Barrhill railway station

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General information
Other names	Scottish Gaelic: Am Bàrr
Location	South Ayrshire
Coordinates	55.0975°N 4.7822°W / 55.0975; -4.7822
Owned by	Network Rail
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BRL
History
Original company	Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
5 October 1877	Opened

Barrhill railway station is a railway station serving the village of Barrhill, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Ayr to Stranraer section of the Glasgow South Western Line, 74 miles (119 km) south of Glasgow Central. A passing loop 19 chains (380 m) long is located here on what is otherwise a single track route.

History

The station was opened by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway on 5 October 1877. The station was briefly closed between 7 February 1882 and 16 February 1882, and between 12 April 1886 and 14 June 1886.

The station features in the novel Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L Sayers, first published in 1931.

Services

August 2020

Monday to Saturdays: There is a regular 2 hourly service to both Kilmarnock and Stranraer with a total of 8 trains per day in each direction(With a 4-hour gap in between trains in the Stranraer direction in the evening), 2 trains extend beyond Kilmarnock to Glasgow Central and 4 run the other way.

On Sundays, There are 5 trains per day each way Stranraer and Ayr.

Temporary closure (August–November 2018)

Ayr's old Station Hotel was found to be structurally unsound, so platforms 3 and 4 at Ayr were closed. This resulted in no trains being allowed to run south of Ayr, as well as ScotRail not being able to access Ayr Townhead depot to the south of Ayr railway station. A minibus operated from the station as the normal replacement buses were unable to reach the station.

November 2018

All Stranraer services are now running, calling at the usual stations but Girvan–Ayr services are still operated by replacement buses.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Stranraer		Abellio ScotRail Glasgow South Western Line		Girvan
	Historical railways
Glenwhilly Line open, station closed		Glasgow and South Western Railway Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway		Pinwherry Line open; station closed

Signalling

The small signal box that houses the lever frame operating the loop was installed in 1935 after its predecessor was destroyed by fire - it was originally situated further down the line at Portpatrick but dismantled and moved to Barrhill after becoming redundant at its original location. The box only houses the frame however - the tablet instruments and block bells are located in the main station building, which allows one railman to act as both stationmaster and signaller.

References

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

External links

• Video and narration on Barrhill Railway Station.