructure with a double track mainline and four sidings running off to a loading dock and a goods shed with a crane, a signal box at the far end of the southern end of the eastern platform, signal posts, weighing machine, pedestrian overbridge and several platform buildings. In 1946 the main platform buildings were still substantially intact. Until around 1909 the Auchenmade Quarry and Brickworks company operated a private siding here. The old clay quarry near South Auchenmade Farm is at now flooded and little evidence of the brickworks and associated railway sidings remains. Lissens Goods was the next railway site, a goods station, down the line towards Ardrossan, supervised by staff at Auchenmade Station and closed on 30 March 1953. Railway workers cottages, similar to those at Auchenmade, still survive at Lissens. The sidings operated at Lylestone Quarry were supervised by staff from Auchenmade Station. Goods trains ran along this line until 30 March 1953, however in 1958 the sidings were still present. HistoryThe station opened on 3 September 1888. It closed between 1 January 1917 and 2 March 1919 due to wartime economy, and closed permanently on 4 July 1932. Boat trains to Ardrossan ran along this line until 1939.

Auchenmade railway station was a railway station approximately three miles north-east of Kilwinning on the B707, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It served the hamlet of Auchentiber and the surrounding rural area as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. The station was 6. 75 miles from the Lugton East Junction. InfrastructureThe OS maps of 1896 and 1910 show a substantial infrastructure with a double track mainline and four sidings running off to a loading dock and a goods shed with a crane, a signal box at the far end of the southern end of the eastern platform, signal posts, weighing machine, pedestrian overbridge and several platform buildings. In 1946 the main platform buildings were still substantially intact. Until around 1909 the Auchenmade Quarry and Brickworks company operated a private siding here. The old clay quarry near South Auchenmade Farm is at now flooded and little evidence of the brickworks and associated railway sidings remains. Lissens Goods was the next railway site, a goods station, down the line towards Ardrossan, supervised by staff at Auchenmade Station and closed on 30 March 1953. Railway workers cottages, similar to those at Auchenmade, still survive at Lissens. The sidings operated at Lylestone Quarry were supervised by staff from Auchenmade Station. Goods trains ran along this line until 30 March 1953, however in 1958 the sidings were still present. HistoryThe station opened on 3 September 1888. It closed between 1 January 1917 and 2 March 1919 due to wartime economy, and closed permanently on 4 July 1932. Boat trains to Ardrossan ran along this line until 1939.