Kilwinning East railway station

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Kilwinning East
Location
Location	Kilwinning
Area	Ayrshire
Operations
Original company	Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-grouping company	Caledonian Railway
Platforms	3
History
3 September 1888	Opened as Kilwinning
1 January 1917	Closed
1 February 1919	Reopened
2 July 1924	Renamed Kilwinning East
4 July 1932	Closed to regular services
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For the station on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway see Kilwinning railway station.

Kilwinning East railway station was a railway station serving the town of Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

[edit] History

The station opened on 3 September 1888 and was simply known as Kilwinning. 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 Kilwinning East on 2 June 1924. The station closed permanently to regular passenger traffic on 4 July 1932.

Today there is no trace of this station, and the site is occupied by Caley House (named after L&AR owners Caledonian Railway) and the Cornerstone Church. A large viaduct at the extreme north of the town is the only physical reminder that Kilwinning was once served by this line.

[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
Stevenston Moorpark Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway  Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway		Auchenmade Line and station closed
Bogside Moor Halt Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway  Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway