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The decision has been made due to heavy flooding on the track.
(Permalink) Flooding Kilwinning Largs |
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ScotRail is adding more seats for customers travelling to the Largs Viking Festival over the next two weekends.
(Permalink) Largs Largs Viking Festival ScotRail  Largs: Largs Community Garden looking north in June 2021. Sometime Platform 2 on the left, with the high wall built on the edge of Platform 1 so the platform is behind and now a walkway to Morrison's. The bu ...  Largs: A Largs to Glasgow service is about to set off on 22 May 2019. I don't know what those people were doing on Platform 1 as the next train wasn't due there until the following morning. Mind you, I suppo ... |
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There will be no trains to and from Largs today, Sunday March 12. Track maintenance is taking place between Largs and Kilwinning, meaning no services will run on this stretch.
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Largs' first ever train trip to place 138 years ago - and it only cost 10p for a trip to Glasgow! On May 1885, the first passenger train steamed into the new station with about a dozen directors of the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company on board. After waiting for a short time to inspect the buildings of the platforms and the wooden station the train steamed out again in a fusillade of fog signals. Twelve days later on Monday June 1 the extension to Largs of the Ardrossan and Fairlie branch was opened to traffic.
(Permalink) Largs  Largs: The 11.48 ex-Glasgow Central creeps to a halt at Largs station on 31 July 2013.  Largs: EE Type 4 No.265 leaves Largs Station with a SO train to Newcastle in July 1973. On the right are several stabled Derby DMUs. Later the railway facilities were rationalised. See image [[35651]] for th ...  Largs: General view over Largs station on 27 February 1954, as Fowler 2P 4-4-0 no 40608 prepares to get underway with a train for Glasgow St Enoch. Editor's footnote: Additional info from Colin Miller ... |
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Trains between Ardrossan, Kilwinning and Largs have been cancelled this afternoon due to a fault with overhead power lines in Saltcoats.
(Permalink) Ardrossan Kilwinning Largs Overhead Line Equipment Saltcoats |
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Largs Railway Station Gardens have blossomed despite the pandemic thanks to dedicated volunteers keeping it on track.
Keen gardeners continued to tend to the areas flower beds and paths whenever restrictions allowed over the past two years. (Permalink) Largs  Largs: A Viking longboat at Largs Station. Design supplied by the Scottish Maritime Museum. Largs: Largs Community Garden looking north in June 2021. Sometime Platform 2 on the left, with the high wall built on the edge of Platform 1 so the platform is behind and now a walkway to Morrison's. The bu ...  Largs: View from the site of the old goods yard (the end of the Tesco car park) towards Largs station during a dry spell on a stormy winter afternoon, 3rd February 2020. |
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A largs councillor has slammed ScotRail's decision to press ahead with slashing opening hours at the Largs station ticket office.
It will close at 1.30pm Monday to Thursdays, 5.30pm Friday and Saturdays and 1pm on Sundays, the railway company have announced after a consultation period ended. Councillor Alex Gallagher slammed the decision after a string of recent violent late-night incidents on the line. (Permalink) Largs Ticket Office Largs: A Largs to Glasgow service is about to set off on 22 May 2019. I don't know what those people were doing on Platform 1 as the next train wasn't due there until the following morning. Mind you, I suppo ...  Largs: The station building at Largs on 31 May, looking towards the station entrance and Main Street. |
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Largs' famous landmarks and stories of the town's history will be showcased on a BBC show airing on Monday.
TV presenter Michael Portillo will be evoking the spirit of the Battle of Largs as he becomes a Viking for a day in the upcoming episode of Great Coastal Railway Journeys. (Permalink) BBC Great Coastal Railway Journeys Hunterston Power Station Largs Michael Portillo Vikings Wemyss Bay Largs: A Viking longboat at Largs Station. Design supplied by the Scottish Maritime Museum.  Largs: A Glasgow to Largs DMU approaching its destination in May 1984, taken from the overbridge. The road on the left is Rockland Park. The Pencil stands in the background. See image [[51154]]  Largs: The 'Pencil' and the Largs Branch in 1990 when it was still showing the scars of lifting the northbound line. |
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The MV Loch Shira is set to return to service on January 31 following completion of her dry docking schedule.
The main vessel on the Largs to Cumbrae route has been out of action for almost three months with an oil leak. (Permalink) Great Cumbrae Largs MV Loch Shira  Largs Slip:
Largs saw an unexpected visitor on 30/12/21. Hybrid ferry 'Catriona' is seen leaving for Cumbrae Slip. The usual vessel, 'Loch Shira' is out of service with a propulsion fault. The replacement is 'L ... |
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Cumbrae community councillors have called for an end to cleaning breaks on the ferry service between the island and Largs.
They say queues in the last few months are being made worse by the stops to wipe down the interior of the boats in a bid to help protect passengers against Covid-19 transmission. (Permalink) COVID-19 Caledonian MacBrayne Great Cumbrae Largs |
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People of Troon could soon be able to have their say on the restoration plans of Troon station.
(Permalink) Fire Largs Restoration Troon  Troon: 156442, forming the 15.15 for Stranraer, calls at Troon on a sunny 15th October 2020..  Troon: The 1036 Ayr to Glasgow calls at Troon on 2nd August 2021 following service resumption after the disastrous fire.
