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| Sunset over Ailsa Craig (Alister Firth) |
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| The magnificent Galloway Hills |
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The Barrhill Community Rail Bus has been funded with contributions from the Ayrshire LEADER programme, Barrhill Community
Interest Company, Carrick Futures, South Ayrshire Council and SAYLSA.
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SAYLSA has a new forum for users of the Stranraer
line. We will endeavour to answer your queries, so please feel free to join us.
Click here for our forum
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Welcome to the official website of SAYLSA, the Community Rail Partnership for
Carrick & Wigtownshire, which was set up in 2007 to promote the rail link to and from the towns of Maybole, Girvan and
Stranraer and the surrounding districts of Carrick and Wigtownshire in south west Scotland.
The railway runs through some
of the most attractive scenery in Scotland and was built precisely because of the emergence of ferry services at the shortest
crossing point between the British mainland and Ireland. The route was opened in October 1877, providing a new link
between Glasgow and Belfast.
Click this link for a history of the line.
SAYLSA
acts as a community rail partnership, having been formed by people from the local community keen to play a part in promoting
the line, its facilities and its train services to ensure its future following Stena's relocation of their ferry services
to Loch Ryan Port on Monday November 21 2011, by-passing Stranraer and the rail terminus there altogether.
SAYLSA believes there
are freight and other opportunities beyond simply serving existing ferry passengers, especially tourism. Like the famous Settle
to Carlisle Railway in northern England, the Stranraer to Ayr line runs through equally spectacular scenery, some of the most
beautiful, yet relatively undiscovered, in Scotland.
The line retains its semaphore signalling and is one of the last in the UK to continue to operate
token block working.
We would encourage you to travel this amazing railway and enjoy the many local places of interest here.
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