Irvine railway station

Irvine

Location
Place	Irvine
Local authority	North Ayrshire
Coordinates	55°36′42″N 4°40′30″W / 55.6116°N 4.6750°W / 55.6116; -4.6750Coordinates: 55°36′42″N 4°40′30″W / 55.6116°N 4.6750°W / 55.6116; -4.6750
Grid reference	NS315385
Operations
Station code	IRV
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12	0.914 million
2012/13	0.944 million
2013/14	0.911 million
2014/15	0.955 million
2015/16	0.975 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
History
5 August 1839	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Irvine from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Irvine railway station is a railway station serving the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line, 30 miles (48 km) south west of Glasgow Central.

History

The station opened on 5 August 1839 as part of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway.^[1] There was a branch leaving here for Crosshouse and Kilmarnock which closed in 1965.^[2] During the electrification of the Ayrshire Coast Line by British Rail, Irvine station was partially refurbished, resulting in a glass front canopy on the main building and external ramp access to both platforms.

Facilities

The station is manned on a part-time basis and is one of the few stations still manned on the Ayrshire Coast line. There is a small kiosk shop and an adjoining car park with parking room for a small number of cars.

Services

Mondays to Saturdays there are 4 trains per hour northbound to Glasgow Central and 4 trains per hour southbound to Ayr with a half-hourly service in each direction on Sundays.

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Barassie		Abellio ScotRail Ayrshire Coast Line	Kilwinning
	Historical railways
Gailes Line open, station closed		Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway	Bogside Line open, station closed
Dreghorn Line and station closed		Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway	Bogside Line open, station closed

References

Notes

^ Butt, p. 128
^ Stansfield, p. 26

Sources

Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
Stansfield, G. (1999). Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways. Ochiltree: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 1-8403-3077-5.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_railway_station

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