Barrhill railway station
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History
The station was opened by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway on 5 October 1877.[1] The station was briefly closed between 7 February 1882 and 16 February 1882,[1] and between 12 April 1886 and 14 June 1886.[1]
The station features in the novel Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L Sayers, first published in 1931.
The line that runs through Barrhill station was temporarily closed between August and November 2018 due to the closures of platform 3 and 4 of Ayr station. This was caused by the adjacent hotel building that was found to be structurally unsound, which was then subsequently secured and services then resumed.[2]
Services
7 days a week, There is 5 trains per day to Stranraer and 5 trains per day to Ayr which run to an irregular 2 to 4 hour frequency (2 of which extend to Kilmarnock with 1 extending onwards to Glasgow). The Sunday service is broadly the same except all trains terminate at Ayr heading northbound and are every 2 hours instead.
| Preceding station | National Rail National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Stranraer | style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | ScotRail Glasgow South Western Line |
style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Girvan |
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| 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.[3] The box only houses the frame however - the tablet instruments and block bells are in the main station building, which allows one railman to act as both stationmaster and signaller.
References
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- ↑ a b c Butt (1995), page 28
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