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Ardrossan Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![A DMU leaves Ardrossan Winton Pier (then known as Ardrossan Harbour). The station has closed and its replacement is to the left of the track.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6138.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![A DMU waits in Ardrossan Harbour station.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6139.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![The tracks which formerly ran to the western breakwater.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6142.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![A permanent way train at Ardrossan Harbour on the tracks which formerly ran to the western breakwater.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6143.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![Ardrossan South Beach in September 1949. Class 2 4.4.0 572 on empty stock.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/09/1949]](/images/7000/7529.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![Ardrossan Town station September 1949. 2.6.4T 42212 entering on a Kilmarnock train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/09/1949]](/images/7000/7530.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0 no 76092 entering Saltcoats station on 22 August 1957 with a Largs - St Enoch train. The locomotive had been delivered new to Corkerhill from Horwich works two months earlier. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 22/08/1957]](/images/53000/53455.jpg "Saltcoats")
![57673 on shed at 67D Ardrossan on 27 March 1959. The locomotive was withdrawn from here in March 1962 and Ardrossan shed closed in February 1965. [See image 1036]<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 27/03/1959]](/images/28000/28561.jpg "Ardrossan MPD")
![Fowler 2P 4-4-0 no 40667 stands in the shed yard at 67D Ardrossan in March 1959.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 27/03/1959]](/images/31000/31650.jpg "Ardrossan MPD")
![Fowler 2P 4-4-0 no 40606 stored at 67D Ardrossan shed in March 1959. Officially withdrawn by BR two months later, the locomotive was cut up at Inverurie works at the end of September that year.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 27/03/1959]](/images/31000/31776.jpg "Ardrossan MPD")
![LMS 2P 4-4-0 40644 with a Kilmarnock to Ardrossan train approaching Dubbs Junction on 4 April 1959. [Ref query 8500] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/50000/50781.jpg "Dubbs Junction")
![Standard class 5 73103 with a Largs - Glasgow St Enoch service on 4 April 1959. The train is passing the point where the L&A once crossed over the formation at Stevenston No 1.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/51000/51147.jpg "Stevenston No 1 Signal Box [2nd]")
![Ardrossan shed's Fairburn tank 42209 pilots Corkerhill Black 5 44791 through Dubbs Junction on 4 April 1959 with a boat express heading for Fairlie Pier.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/51000/51416.jpg "Dubbs Junction")
![Fairburn tank 42196 leaving Stevenston on 4 April 1959 with an Ardrossan - Ayr train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/51000/51647.jpg "Stevenston")
![One of Ardrossan shed's Fowler 2P 4-4-0s no 40579 leaving Saltcoats with a Largs train on 4 April 1959.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/51000/51825.jpg "Saltcoats")
![A Glasgow St Enoch - Largs train calls at Stevenston on 4 April 1959. The locomotive simmering gently at the platform is Fowler 2P 4-4-0 no 40667, with only 6 months to go before its eventual withdrawal from Ardrossan shed. View is east over Station Road level crossing.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/52000/52509.jpg "Stevenston")
![Black 5 44791 with a Largs - Glasgow train near Saltcoats in April 1959 [Ref query 7620].<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/52000/52540.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Ex-LMS 'Crab' 2-6-0 42912 runs through Holm Junction with a goods for Elderslie in April 1959. Ardrossan shed stands in the background.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/52000/52795.jpg "Holm Junction")
![40667 pulls away from Stevenston on 4 April 1959 with a Glasgow St Enoch - Largs train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/52000/52960.jpg "Stevenston")
![40624 calls at Ardrossan South Beach on 4 April 1959 with a train for St Enoch. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/53000/53266.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![Ardrossan shed's 'Crab' 2-6-0 no 42806 with a brake van at Ardeer on 4 April 1959, at the point where the spur was put in to the L&A. [See image 51147] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/55000/55852.jpg "Stevenston No 1 Signal Box [2nd]")
![An Ardrossan Town - Kilmarnock train near Saltcoats on 4 April 1959 behind Fowler 2P 4-4-0 40688. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/04/1959]](/images/57000/57473.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Black 5 no 45007 is about to leave Ardrossan Winton Pier on 6 July 1959 with a boat express for Glasgow St Enoch. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow /07/1959]](/images/54000/54375.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![A Largs - St Enoch train calls at Kilwinning on 4 July 1959. In charge is BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73123, a locomotive which spent its entire operational life at Corkerhill shed.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/50000/50527.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Dalry Road Black 5 44994 pulling away from the Kilwinning stop on 4 July 1959 on its way home with an Ayr - Edinburgh Princes Street train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/50000/50547.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Standard class 5 73123 arrives at Kilwinning in the summer of 1959 with a Largs - St Enoch train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/50000/50752.jpg "Kilwinning")
