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This line ran in the Mull of Kintyre from Campbeltown to Machrihanish. Campbeltown is a port town and Machrihanish is a village with a large airfield just to the north. Coal mining once took place in the viscinity of Trodigal and Drumlemble and a canal (which took a more northerly course than the railway) used to run from here to Campbeltown.
The line was a 2 foot 3 inches gauge railway. Initially it ran from Machrihanish Colliery (Kilkivan, Drumlemble, Argyll Colliery) to a coal depot and pier in Campbeltown. It was extended westwards to Machrihanish. The line did not have stations per se, but rather 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.
