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Irvine, New Street, Irvine Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Irvine, New Street, Irvine Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) G & Swr Station; Harbour Road; Montgomery Street; Railway Station
Canmore ID 135969
Site Number NS33NW 59
NGR NS 31639 38538
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/135969
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Dundonald (Cunninghame)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cunninghame
- Former County Ayrshire
NS33NW 59 31639 38538
Sta [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1991.
Not to be confused with Irvine, Bank Street, Caledonian Rly Station (NS 3234 3908), for which see NS33NW 62.
(Location cited as NS 316 385). Irvine Station, opened 1839 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Rly. A two-platform through station. The line is on a viaduct, with the platform buildings entered from the railway at first-floor level. The main offices are on the down side, in a handsome two-storey, coursed-rubble buiulding on an L plan, and there isa smaller stone building of similar construction on the up platform. Both platforms have awnings.
J R Hume 1976.
This intermediate station on the Glasgow - Ayr (main) line of the former Glasgow and South Western Rly was opened by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Rly on 5 August 1839. It remains in regular passenger use as part of the (electrified) Glasgow suburban system.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 November 1998.
R V J Butt 1995.
Irvine Station [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, May 2010.
