Saltcoats North railway station

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Saltcoats North
A view from the site of Saltcoats North in 2006
Location
Location	Saltcoats
Area	Ayrshire
Operations
Original company	Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-grouping company	Caledonian Railway
Platforms	2
History


3 September 1888	Opened as Saltcoats
1 January 1917	Closed
1 February 1919	Reopened
2 July 1924	Renamed Saltcoats North
4 July 1932	Closed to regular services
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

For the station on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway see Saltcoats railway station.

Saltcoats North railway station was a railway station serving the town of Saltcoats, 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 Saltcoats. 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 Saltcoats North on 2 June 1924. The station closed to passengers on 4 July 1932, however it was reopened for a time within two years when a special return fare price was introduced. The line saw use for trains going to Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier and the Ardrossan Shell Mex plant until 1968.

Today the site of Saltcoats North is occupied by a housing estate. Most of the trackbed between the station and Stevenston Moorpark station has been filled in and converted into a pathway signposted as 'Old Caley Line'. Several road bridges that crossed the line here are still in existent, though are now partially buried in the ground (see photo). A large bridge that carried the railway over Canal Street has been partially rebuilt with a new, narrower footbridge crossing the road. The foundations of the original bridge still hold up the north side of the footbridge.

[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.