PINWHERRY DIP - a runaway train
The story of a runaway train that yo-yoed through Pinwherry Station inspired a song "Pinwherry Dip" written and recorded by Dave Goulder.
In the days of steam engines sometimes the load was too heavy to pull up the hill from Girvan and so half the freight was taken up to Pinmore and then the engine would go and get the remaining wagons. One night in the 1890s the unattended wagons at Pinmore ranway and free-wheeled down through Pinwherry Station and up the Barrhill Bank on the other side where they came to a halt, only to roll back again through the station at speed and up Pinmore Bank on the other side. This was repeated five or six times as the train trundled backwards and forwards through Pinwherry Station leading a sleepy track inspector who was staying the night to exclaim it was “the busiest country station he had ever tried to sleep at – trains through the night every ten minutes!”
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