This signal box took a little finding! Apart from its

remote location in the rolling hills north of Girvan it takes its name from the grand Kilkerran House some three miles away. This is despite that the actual signal box and, until it closed in 1965, station is actually situated in the village of Ruglen. Naming a station or a crossing after the local landed gentry's residence was common practice in Victorian times and usually acted as a sweetener to the them who's land the railway was going to pass through. The signal box is a Glasgow and South Western structure erected in 1895 to replace two previous boxes at the same location.