A passing loop 19 chains (380 metres) long is located here on what is otherwise a single track route.

This was caused by the adjacent hotel building that was found to be structurally unsound, which was then subsequently secured and services then resumed.

The Sunday service is broadly the same except all trains terminate at Ayr heading northbound and are every 2 hours instead.

The small signal box that houses the lever frame operating the loop was installed in 1935 after its predecessor was destroyed by fire - it was originally situated further down the line at Portpatrick but dismantled and moved to Barrhill after becoming redundant at its original location.

[5] The box only houses the frame however - the tablet instruments and block bells are in the main station building, which allows one railman to act as both stationmaster and signaller.