Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier
other_name=


caption =
line = Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
manager = Caledonian Railway
locale = Ardrossan
borough = Ayrshire
latitude = 55.6419
longitude = -4.8209
gridref = NS225423
years = 30 May 1890
events = Opened as Ardrossan Pier
years1 = 1 January 1917
events1 = Closed
years2 = 1 February 1919
events2 = Reopened
years3 = 2 July 1924
events3 = Renamed Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier
years4 = 6 May 1968
events4 = Closed
platforms = 2|

Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier railway station was a railway station serving the town of Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway (L&AR). The station was opened to compete with the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) owned station at Winton Pier on the opposite side of the harbour.

History

The station opened on 30 May 1890 as Ardrossan Pier,Butt, page 18] replacing the L&AR Ardrossan station as the new terminus for the line in Ardrossan (although that station would continue to operate as an intermediate station). It was closed from 1 January 1917 to 1 February 1919 due to wartime economy,Stansfield, page 6] and upon the grouping of the L&AR into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923, the station was renamed Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier on 2 June 1924. The name change was to avoid confusion with the nearby G&SWR station of the same name, which was also incorporated into the LMS. Montgomerie Pier survived the former L&AR station closures of 1932, [Stansfield, page 7] .

The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and continued to operate until it officially closed to passengers by the British Railways Board on 6 May 1968, although the last train ran on 25 September 1967. Despite track removal in 1970, the station was still intact in 1974.Hume, p. 42-43] Today Montgomerie Pier is the site of private flats overlooking the Ardrossan Marina, and no trace of the station remains.

tation description

The station consisted of two side platforms in a iron-framed wooden-clad building, and originally had a glazed roof supported on lattice girders. A booking office for boats to Belfast was situated at the pier end of the platforms. [Main, 30 secs]

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rail line
next = Ardrossan Town
"Line and station closed
route = Caledonian Railway

"'Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
col = Caledonian colour
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