Drumlemble Halt railway station

Drumlemble Halt
Location
Area Argyll and Bute
Coordinates 55°25′13″N 5°41′01″W / 55.4204°N 5.6835°W / 55.4204; -5.6835Coordinates: 55°25′13″N 5°41′01″W / 55.4204°N 5.6835°W / 55.4204; -5.6835
Grid reference NR6698720239
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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Drumlemble Halt was a railway station situated at the road crossing near East Drumlemble Farm[2] on a lane to Lochsanish Farm, Argyll and Bute.

The village of Drumlemble is approximately 4 miles from the nearest town, Campbeltown, on the B843. 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 lane.[3] A shelter was provided however this was often the subject of vandalism.[4]

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.[5]

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
Lintmill Halt   Campbeltown to Machrihanish
Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway		   Machrihanish Farm Halt

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 3 4 Butt 1995, p. 83.
  2. ↑ OS One-inch 1924 Retrieved : 2012-10-01
  3. ↑ OS Map 1938 Retrieved : 2012-10-01
  4. ↑ Wham, Page 119
  5. ↑ Railway Details Retrieved : 2012-09-30

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