Cairntable Halt railway station was a

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serving a rural district and the miners' row of forty-eight houses at the Cairntable Terraces,

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. The station was by opened as late as circa 1928 by the

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on the Holehouse Junction to

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line.

History

This basic halt opened in 1927Butt, Page 51 or on 24 September 1928Lindsay, Part 2.1, Page 1 and closed on 3 April 1950. The nearby miners’ row was owned by the Cairntable Coal Co. and provided homes for workers at their nearby colliery.

The site today

In 2012 the site has no remnants of the halt or trackbed and the Cairntable miners rows of Forty-eight apartment houses built in 1914 no longer exist, the last inhabitant having left in 1963. There is a remembrance stone laid on the site of the former village.

Micro-history

The trains would deliver bread for the village shop when the snows were too bad for the delivery van. In 1947 a steam engine got stuck in one of the railway cuttings near the village and the men from the village and Littlemill Pit helped dig the train out of the snowdrift.Reid, Page 104

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* * * {{end box Disused railway stations in East Ayrshire Former London, Midland and Scottish Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1927 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1950