RailwaysWith the coming of the railway in 1850 Cumnock Railway Station was opened on the Barrhill on 20th May that year. With the line extended to link with that from Dumfries the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Company merged with the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway Company to form the Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company on 28th October 1850. Cumnock Railway Station closed in the Beeching cuts of 6th December 1965
Cumnock New Station on the Ayr and Cumnock line was opened in 1874 and was located near Glaisnock Street where George McTurk Court now stands. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1951 and the line closed and was lifted in 1964.
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