Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier railway station

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Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier
Location
Place	Ardrossan
County	Ayrshire
Operations
Original company	Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-grouping company	Caledonian Railway
Platforms	2
History
30 May 1890	Opened as Ardrossan Pier
1 January 1917	Closed
1 February 1919	Reopened
2 July 1924	Renamed Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier
6 May 1968	Closed
Disused railway stations in Scotland
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D-F G H-J K-L M-O P-R S T-Z

Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier railway station was a railway station serving the town of Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

[edit] History

The station opened on 30 May 1890 as Ardrossan Pier. It closed on 1 January 1917 due to wartime economy, reopened 1 February 1919, and upon the grouping of the L&AR into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, the station was renamed Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier on 2 June 1924. It officially closed to passengers on 6 May 1968, although the last train ran on 25 September 1967. This station was the last to close on this line in Ayrshire, the rest all having been officially closed by 1932.

Today Montgomerie Pier is the site of private flats overlooking the Ardrossan Marina.

[edit] References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford.
• Stansfield, G. (1999). Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways, Stenlake Publishing, Catrine.

Preceding station	Historical Railways			Following station
Terminus		Caledonian Railway  Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway		Ardrossan North Line and station closed