Giffen railway station

[3] The station had large concrete letters spelling out the name with, oddly, a triskelion or Isle of Man symbol set between the two words.

[5] A footpath on old OS maps as running from the nearby Nettlehirst house down to the station and then to the Gatend and South Barr road via an overbridge.

A feature of WWII was the use of the line for what locals called the night time 'Ghost Trains' that carried injured service personnel to the Glasgow hospitals from where they had been landed at the port of Ardrossan.

In 1907 the Caledonian Railway Working Timetable (WTT) states that in relation to the nearby Gree Goods station : Brakesmen of Trains having work to do at this place must get the Key from him and hand it in on arrival at Giffen to the Station Master, who will return it by first train.

The Signalman at Lugton Station Box will signal the train forward as per clause (b) of Block telegraph Regulations.

Old sign for munitions traffic operations