IBM
Location type
StationNames and dates
IBM Halt (1978-1983)IBM (1983-)
Station code: IBM National Rail ScotRail
Where: Inverclyde, Scotland
Open on the Inverclyde Lines.
Description
This is a single platform station which was originally private for the IBM factory in Greenock (in the Spango Valley to the west). The factory site has closed and even new businesses which moved in have left. Trains ceased calling at the station in 2018. The station became public in 1986.
Three quarters of a mile to the north east is the former station of Ravenscraig.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
09/12/2022
| Nearby stations Ravenscraig Branchton Gourock Drumfrochar Inverkip Fort Matilda Greenock West Upper Greenock Greenock (Lynedoch) Greenock Princes Pier [1st] Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] Greenock Central Greenock Cathcart Street [1st] Whinhill Cartsdyke | IBM Factory Dunrod Loop Quarry Quarry Clocherlee Quarry Quarry Quarry Ravenscraig-Gateside-Smithston Siding Overton Paper Mill Adams Boatyard Daff Glen Viaducts Tourist/other Ravenscraig Hospital McInroy^s Point Loch Thom Cloch Lighthouse |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1978 | Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway IBM Halt opened. |
| / /1983 | Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway IBM Halt renamed IBM. |
| 09/12/2018 | Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway Trains stop calling at IBM. |
