A 380 about to depart Largs for Glasgow on 22/10/2016. The second platform must be used in the morning only when there are two departures which happen too close together to allow time for a service train to come in to form one of them. That's not particularly close, but it's a long single track section to Saltcoats which limits frequency. Now if the parallel freight-only line from Hunterston to the junction were electrified and opened up to passengers, and second platforms built at West Kilbride and Ardrossan South Beach, they could just manage half-hourly ...
Location: Largs
Original line: Largs Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
Photographer: David Panton
Contact photographer: David Panton
Date: 22/10/2016
Image number: 57024