Plantation Halt railway station
# Plantation Halt railway station

Plantation Halt was a railway station situated near the road crossing on the A83 at a small plantation that is no longer extant. Argyll and Bute.

The Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway was a 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) narrow gauge railway in Kintyre, Scotland, between the towns of Campbeltown and Machrihanish.

## History

The station had no platforms and was located at a site where the train had to slow before crossing the A83 road running from Stewarton to Campbeltown.

Upgraded from a coal-carrying mineral line and opened for passenger traffic in 1906, the railway did not have stations as such, just places where the train halted to pick up passengers. Many of the passengers were day trippers from Glasgow as a turbine steamer would bring passengers to Campbeltown early enough to catch a train to Machrihanish and allow a return journey all in one day.

Only three other passenger-carrying lines in the UK operated on the same gauge, all of them in Wales - the Corris Railway, the short-lived Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway and the Talyllyn Railway.

| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station |
| - | - | - |
| Campbeltown | Campbeltown to Machrihanish Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway | Moss Road Halt |
