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Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway (G&PJR) was a railway company in Scotland. It opened in 1877 between Girvan and Challoch Junction, where it joined the Portpatrick Railway, which had already reached Stranraer from Castle Douglas. Portpat ...

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Barrhill railway station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

serving the village of Barrhill, South Ayrshire,

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. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayr to Stranraer section of the

Glasgow South Western Line The Glasgow South Western Line is a mainline railway in Scotland that runs from Glasgow to Kilmarnock, and then either via Dumfries, or Stranraer via Ayr, with a branch to East Kilbride. History The line was built by several railway compan ...

, south of Glasgow Central. A

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long is located here on what is otherwise a single track route.

History

The station was opened by the

on 5 October 1877.Butt (1995), page 28 The station was briefly closed between 7 February 1882 and 16 February 1882, and between 12 April 1886 and 14 June 1886. The station features in the novel Five Red Herrings by

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, 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.

Services

Pre-COVID

On Monday to Saturday, there is a regular two-hourly service to both Kilmarnock and Stranraer with a total of eight trains per day in each direction (with a four-hour gap in between trains in the Stranraer direction in the evening), two trains extend beyond Kilmarnock to Glasgow Central and four run the other way. On Sundays, there are five trains per day each way Stranraer and Ayr.

December 2021

Mon-Sat: There are 4 trains per day to both Kilmarnock and Stranraer, running approximately every 4 hours. One train extends to Glasgow Central and two run the other way. Sunday service remains the same.

Signalling

The small signal box that houses the

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operating the loop was installed in 1935 after its predecessor was destroyed by fire - it was originally situated further down the line at

Portpatrick Portpatrick is a village and civil parish in the historical county of Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located on the west coast of the Rhins of Galloway. The parish is about in length and in breadth, covering . History ...

but dismantled and moved to Barrhill after becoming redundant at its original location.Barrhill Signal Box History
www.signalbox.org; Retrieved 2009-06-15 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

Sources

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External links

Video and narration on Barrhill Railway Station.
{{Authority control Railway stations in South Ayrshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1877 SPT railway stations Railway stations served by ScotRail Former Glasgow and South Western Railway stations 1877 establishments in Scotland