The company at first adopted the standard track gauge for mineral lines of 4 ft 6 in, often referred to as Scotch gauge.
22.
This changed its nature from a purely mineral line and it became known, informally at first, as the Dunfermline and Charlestown Railway.
23.
The 1895 OS shows a colliery at Templeton near Earlston and another mineral line running up to a colliery at Bogside near Ellerslie in Kilmarnock.
24.
Moorswater was at the southern end of one of Cornwall's early railways, the Liskeard and Caradon Railway mineral line which opened in 1844.
25.
The old Mineral line railway station which was built in 1861 is now a store, and there is also a bridge remaining from this line.
26.
A narrow gauge mineral line ran over the main line to serve local quarries and the old bridge survives as part of a narrow access lane.
27.
On the 1923 OS mineral lines still run to collieries near Earlston, Nether Craig and Cockhill farm ( Fairlie ( Pit No . 3 ) ).
28.
In 1872 a mineral line was opened from Cronberry to Newton-on-Ayr with a branch from Annbank to Holehouse Junction, on the Dalmellington line.
29.
From 1914 to 1970 a triangular junction east of the station linked the mineral line from Astley Green Colliery north of the Bridgewater Canal to the main line.
30.
The W, M & CR at first adopted the standard track gauge for mineral lines of 4 ft 6 in, often referred to as Scotch gauge.
