Kilmacolm railway station was a railway station

Train station

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 serving the village of Kilmacolm

Kilmacolm

Kilmacolm is a village and civil parish in the Inverclyde council area and the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the northern slope of the Gryffe Valley south-east of Greenock and around west of the city of Glasgow...

, in the current council area of Inverclyde

Inverclyde

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 and the historic country

Counties of Scotland

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 of Renfrewshire

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 in the West-Central Lowlands

Central Lowlands

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 of Scotland

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. It was originally part of the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway

Greenock and Ayrshire Railway

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, later a line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway

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.

History

The station was opened by the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway Company on 23 December 1869, as Kilmacolm; however on 1 December 1904 it was renamed Kilmacolm G&SW. The station was largely rebuilt in 1907.

On 14 February 1959, stopping passenger services from Glasgow and Paisley ceased running beyond Kilmacolm; however, the Glasgow St Enoch

St Enoch railway station

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 to Greenock Prince's Pier Ocean Liner

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 boat train

Boat train

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s continued running, without stopping, through the station until 30 November 1965.

The tracks were truncated at Kilmacolm in September 1966 and it became the north western terminus of the Paisley Canal Line

Paisley Canal Line

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 passenger services.

The station and the rest of the line closed on 10 January 1983.

Current and future use

The former site of the station is now occupied by a tavern

Tavern

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.

The former railway line serving Kilmacolm station has been converted into a cycle path, and is now part of the Clyde to Forth cycle route

NCR 75

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 (National Cycle Route

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 75). The route of the line has been preserved, and has been confirmed by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

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 to be available for use again should future redevelopment of the line be considered.