Machrihanish Farm Halt railway station explained

Machrihanish Farm Halt
Status:Disused
Borough:Machrihanish, Argyll and Bute
Country:Scotland
Coordinates:55.424°N -5.7089°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:None
Original:Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway
Years:16 August 1906
Events:Station opened
Years2:November 1931
Events2:Station closed
Years3:January 1932
Events3:Station re-opened
Years4:May 1932
Events4:Station closed to passengers
Years5:1934
Events5:Track lifted

Machrihanish Farm Halt was a railway station situated at the road crossing near East Trodigal Farm[1] and close to Machrihanish, Argyll and Bute. The Argyll Colliery with its rail connection was nearby. The Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway was a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge railway in Kintyre, Scotland, between the towns of Campbeltown and Machrihanish.

History

The station had no platforms and was located at a site where the train had to slow before crossing the road.[2]

Upgraded from a coal carrying mineral lined and opened for passenger traffic in 1906, the railway did not have stations as such, just places where the train halted to pick up passengers. Many of the passengers were day trippers from Glasgow as a turbine steamer would bring passengers to Campbeltown early enough to catch a train to Machrihanish and allow a return journey all in one day.[3]

Only three other passenger-carrying lines in the UK operated on the same gauge, all of them in Wales - the Corris Railway, the short-lived Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway and the Talyllyn Railway.

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Notes and References

  1. http://maps.nls.uk/os/view/?sid=74400713#sid=74400713&zoom=6&lat=6797.90092&lon=2909&layers=BT OS One-inch 1924
  2. http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch-2nd-and-later/view/?jp2=82865994#jp2=82865994&zoom=6&lat=10734&lon=10466&layers=BT OS Map 1938
  3. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Railway_Cutting_in_Campbeltown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_618505.jpg Railway Details