Disused railway lines and closed stations in South Ayrshire

42 miles of disused railway
32 closed stations
9 stations open today
13 named lost lines

South Ayrshire has 42 miles of disused railway and 32 closed stations, against 9 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.6 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway, with 15 miles of its route inside South Ayrshire.

See South 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 42 miles of lost railway in South Ayrshire break down as 33 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 7.6 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 2.1 miles with track still in place but no trains. 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 South Ayrshire

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

Line	Miles in county
Maidens and Dunure Light Railway	15
Coylton Branch	3.1
Prestwick and Annbank Branch	3.0
Waterside Branch	1.9
Burton cycle track	1.7
Ayr Motive Power Depot	1.6
Troon Harbour Branch	1.4
Fairlie Branch	0.9
Troon Avoiding Line	0.9
Troon Harbour Loop	0.6
Kilmarnock & Troon	0.5
Girvan Junction to Girvan Depot Line	0.4
Dunure Light Railway	0.4

Closed railway stations in South Ayrshire

All 32 closed and former stations in South 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 South Ayrshire

9 stations in South Ayrshire still have a train service. The busiest are Ayr (795,560 a year), Troon (498,042 a year), Prestwick Town (340,592 a year), Barassie (154,888 a year) and Prestwick International Airport (85,954 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

East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway 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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