Muirkirk railway station

The station opened on 9 August 1848 as the terminus of a 10 miles 17 chains (16.4 km) longbranch line running from Auchinleck on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway's (GPK&AR) Cumnock extension.

[3] Initially the station was a very modest affair, the station building was positioned alongside a level crossing over Furnace Road, the single track line continued on to service some lime kilns.

Slightly to the north of the crossing two lines ran into Muirkirk Ironworks the main source of freight in the area.

[c][8] The Caledonian Railway opened a line for freight from Douglas, South Lanarkshire to make an end-on connection slightly to the east of the station on 1 January 1873.

[12] A larger station building had been built and there were two platforms, one each side of the now double track, connected with a footbridge, The goods yard had been extended and the engine shed was now four track with a larger turntable.

[19] Services were withdrawn from Lanark, and the station closed to passengers on 5 October 1964, a casualty of the programme of closures advocated by the Beeching Report.