Ardrossan Harbour Winton Pier Station (27 years apart).
What a difference 27 years makes !
The top picture was taken on the 4th November 1985 and depicts a hybrid class 104/107 3-car DMU set forming 1T82 09.35 Ardrossan Harbour (Winton Pier) to Glasgow Central. This working being a boat train service with connections from the Isle of Arran via the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry from Brodick.
The bottom picture was taken on 23rd October 2012 and its just about impossible to make out any remnant of the former station. The block wall to the right of the covered way to the ferry terminal possibly marks the edge of the second platform track which would be to the left of the DMU in the upper picture.
Ardrossan Harbour Winton Pier station closed on 03.08.1986 with the line being cut back to a new single platform terminus called Ardrossan Harbour. The new station is sited at 31m 35ch with the physical line end at 31m 38ch. The old Winton Pier station was listed as 31m 48ch. The closure coincided with the Ayrshire coast lines electrification. I stand to be corrected but I believe the closure was brought about by the fact the extensive boat yard / marina would have been cut off if overhead wires had extended into the Winton Pier station as its buffer stops were litterly on the end of the quay. Instead the new station allows road traffic (trucks carrying yachts) to access the boat yard via the road seen in the foreground of the 2012 picture which is just beyond the buffer stops of the new station.
Ardrossan Harbour Winton Pier Station (27 years apart).
What a difference 27 years makes !
The top picture was taken on the 4th November 1985 and depicts a hybrid class 104/107 3-car DMU set forming 1T82 09.35 Ardrossan Harbour (Winton Pier) to Glasgow Central. This working being a boat train service with connections from the Isle of Arran via the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry from Brodick.
The bottom picture was taken on 23rd October 2012 and its just about impossible to make out any remnant of the former station. The block wall to the right of the covered way to the ferry terminal possibly marks the edge of the second platform track which would be to the left of the DMU in the upper picture.
Ardrossan Harbour Winton Pier station closed on 03.08.1986 with the line being cut back to a new single platform terminus called Ardrossan Harbour. The new station is sited at 31m 35ch with the physical line end at 31m 38ch. The old Winton Pier station was listed as 31m 48ch. The closure coincided with the Ayrshire coast lines electrification. I stand to be corrected but I believe the closure was brought about by the fact the extensive boat yard / marina would have been cut off if overhead wires had extended into the Winton Pier station as its buffer stops were litterly on the end of the quay. Instead the new station allows road traffic (trucks carrying yachts) to access the boat yard via the road seen in the foreground of the 2012 picture which is just beyond the buffer stops of the new station.