Campbeltown railway station

Campbeltown was a railway station in the town of Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, serving the town and ferry terminal. 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. Plantation Halt was the next stop on the line.History of the line. Retrieved : 2012-09-30

History The station on Hall Street had no platforms and only a run round loop for the locomotive between the Old and New Quays.RCAHMS Campbeltown station Retrieved : 2012-09-30OS Map 1914 Retrieved : 2012-09-30 Upgraded from a coal carrying mineral line 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.Railway Details Retrieved : 2012-09-30

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.

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Further reading Farr, A. D. (1967). The Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway The Oakwood Press. Macmillan, Nigel S.C. (1970). The Campbeltown & Machrihanish Light Railway. Newton Abbot : David & Charles.

External links Campbeltown and Machrahanish Railway History of the Campbeltown and Machrahanish