![A Saturday Girvan - St Enoch train calls at Kilwinning on 4 July 1959. Locomotive in charge is Corkerhill shed's Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42247. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/52000/52861.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Fowler 2P 4-4-0 40689 approaching Kilwinning from the north on 4 July 1959 with a train from St Enoch destined for Ardrossan Town. [Ref query 4531]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/54000/54609.jpg "Kilwinning")
![An Ardrossan Winton Pier - Glasgow St Enoch train approaching Kilwinning station on 4 July 1959 behind Fowler 2P 4-4-0 no 40624. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/55000/55554.jpg "Kilwinning")
![A Glasgow St Enoch - Largs train arrives at Kilwinning on 4 July 1959 behind 2P 4-4-0 40667.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/55000/55829.jpg "Kilwinning")
![A Kilmarnock - Winton Pier train takes the left fork at Holm Junction after leaving Ardrossan South Beach station on 4 July 1959. The locomotive is one of Hurlford shed's Fowler 2P 4-4-0s no 40688, only 4 weeks from final withdrawal. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/56000/56907.jpg "Holm Junction")
![Looking north over the goods yard and west side platforms 1 and 2 at Kilwinning station on Saturday 4 July 1959. In the background an Edinburgh Princes Street - Ayr train is about to call at platform 4. The train is hauled by Dalry Road shed's Black 5 no 44994. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/57000/57257.jpg "Kilwinning")
![One of Motherwell shed's Black 5 4-6-0s no 45433 takes the Largs route at the north end of Kilwinning on Saturday 4 July 1959 with a train from Law Junction. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1959]](/images/63000/63166.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Corkerhill shed's BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 76096 passing Ardrossan South Beach on 6 July 1959 at the head of a Glasgow St Enoch - Winton Pier express. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/50000/50590.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![40668 shortly after leaving Ardrossan Town on 6 July 1959 about to run through Holm Junction with a train for St Enoch. The locomotive has just passed its home shed standing in the V of the junction. The Largs route runs off to the right.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/51000/51473.jpg "Holm Junction")
![Shunting at Ardrossan Winton Pier on a sunny 6 July 1959 is McIntosh 3F 0-6-0T 56282. The 1898 veteran survived until April 1962 at the nearby Ardrossan shed. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/52000/52261.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![42124 brings a train from Glasgow into the bay platforms at Ardrossan Town on 6 July 1959.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/52000/52882.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Fowler 2P 4-4-0 40689 pulls away from Ardrossan Town station on 6 July 1959 at the head of a Winton Pier - Kilmarnock train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/53000/53503.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Looking south through Ardrossan Town station in the summer of 1959. On the right a train for Kilmarnock is waiting in the bay behind Hurlford shed's 2P 4-4-0 no 40644. In the left background the gates of Princes Street level crossing are closed to rail traffic, with part of Princes Street signal box visible just beyond. [See image 37014]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/53000/53553.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Corkerhill Black 5 45007 about to pass Ardrossan Harbour signal box on 6 July 1959 with a Winton Pier - St Enoch express.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/53000/53825.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![40644 passing Castlehill Junction, Ardrossan, on 6 July 1959 with a train for Kilmarnock. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/54000/54750.jpg "Castlehill Junction")
![A Winton Pier - Glasgow St Enoch train about to pass through Holm Junction on 6 July 1959. Corkerhill Standard class 5 4-6-0 73103 is at the head of the train. [Railscot note: No doubt the lady in the garden on the left had checked the wind direction first thing that particular Monday morning]. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/55000/55798.jpg "Holm Junction")
![A train from Winton Pier calls at Ardrossan town on 6 July 1959 with a service for Kilmarnock. The locomotive is Hurlford shed's 2P 4-4-0 no 40689. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/56000/56028.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![44671 arrives at Ardrossan South Beach on 6 July 1959 with a St Enoch - Largs train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/58000/58826.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T 42191 runs through Holm Junction on 24 May 1960 with a Largs - St Enoch train. At that time the locomotive was allocated to Ardrossan shed (67D), which stands in the background.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1960]](/images/57000/57625.jpg "Holm Junction")
