Lugton High railway station

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Lugton High
Location
Location	Lugton
Area	Ayrshire
Operations
Original company	Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-grouping company	Caledonian Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 May 1903	Opened as Lugton
1 January 1917	Closed
1 February 1919	Reopened
2 July 1924	Renamed Lugton High
4 July 1932	Closed to regular services
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For the station on the former Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway see Lugton railway station.

Lugton East railway station was a railway station serving the hamlet of Lugton, East Ayrshire, Scotland as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

[edit] History

The station opened on 1 May 1903 and was simply known as Lugton. 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, it was renamed Lugton High on 2 June 1924. The station closed to passengers on 4 July 1932.

[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
Giffen Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway  Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway		Uplawmoor Line and station closed