Bogside Moor Halt railway station

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Bogside Moor Halt
Location
Location	Near Irvine
Area	Ayrshire
Operations
Original company	Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-grouping company	Caledonian Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 January 1917	Closed
1 February 1919	Reopened
2 July 1924	Renamed Bogside Moor Halt
28 July 1930	Closed to regular services
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For the station on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway see Bogside railway station.

Bogside Moor Halt railway station was a railway station near the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

[edit] History

Located adjacent to the Cadgers Racecourse on the town moor, this station was open for restricted used by 1893 as Bogside Platform. It was renamed Bogside and opened to the general public sometime before September 1909. The station 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 it was renamed Bogside Moor Halt on 2 June 1924. Unusually, trains only called at this station upon request. The station closed to passengers on 28 July 1930, but the line saw use for freight trains going to Irvine until 1939.

No trace of this station exists today.

[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
Irvine Bank Street Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway  Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway		Kilwinning East Line and station closed