![End of the line. Ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 no 57673 stands at the south east corner of Ardrossan shed yard in the early part of 1962, around the time of its withdrawal. <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1962]](/images/36000/36907.jpg "Ardrossan MPD")
![RCTS/SLS RAIL TOUR OF SCOTLAND 22nd June 1962<br><br>
42196 passing Saltcoats.<br><br>[Jim Currie (Courtesy Stephenson Locomotive Society) 22/06/1962]](/images/39000/39539.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Steam meets diesel at Kilwinning in July 1962. Note the Caledonian semaphore route indicator carried by the steam locomotive.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 01/07/1962]](/images/36000/36706.jpg "Kilwinning")
![A J36 0-6-0, heads north past Castlehill Junction Ardrossan in November 1962. The locomotive is thought to be no 65273, allocated to 67D from March 1962 until withdrawal in September 1963. Ardrossan Town station is off picture to the left [see image 29400].<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /11/1962]](/images/36000/36439.jpg "Castlehill Junction")
![The yard and shed at Ardrossan, seen in November 1962. The lineup (left to right) includes 67D based locomotives 42191, 40625 and 40668. The latter pair were 'stored' at that stage, having been officially withdrawn in October the previous year. The Stanier 2-6-4T was officially withdrawn the following month. Ardrossan shed closed completely in February 1965. [See image 28561]<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /11/1962]](/images/36000/36626.jpg "Ardrossan MPD")
![Out of use locomotives stored in the sidings alongside Ardrossan shed in November 1962 included (front to rear) 40668, 40625 and 42191. [See image 36626].<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /11/1962]](/images/37000/37170.jpg "Ardrossan MPD")
![A Caley 0-6-0 in action at Ardrossan Harbour on a cold November morning in 1962.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/11/1962]](/images/36000/36832.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![Black 5 no 45457 off Ardrossan shed, photographed from the foot of Ardrossan Harbour Junction signal box on 29 December 1962 [see image 8170]. Winton Pier is approximately 100 yards behind the camera and the line off to the left leads to Ardrossan North.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/12/1962]](/images/36000/36336.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour Junction")
![Black 5 no 45457 off Ardrossan shed waits patiently at Princes Street level crossing with a freight ready to leave the port area in December 1962. Ardrossan Town station stands on the other side of the crossing.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/12/1962]](/images/37000/37014.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![A freight waiting to leave the Ardrossan port area on a winter's day in December 1962 behind Black 5 no 45457. The train is held at signals on the south side of Princes Street level crossing. [See image 37014]<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/12/1962]](/images/37000/37541.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T no 80049 stands in the bay following arrival with a train at Ardrossan Town in March 1963.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 09/03/1963]](/images/36000/36460.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Clayton D8502 with a freight at Kilwinning in May 1963. The locomotive had been delivered new to Polmadie in October 1962 and was withdrawn from the same location exactly 9 years later. D8502 was cut up at St Rollox in March 1973.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/05/1963]](/images/37000/37251.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Caley 0-6-0 no 57336 with a rake of empty mineral wagons is held at signals at Ardrossan South Beach station on 25 May 1963. The locomotive was withdrawn from Ardrossan shed 4 months later.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/05/1963]](/images/37000/37305.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![The north end of Kilwinning station on a grey and overcast Saturday 25 May 1963. A standard class 5 4-6-0 is running into the Largs platform with a train from Glasgow.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/05/1963]](/images/37000/37463.jpg "Kilwinning")
![<I>See and be seen!</I> A Kilmarnock bound stopping train overtakes a 'pedestrian' just prior to arrival at Ardrossan South Beach station on 25 May 1963. Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42190 is passing below the bridge carrying South Beach Road.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/05/1963]](/images/37000/37521.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![45498 brings a train from Glasgow into the Largs branch platform at Kilwinning in May 1963. Kilwinning Junction signal box stands in the right background.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/05/1963]](/images/37000/37703.jpg "Kilwinning")
![View south east in 1963, showing a Caley 0-6-0 with a train of gunpowder vans in the Ardeer ICI sidings by Stevenston No 1 signalbox. To the immediate right is the trackbed of the Misk branch which carried a workers passenger service to the single platform Ardeer station (served by both CR and G&SW). In particular this branch served the Nobel explosives works. On the horizon is the disused trackbed of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. Today (2012) the ICI sidings seen here (which ran along the southern edge of the Ardrossan line) are lifted but the overgrown Misk branch remains in place. <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/05/1963]](/images/38000/38259.jpg "Stevenston No 1 Signal Box [2nd]")
