Alloway railway station

Alloway
The site of Alloway looking west in 2008
Location	Alloway, South Ayrshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°25′43″N 4°38′08″W / 55.4285°N 4.6355°W / 55.4285; -4.6355Coordinates: 55°25′43″N 4°38′08″W / 55.4285°N 4.6355°W / 55.4285; -4.6355
Grid reference	NS332181
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Maidens and Dunure Light Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
17 May 1906	Opened
1 December 1930	Closed
4 July 1932	Re-opened
1 June 1933	Closed
1968	Line closed and lifted

Alloway railway station was a railway station serving the village of Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was part of the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway.

History[]

The station opened on 17 May 1906.^[1] It closed on 1 December 1930 and reopened on 4 July 1932 when a holiday camp was opened in the Heads of Ayr,^[1][2] however it closed again on 31 May 1933.^[2]

Despite being closed the station site was host to two LMS caravans from 1933 to 1939.^[3]

Although the line through the station reopened again in the summer of 1947 to coincide with the opening of a new Heads of Ayr station serving the newly opened Butlins, this only served the camp and Alloway station did not reopen.^[4] The line through the station closed for the final time on 14 September 1968.^[2]

References[]

Notes[]

Sources[]

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
• 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.
• Station on navigable O.S. map
• Love, Dane (2003). Ayr Past & Present, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Stroud. ISBN 0-7509-3257-0.
• McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
• Article in British Railway Journal No 8 Summer 1985 Wild Swan Publications

Further reading[]

• David McConnell and Stuart Rankin Rails to Turnberry and Heads of Ayr. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-699-3.