 Troon: The venerable analogue clock here at Troon's northbound platform is going, but it is very wrong: four hours twenty minutes fast as I'm sure you have worked out. The other face is stuck at 3 o'clock so ... |
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Railway bosses have been warned not to take the same approach to restoring fire ravaged Troon Station as they did with another Ayrshire seaside town.
(Permalink) Largs Troon  Troon: The roof frames have been saved and are piled on the platform. And let's hear it for the engineers - from Motherwell - who built the frame to last.  Largs: The open air concourse at Largs in July 2013, occasioned by the 'non-stop' 06.15 from Glasgow Central on 11 July 1995. Taken from approximately the same position as the 1995 photograph see image [[197 ...  Largs: The circulating area in Largs before the glass roof was destroyed by a runaway train. |
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Rail bosses have vowed to tackle anti-social behaviour problems on trains in and out of Largs.
(Permalink) 7pm staff boycott Anti-social behaviour Largs |
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A new rail link between Largs and Wemyss Bay is one of the surprise options put forward in a raft of travel improvements designed to boost the local economy.
Direct rail services between Kilmarnock, Ardrossan and Largs and between Largs-Ayr are also mooted. [The article refers to the 'Old Irvine Line' meaning the short curve used for freight and empty stock movements between Dubbs Junction and Byrehill Junction. Hunterston low level remains open to nuclear fuel traffic. -RS] (Permalink) Ayr Byrehill Junction Dubbs Junction Huntertston Pier Largs Largs Yacht Haven Wemyss Bay  Hunterston Low Level Sidings: Flask train ascending from Hunterston Low Level. 68005 'Defiant' leading with 88002 'Prometheus' behind on 20th April 2021.
 Byrehill Junction: Standard Mogul 77015 at Byrehill Junction on 4 April 1959 with an Ardrossan - Kilmarnock train. |
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The Largs line will fully reopen for passengers on Saturday (March 27) following the successful completion of work to repair landslip-damaged tracks near Fairlie.
(Permalink) Fairlie Landslip Largs  Fairlie: Looking down on the site of the major landslip at Fairlie, on 20th March 2021, with repair work apparently in its final stages although the track has still to be replaced.
 Fairlie: An aerial view of the Fairlie landslip seen on the 17th of February 2021.  Fairlie: The Fairlie landslip site on 23rd March 2021. The track has just been replaced and the tamper was in action. However, the overhead line had still to be replaced at the time the photograph was taken.
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The Largs rail line will fully reopen for passengers on Saturday (March 27) following the successful completion of work to repair landslip-damaged tracks near Fairlie.
(Permalink) Fairlie Landslip Largs Fairlie: Looking down on the site of the major landslip at Fairlie, on 20th March 2021, with repair work apparently in its final stages although the track has still to be replaced.
Fairlie: An aerial view of the Fairlie landslip seen on the 17th of February 2021. Fairlie: The Fairlie landslip site on 23rd March 2021. The track has just been replaced and the tamper was in action. However, the overhead line had still to be replaced at the time the photograph was taken.
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The construction of new Cumbrae ferry is to start within a year in a move welcomed by local MSP Kenneth Gibson.
(Permalink) Great Cumbrae Largs Largs: A Viking longboat at Largs Station. Design supplied by the Scottish Maritime Museum.  Cumbrae Ferry Terminal:
'MV Loch Shira' approaches the desolate Cumbrae Slip from Largs on 4th October 2019.
 Largs Slip: MV Loch Striven on the Largs - Great Cumbrae service in 1989 when still relatively new, having been built in 1986. This ferry can currently (2016) be found on the Oban - Lismore service. |
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Caledonian MacBrayne has extended its winter timetable for a further month to coincide with the planned easing of Covid-19 restrictions.
(Permalink) Great Cumbrae Largs Largs Slip: MV Loch Striven on the Largs - Great Cumbrae service in 1989 when still relatively new, having been built in 1986. This ferry can currently (2016) be found on the Oban - Lismore service. |
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A community group say they have been left in the dark over the re-opening of a Largs railway line.
(Permalink) Fairlie Largs West Kilbride  Montfode Fuel Depot Sidings: On a wet and dismal Saturday morning DB 66 206 is stationary at the former Montfode Fuel Depot Sidings with a materials train in connection with weekend track relaying in the Stevenston and Saltcoats ...  Montfode Fuel Depot Sidings: Long distance shot of one of the landslip work sites just north of Montfode Siding on the Largs line, showing Networks Rail's temporary access road laid across a field adjacent to the A78. The access ... Fairlie: An aerial view of the Fairlie landslip seen on the 17th of February 2021. |
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Flooding on the line in between Largs and West Kilbride has affected Glasgow train services.
(Permalink) Fairlie Flooding Largs West Kilbride |
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There are no trains between Glasgow Central, Largs and Ardrossan after heavy weather closed the lines.
(Permalink) Ardrossan Glasgow Central Largs |
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Proposals for a new marina railway station in Largs have received a mixed reaction.
(Permalink) Largs Largs Yacht Haven New station |
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A new multi-million pound railway station in Largs have moved a step closer.
(Permalink) Largs Largs Yacht Haven New station  Largs: An EMU leaving Largs for Glasgow in Spring 1988 andpassing the Marina. The scene is much changed today - a hard-standing occupies the area to the right and it is usually full of yachts and other craf ... Largs: The 'Pencil' and the Largs Branch in 1990 when it was still showing the scars of lifting the northbound line. |
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