Ravenscraig
Location type
StationName and dates
Ravenscraig (1865-1944)Opened on the Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station on the east side of the line, with a siding opposite approached from the Wemyss Bay direction.
Ravenscraig Farm was to the south west.
Today Branchton station is not far to the north east and IBM is to the south west.
Tags
StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
04/08/2018
| Nearby stations Branchton IBM Drumfrochar Fort Matilda Gourock Greenock West Upper Greenock Greenock Princes Pier [1st] Greenock (Lynedoch) Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] Greenock Central Greenock Cathcart Street [1st] Whinhill Cartsdyke Inverkip | Ravenscraig-Gateside-Smithston Siding IBM Factory Adams Boatyard Overton Paper Mill Lyle Hill Monument Scottish Concrete Yard Merino Mill Newton Street Tunnel Orangefield Tunnel Royal Navy Torpedo Factory [Greenock] Dunrod Loop Wellington Street Catch Points Tourist/other Ravenscraig Hospital Gourock Bay Gourock Pier |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 15/05/1865 | Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway Line opened from Port Glasgow through southern Greenock to Wemyss Bay. Stations at Upper Greenock, Ravenscraig, Inverkip and Wemyss Bay. |
| / /1944 | Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway Ravenscraig closed. |
