connected to the Auchincruive or Whitletts Waggonway. A horse could haul between 5 and 7 coal waggons carrying 26 cwt each. The Craigie Waggonway reached as far as the rear of buildings that faced on to Content Street (named after a local farm) and on the OS map of 1857 a smithy is marked, possibly also indicating stables as both would be required for a horse draw line. The routes The line started at Craigie Pit No.1 that also had a road connection with the Braehead to Mainholm Road close to Dalmelling and then curved down past Craigie Pits Nos 2 and 3 before passing one of the Craigie House lodges and crossing the railway before terminating at Content Street. The route was nearly level and was not unduly encumbered by drifting sand from the dunes that lay further west. The waggonway and pits today Described as a 'Tram Road' on the OS maps the line was mostly on the level and no earthworks of any significance were required. Nothing survives at many of the various pits and associated spoil heaps, however a bridge crossed the Glasgow and South Western Railway line into Ayr close to the waggonway termination at Content Street and the remnants of this can be discerned. Micro-history Other contemporary waggonways existed locally such as the Auchincruive Waggonway and the nearby Holmiston Waggonway with sections of trackbed traceable on the south side of the River Ayr near the Holmiston lime kiln above Wallace's Heel Well. A very short waggonway appears to have existed at Wallacetown as far back as 1775. A short tramway existed at the nearby Ayr Sawmills that lay next to the River Ayr. The poet Robert Burns would have been familiar with the waggonways in Ayr however he never commented on them. See also Haytor Granite Tramway Ravenscraig and Jameston Railway Stevenston Canal Towerlands Tram Road Auchincruive Waggonway References Notes References Broad, Harry (1981). Rails to Ayr. 18th & 19th Century Coal Waggonways. Ayr Arch & Nat Hist Soc. Dunlop, Annie (1953). The Royal Burgh of Ayr. Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd. Wham, Alasdair (2013). Ayrshire's Forgotten Railways. Usk : Oakwood Press. . Economy of South Ayrshire Horse-drawn railways Transport in South Ayrshire History of South Ayrshire 1855 establishments in Scotland 1865 disestablishments in the United Kingdom 1855 in Scotland Rail transport in Scotland Coal mining in Scotland Closed railway lines in Scotland