the Caledonian Railway Working Timetable states of the Lylestone Siding that - This Siding will be worked by Up Trains only. It is controlled by a Staff Key which is kept in charge of the Signalman at Lissens Siding. When a train which is to work Lylestone Siding arrives at Lissens, it must be stopped at the signal Box, when the Engine will be detached, and the Brakesman in charge will see that the Train is secured by the Van Brake being hard on, and the Front wagons held by Sprags in their wheels. The Brakesman in charge will then get the Staff Key from the signalman, and go forward to Lylestone Siding with the Engine and any Wagons there may be for the Siding, and he will work the points as required. After the work is finished, and Sidings points properly set for the Main Line, the Engine will propel the Wagons taken from Lylestone Siding on the Up Line to Lissens, where they will be run into the Siding by gravitation. The Brakesman will return with the engine to Lissens, and will hand the Staff key back to the Signalman, after which the ordinary working will resume. Tyre burning facility A WW2 'Tyre Burning Facility' was located very near to Lissens Goods that may have provided war time traffic for the goods station. Later the site of the South Lissens Pottery, local intelligence has it that a munitions depot was located here and that the large number of tyres waiting to be processed were actually to camouflage the depot. Ruins of the facility are still (2014) located in one of the South Lissens Farm fields. The site today The row of three railway workers cottages survive as private residences and the loading dock is still a prominent structure in this otherwise somewhat featureless landscape near Lissens Moss. The railway fencing and gate survive as does the substantial road overbridge. The signalbox's old chimney partly remains as do the foundations and the cistern. References Notes Sources Wham, Alasdair (2013). ''Ayrshire's Forgotten Railways. A Walker's Guide'. Cranborne : Oakwood Press. . RAILSCOT on Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway Good's station site on navigable O.S. map External links Lissens Sidings Auchenmade Railway Station & Workers Cottages Archaeological sites in North Ayrshire History of North Ayrshire Demolished buildings and structures in Scotland Disused railway goods stations in Great Britain