The Kilmarnock's Heritage Railway Trust (KHRT) has been granted a lease at the Old Man's Cabin in Howard Park for 25 years.
The KHRT, which was initially formed in 2014 to bring a number of redundant railway offices and rooms into community use, proposed to turn the Old Man's Cabin into a social enterprise cafe to increase the services on offer within the area as well as provide employment opportunities for those affected by mental wellbeing.
The Old Man's Cabin sits on the raised section of the park next to Mews Lane and was originally intended as a place for veterans to meet. Before falling into disrepair, the facility was used as changing rooms for football teams when the park still had a full-size pitch.
