Irvine, Bank Street, Caledonian Railway Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Irvine, Bank Street, Caledonian Railway Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Irvine Station; Irvine Bank Street Station; Railway Station; Terminus; A736
Canmore ID 139808
Site Number NS33NW 62
NGR NS 32330 39080
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/139808
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Irvine
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cunninghame
- Former County Ayrshire
NS33NW 62 32330 39080
Sta. [NAT]
OS 1:10,560 map, 1897.
Not to be confused with (Glasgow and South-Western Rly.) Irvine, Montgomery Street, Station (NS 3162 3853), for which see NS33NW 59.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Architect: ns. 1921
Plans at Darley Hay Partnership, Ayr.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
This station was the terminal station of the Kilwinning-Irvine branch of the (former) Caledonian Rly. It was opened by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Rly. on 2 June 1890, closed on 1 January 1917 and reopened on 1 February 1919. It was renamed Irvine Bank Street station by the London, Midland and Scottish Rly. on 2 June 1924 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 28 July 1930.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 January 1999.
R V J Butt 1995.
