Dalry railway station

Railway station in North Ayrshire, Scotland

Dalry railway station is a railway station serving the town of Dalry, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.

History

The station was opened on 21 July 1840 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway.^[2] The station originally had two side platforms until the Dalry and North Johnstone Line was opened by the Glasgow and South Western Railway in 1905, when the station was remodeled with four platforms over two islands.^[3] Each new platform was 765 feet (233 m) long to accommodate the increased traffic, and were accessed via gangways from a covered walkway crossing the lines from the station building.^[3] The station also acted as the junction interchange between the line to Ayr and the original G&SWR main line to Kilmarnock, Dumfries and Carlisle from 1860 onwards, though the two routes actually separated a short distance to the west.

With the closure of both the Kilmarnock & North Johnstone lines to passenger traffic in 1966^[4] and to all other traffic in 1973 (Kilmarnock line) & 1977 (North Johnstone Loop),^[5] having four lines through the station became superfluous, so the station platforms were remodelled during the line's electrification in the 1980s back to two side platforms.^[6] The Ayrshire Coast Line was electrified by British Rail.

Services

A typical service between Monday and Saturday is:^[7]

• Half-hourly service to Ayr
• Hourly service to Ardrossan Harbour
• Four trains per-hour to Glasgow Central

There are also occasional services to Largs. On Sundays, the Largs branch trains call hourly in each direction.

References

Notes

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt, p. 76
3. Guthrie
4. Hurst, p. 44
5. Hurst, p. 70
6. Smith, p. 18
7. Table 221 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• Guthrie, Arthur. Dalry & District (2nd ed.). Ardrossan: Arthur Guthrie & Sons.
• Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.

• Smith, W.A.C. (2001). Ayrshire's Last Days of Steam. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 1-8403-3151-8. OCLC 47232834.