Barrhill railway station
Barrhill | |
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General information | |
Other names | Scottish Gaelic: Am Bàrr[1] |
Location | South Ayrshire |
Coordinates | 55°05′51″N 4°46′56″W / 55.0975°N 4.7822°W |
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[2] |
Barrhill railway station is a railway station serving 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. A passing loop 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.[2] The station was briefly closed between 7 February 1882 and 16 February 1882,[2] and between 12 April 1886 and 14 June 1886.[2]
The station features in the novel Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L Sayers, first published in 1931.
Services
The station has an irregular service (six trains per day each way) between Glasgow/Kilmarnock and Stranraer - some of the trains used to run in connection with the ferry service between Stranraer Harbour and Belfast, but no longer do so since the sailings were transferred to Cairnryan in late 2011.
Until December 2009 there was one through train each day to Carlisle and Newcastle (and two from there). These trains were withdrawn at the 2009 timetable change.
Sundays see three trains per day in each direction, to Glasgow via Kilwinning and to Stranraer.[3]
From the December 2015 timetable change, the service frequency was increased from six trains per day to nine on weekdays (every two hours each way) and to five each way on Sundays. However all northbound services now run to Kilmarnock - direct services to Glasgow via Paisley have been withdrawn. Two services continue to Glasgow via Kilmarnock & Dunlop on weekdays, but all Sunday trains now terminate at Ayr (where connections are available to Glasgow).[4]
Temporary closure August-September 2018
Ayr's old Station Hotel is extremely unsafe to be nearby, so platforms 3 and 4 south have been closed. This means that no trains run south of Ayr at the moment, as ScotRail have no access to Ayr Townhead depot, south of Ayr railway station. [5]
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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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.[6] 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
Notes
- ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- ^ a b c d Butt (1995), page 28
- ^ GB National Rail Timetable 2013-14, Table 218
- ^ Table 218 National Rail timetable, December 2016
- ^ https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/news/changes-services-between-glasgow-central-ayr-and-stranraer
- ^ Barrhill Signal Box History www.signalbox.org; Retrieved 2009-06-15
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.
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(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.
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