Plantation Halt railway station

Plantation Halt
Location
Place Campbeltown
Area Argyll and Bute
Coordinates 55°25′20″N 5°37′59″W / 55.4223°N 5.6330°W / 55.4223; -5.6330Coordinates: 55°25′20″N 5°37′59″W / 55.4223°N 5.6330°W / 55.4223; -5.6330
Grid reference NR7019220276
Operations
Original company Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway
Platforms None
History
16 August 1906[1] Station opened
November 1931[1] Station closed
January 1932[1] Station re-opened
May 1932[1] Station closed to passengers
1934 Track lifted
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Plantation Halt was a railway station situated near the road crossing on the A83 at a small plantation that is no longer extant.[2] Argyll and Bute.

The Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway was a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge railway in Kintyre, Scotland, between the towns of Campbeltown and Machrihanish.

History

The station had no platforms and was located at a site where the train had to slow before crossing the A83 road running from Stewarton to Campbeltown.[3]

Upgraded from a coal carrying mineral lined and opened for passenger traffic in 1906, the railway did not have stations as such, just places where the train halted to pick up passengers. Many of the passengers were day trippers from Glasgow as a turbine steamer would bring passengers to Campbeltown early enough to catch a train to Machrihanish and allow a return journey all in one day.[4]

Only three other passenger-carrying lines in the UK operated on the same gauge, all of them in Wales - the Corris Railway, the short-lived Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway and the Talyllyn Railway.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Campbeltown   Campbeltown to Machrihanish
Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway		   Moss Road Halt

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 3 4 Butt 1995, p. 186.
  2. ↑ OS One-inch 1924 Retrieved : 2012-10-01
  3. ↑ OS Map 1938 Retrieved : 2012-10-01
  4. ↑ Railway Details Retrieved : 2012-09-30

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