Disused railway lines and closed stations in East Ayrshire

157 miles of disused railway
32 closed stations
6 stations open today
27 named lost lines

East Ayrshire has 157 miles of disused railway and 32 closed stations, against 6 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 5.3 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Annbank and Cronberry Line, with 11 miles of its route inside East Ayrshire.

See East Ayrshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 157 miles of lost railway in East Ayrshire break down as 136 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 11 miles with track still in place but no trains and 9.5 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in East Ayrshire

27 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside East Ayrshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Annbank and Cronberry Line	11
Darvel and Strathaven Branch	9.7
Waterside Branch	9.6
Muirkirk Branch	7.3
Holehouse Branch	5.8
Gatehead and Hurlford Branch	3.9
Douglas and Muirkirk Branch	3.6
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway	3.0
Dalmellington Branch	2.5
Dalry and Kilmarnock Branch	2.4
Coylton Branch	1.9
The Chris Hoy Cycle Way	1.7
Beoch Tramway (new route)	1.5
Catrine Branch	1.3
Mayfield Branch	0.9
Crosshouse to Irvine Line	0.9
Giffen Branch	0.9
Annandale Colliery	0.7
Muirkirk Ironworks	0.7
Beoch Tramway (old route)	0.6
Polquharn Colliery	0.6
Fairlie Branch	0.5
Clay Tramway	0.4
Woodhill Colliery	0.4
Grasshill Pit	0.4
Caprington Colliery	0.3
Woodhill Colliery No14 Pit	0.3

Closed railway stations in East Ayrshire

All 32 closed and former stations in East Ayrshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in East Ayrshire

6 stations in East Ayrshire still have a train service. The busiest are Kilmarnock (467,114 a year), Stewarton (248,494 a year), Kilmaurs (82,350 a year), Dunlop (76,002 a year) and Auchinleck (64,852 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

South Lanarkshire, East Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Dumfries and Galloway, North Lanarkshire and Argyll and Bute.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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