page_title: Ravenscraig and Jameston Railway
section_title: The Railway and quarries today
hierarchical_section_title: Ravenscraig and Jameston Railway / The Railway and quarries today
caption_attribution_description: English: The Blue Waters at Ravenscraig Quarry with Mare's tail and Pondweed, North Lissens, Dalry, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
context_page_description: The Ravenscraig and Jameston Railway was a narrow gauge freight or mineral railway or 'Bogey line' that ran the 1.25 miles between two freestone quarries near Dalry, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
context_section_description: The final section of embankments leading to Ravenscraig Quarry are largely untouched whilst they have been ploughed out in the field facing South Lissens Farm, but a section of cutting remains below South Lissens Farm and the trackbed survives as a farm track as far as the site of the infilled Jameston Quarry. Ravenscraig Quarry is now flooded but otherwise unchanged and is known locally as the 'Blue Waters' or 'Blue Hole' because the light shining off the dark vertical faces of the quarry workings once embued the floodwater with a striking blue colour. The site was at one time a popular swimming hole however a drowning incident ended that and although rich in water plants such as the marestail (Hippuris) and pondweeds (Potamogeton the water has lost its blue colour and serves as an unofficial wildlife preserve. No rails or sleepers remain at the site.
caption: Ravenscraig Quarry or the 'Blue Water'
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