Kilmacolm railway station
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Kilmacolm railway station was a railway station serving the village of Kilmacolm, in the current council area of Inverclyde and the historic county of Renfrewshire in the West-Central Lowlands of Scotland. It was originally part of the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway, later a line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
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Kilmacolm | |
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General information | |
Location | Kilmacolm, Inverclyde Scotland |
Coordinates | 55.8931°N 4.6295°W / 55.8931; -4.6295 |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Greenock and Ayrshire Railway |
Pre-grouping | Glasgow and South Western Railway |
Post-grouping | LMS |
Key dates | |
23 December 1869 | Opened as Kilmacolm[1] |
1 December 1904 | Renamed: Kilmacolm G&SW[1] |
1907 | Station largely Rebuilt |
2 February 1959 | Became terminal passenger station of Paisley Canal Line |
10 January 1983 | Closed[1] |
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The station was opened in 1869. Services west to Greenock were discontinued in 1959 and services to the east and into Glasgow ended in 1983 when the station was closed.