![Remains of 67D Ardrossan Shed (closed 1965) seen in February 1972 with track still in place. [See image 28561]<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/02/1972]](/images/1000/1036.jpg "Ardrossan MPD")
![A Glasgow Central - Ardrossan Harbour DMU running over Princes Street level crossing in February 1972.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/02/1972]](/images/4000/4125.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Ayr based 3208 shunting Ardrossan Harbour in February 1972.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/02/1972]](/images/5000/5719.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![A DMU for Glasgow Central waits at Ardrossan's Winton Pier station in 1984.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1984]](/images/36000/36473.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![General view of Winton Pier station, Ardrossan in the summer of 1984, with a DMU from Glasgow Central recently arrived at the terminus.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/07/1984]](/images/3000/3102.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![The 12.33 to Glasgow Central awaiting departure time at Ardrossan Winton Pier in July 1984.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/07/1984]](/images/5000/5718.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![DMU 101363 at Winton Pier, Ardrossan Harbour in August 1985. <br><br>[David Panton //1985]](/images/16000/16660.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![DMUs in the bays at Ardrossan Town station in 1985, looking back towards Holm Junction.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/21000/21659.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![IoMSP's <I>Mona's Queen</I> leaving Ardrossan Winton Pier in 1985 for Douglas - the last year of these sailings. [See image 20853]<br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/28000/28557.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![The main building at Ardrossan Town in 1985 with Princes Street level crossing on the left. Gates, canopies, footbridge etc had all gone by this time. [See image 4125]<br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/29000/29399.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![The main station building at Ardrossan Town from the south in 1985, photographed looking over Princes Street level crossing. A DMU can be seen standing in one of the bay platforms on the right.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/29000/29408.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![View north west at Stevenston no 1 signal box in 1985. The trackbed of the LMS connection to the Caledonian line to Montgomerie Pier is on the right with the abutment of the Caley bridge in the background.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/32000/32525.jpg "Stevenston No 1 Signal Box [2nd]")
![The frontage of Ardrossan Town station looking across Princes Street in 1985. The level crossing is on the right. [See image 7530].<br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/42000/42734.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Platform view west at Ardrossan Town in 1985, looking back towards the station entrance on Princes Street [see image 29408]. A 6-car DMU is stabled in the bay platform. The station, which was closed at that time, reopened following electrification in January 1987. <br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/45000/45051.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Ardrossan Town with a class 107 in the bay platform. This photograph was taken in 1985, the station had closed in 1965 and would re-open in 1987. Two sidings, one alongside the platform, remained in the bay for stabling in 1985.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1985]](/images/60000/60336.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![View from a passing train of the sidings at ICI Ardeer in 1985. [Ref query 1669]<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1985]](/images/60000/60354.jpg "Ardeer ICI Nylon Plant")
![The signal box at Holm Junction, photographed from a passing train on 31 August 1985. Ardrossan South Beach station is on the other side of the bridge carrying South Beach Road. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/08/1985]](/images/51000/51756.jpg "Holm Junction")
![View from a train passing Stevenston No.2 signal box on 31 August 1985. [Ref query 5252]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/08/1985]](/images/52000/52080.jpg "Stevenston")
![Approaching Ardrossan harbour. 31 August 1985.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/08/1985]](/images/60000/60314.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![Ardrossan Winton Pier station in August 1985. This once fine station was to close when the line was cut back to the new Ardrossan Harbour station in 1986.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/08/1985]](/images/60000/60344.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![The original Winton Pier site at Ardrossan Harbour in September 1985... not looking particularly welcoming. [See image 28557]<br><br>[David Panton /09/1985]](/images/20000/20853.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![A <i>Tricoleur</i> DMU off the Largs branch stands at Kilwinning in August 1986, just prior to the commencement of electric services on the branch.<br><br>[David Panton /08/1986]](/images/18000/18149.jpg "Kilwinning")
![On borrowed time ... Ardrossan harbour box. The lever frame. Somehow the box survived the resignalling which came with the Ayrshire electrification. But not for long.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8166.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour Junction")
