Barassie railway station

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General information
Other names	Template:Lang-gd
Location	South Ayrshire
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BSS
Key dates
5 August 1839	Opened

Barassie railway station is a railway station serving Barassie, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.

History

The station with four platforms in 1974

The station was originally opened on 5 August 1839 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. At one point a halt existed nearby serving Barassie Workshops, however it was closed by July 1926.

Barassie station originally had four platforms, two of which were on the former Kilmarnock and Troon Railway line from Kilmarnock. These platforms went out of use after the local passenger service over the branch was withdrawn by British Rail on 3 March 1969. They are now derelict & fenced off, but the two platforms on the Ayr line are still operational today. Barassie was a staffed station until the line was electrified in 1986, but the main buildings have since been demolished and there are now only waiting shelters in use on each platform.

South of the station, there are a number of active engineers sidings that occupy the alignment of the original 1839 GPK&AR route southwards. As first built, this bypassed Troon to the east by around half a mile, leaving travellers with an inconvenient journey by coach or on foot from the town centre to the initial passenger station. It wasn't until 1892 that this problem was finally remedied by the Glasgow and South Western Railway, who opened a new deviation line and passenger station that was much better sited for the town. This line (known as the Troon Loop) is now the only one in use, as the its predecessor was closed to through traffic in 1966 and subsequently lifted at its southern end. The former K&TR line to Troon (Harbour) has also disappeared, closing to all traffic in 1973.

Passenger services over the Kilmarnock branch were subsequently reinstated in May 1975, when the twice-daily Stranraer Harbour - London Euston boat trains were diverted over the route. However the branch platforms were not reopened (as noted above) as the services concerned ran non-stop between Kilmarnock & Ayr. As a consequence of this, the current (more frequent) Kilmarnock - Ayr - Girvan DMU service cannot call here. The branch has also been singled, with control shared between the West of Scotland Signalling Centre in Glasgow (which supervises the entire Glasgow - Ayr route) and Kilmarnock PSB.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Troon		Abellio ScotRail Ayrshire Coast Line		Irvine
		Abellio ScotRail Glasgow South Western Line		Kilmarnock or Irvine
	Historical railways
Monkton Line open; station closed		Glasgow and South Western Railway Troon Loop Line		Troon Line closed; station open

December 2013 services

Mondays-Fridays : Two trains per hour each way (with peak hour extras), to Glasgow and Ayr. On Saturdays only this rises to three per hour each way.

Evenings and Sundays see an hourly service in each direction.

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Stansfield, G. (1999). Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways. Ochiltree: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 1-8403-3077-5.

External links

• Railscot - Barassie
• Canmore Site Record for Barassie Station

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Troon		ScotRail Ayrshire Coast Line		Irvine
	Historical railways
Troon (new)		Glasgow and South Western Railway Troon Loop Line		Connection with GPK&AR
Troon (old) Line and station closed		Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway		Gailes Line open; station closed
Troon (Harbour) Line and station closed		Glasgow and South Western Railway Kilmarnock and Troon Railway		Drybridge Line open; station closed