Whinhill

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Whinhill (1990-)

Station code: WNL National Rail ScotRail
Where: Inverclyde, Scotland
Opened on the Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway.
Open on the Inverclyde Lines.

Description

This is a single platform station, the platform erected on the south side of the single track line. The station is immediately west of Cartsburn Tunnel.

The line was originally single track and a second line was added, through a second tunnel, to the south of the existing line. This westbound line was lifted. The platform is on the site of this lifted line and the disused single bore tunnel still exists, the portal of which can be seen from the station.

To the west, from Berryards Junction, the Overton Paper Mill was reached via a reversing spur. Just beyond this was Upper Greenock, a station which Whinhill effectively replaces.

Tags

Station

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
01/08/2020




Chronology Dates

  /  /1990Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
Whinhill station opened.
23/03/2003Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
A train carrying over 100 passengers has to come to a halt near Whinhill station when debris had been placed on the line. The driver, having detrained, was attacked with stones from above.

News items

18/01/2023Concerns for public safety after path was damaged by floods [Greenock Telegraph]