Stevenston
Location type
StationName and dates
Stevenston (1840-)Station code: STV National Rail ScotRail
Where: North Ayrshire, Scotland
Opened on the Ardrossan and Johnstone Railway.
Open on the Kilwinning, Ardrossan and Largs.
Description
This is a two platform station. The original station buildings have not survived. The building on the up platform, dating from 1900, was of a style still represented by West Kilbride, although slightly different.
There was a goods yard on the north side of the station, approached from the east.
To the west of the station is a level crossing, on the south side of the line was Stevenston No 2 Signal Box. With the resignalling in advance of electrification it became first a gate box, in 1986, and then closed when replaced by the Paisley Signalling Centre.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
02/04/2021
Facilities
Bike rackUnstaffed
Shaking fistsThe Caledonian Railway and Glasgow and South Western Railway ran competing boat trains with connecting steamers from Glasgow to Brodick, with an 85 minute timing. David L Smith recounts, in his Tales of the Glasgow and South Western Railway, the trains 'would race side by side along the sandhills at Ardeer with the drivers shaking their fists at one another.' |
Chronology Dates
| 27/07/1840 | Ardrossan Railway Stevenston, Saltcoats [1st], Ardrossan Pier stations opened. |
| 06/04/1964 | Glasgow, Paisley Kilmarnock and Ayr RailwayArdrossan Railway Irvine (Byrehill Junction) to Stevenston (Dubbs Junction) closed to passengers. Ardrossan to Kilmarnock service via Crosshill withdrawn. |
| / /1970 | Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier and Ardrossan North to Stevenston lifted in the early 1970s. Access to the Ardrossan Refinery bitumen works at Ardrossan North is retained via the sidings from Ardrossan Town. |
