Drybridge railway station

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Drybridge
Drybridge station in early 2006
Location
Location	Drybridge
Area	Ayrshire
Operations
Original company	Kilmarnock and Troon Railway
Pre-grouping company	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
6 July 1812	Opened
3 March 1969	Closed permanently
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

Drybridge railway station was a railway station serving the village of Drybridge, North Ayrshire, Scotland.

[edit] History

The station was opened on 6 July 1812 by the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway.^[1] The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway took over management of the station on 16 July 1846,^[2] while it's successor, the Glasgow and South Western Railway, took over full ownership in 1899.^[3] The station closed on 3 March 1969.^[1]

Today Drybridge station has its platforms intact (although overgrown), and the station building is now a private residence. The line is still open as part of the Glasgow South Western Line known as the 'Burns Line'.

The village of 'Drybridge' is so named after the fact that most bridges up until the era of the railways were built over watercourses and were therefore 'wet bridges'.

Visible from the station is the only surviving standing stone on the mainland in North Ayrshire.

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b} Butt
2. ^ Awdry, page 84
3. ^ Stansfield, page 8

[edit] References

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. London: Guild Publishing.
• 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
Barassie		Glasgow and South Western Railway  Kilmarnock and Troon Railway		Gatehead Line open; station closed