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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 775632
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/775632
NS24SW 52 2257 4231
See also NS24SW 36.00.
(Location cited as NS 225 423). Ardrossan (Montomerie Pier) Station, opened 1890 by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Rly. A two-platform terminal station with a 15-bay iron-framed wooden-clad building, originally with a glazed overall roof supported on lattice girders. Closed 1966 but still intact in 1974.
J R Hume 1976.
This station formed the terminus of the Ardrossan Harbour branch of the Caledonian Rly. It opened on 30 May 1890, closed on 1 January 1917, reopened on 1 February 1919, and was renamed Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier station on 2 June 1924. It officially closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968, the last train having run on 25 September 1967.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 June 1998.
R V J Butt 1995.