![Ardrossan Harbour box looking to Ardrossan Harbour station and Winton Pier.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8167.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour Junction")
![A view of Ardrossan Harbour taken to compare with GH Robins view of the harbour also taken from the box.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8168.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![Ardrossan Harbour approach seen from the signalbox. Much reduced. Off to the left ran the lines to Ardrossan North and to the right others to the breakwater [see image 36336].<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8170.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour Junction")
![The Ardrossan welcome, Welcome to Ar. Following the closure of Winton Pier station and cut back to the new Ardrossan Harbour station this site greeted passengers from the ferry.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8171.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![The remains of Winton Pier. Once with two platform faces and a huge wooden roof covering all.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8172.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![Winton Pier remains. After cutting back the line passengers are faced with a longer walk to Ardrossan Harbour station (distant left).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8173.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![Winton Pier closed but still sporting a shelter. Note infilled platform to left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8174.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![Ardrossan Harbour, the cut-back line looking to Winton Pier.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8175.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![Ardrossan Harbour Box. Not long to go.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8176.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour Junction")
![Ardrossan Town station, hugely cut-back. Note the semphore on the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8177.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Ardrossan Town where quite a bit of track was lifted recently. Off to the left there had been carriage sidings but the more recently lifted track was the double track, bay platforms and goods.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8178.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Ravenscraig-Hunterston Iron Ore empties thunder past Holm Junction. To the left is the line to Ardrossan Harbour, straight ahead was the shed and to the right is the Largs route (single for passengers, double for freight).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8179.jpg "Holm Junction")
![Largs-Glasgow train at Ardrossan South Beach. Eastbound platform removed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8181.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![Ardrossan South Beach looking to Kilwinning.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8182.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![Kilwinning station, the Ardrossan platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8223.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Saltcoats looking east showing its fine buildings. Off to the right nearby the harbour branch was end of the Ardrossan Waggonway from Eglinton to Saltcoats.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8254.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Glasgow bound station building at Saltcoats.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8255.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Saltcoats looking east to the station. The goods yard was on the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8256.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Looking east at Stevenston from the level crossing.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8257.jpg "Stevenston")
![Glasgow bound, a train comes out of the sun at Stevenston.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8258.jpg "Stevenston")
![Ardeer looking east. From left to right; the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway approached from the left (behind the camera), Ardrossan line, sidings, Ardeer ICI Nylon, Ardeer Misk. The L&AR previously crossed over some distance behind the camera and swung to the right of this shot, but, after LMS modifications, merged here at Stevenston No 1. The structure is the Ammonia Sphere.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8259.jpg "Stevenston No 1 Signal Box [2nd]")
![Looking west at what was Stevenston No 1 jnct. The L&AR approached from distant right and merged. Before the LMS alterations it flew over the line and travelled to Kilwinning East on an alignment to the south (the left) of the extant line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8260.jpg "Stevenston No 1 Signal Box [2nd]")
![View of the newly opened Ardrossan Harbour station on a rainy day in January 1987. At the platform with an imminent departure for Glasgow Central is a hybrid DMU made up of two Derby heavyweight 107s and a Metro-Cammell 101 at the far end.<br><br>[Colin Miller /01/1987]](/images/38000/38272.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![A Metro Cammell 101 with 2 Derby Heavyweight 107s behind forming the next train to Glasgow Central from the newly opened Ardrossan Harbour station on a wet day in early January 1987. <br><br>[Colin Miller /01/1987]](/images/38000/38287.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![Glasgow bound train at Ardrossan Town. Note the (then) recently lifted tracks to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/20000/20416.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Ardrossan Harbour box on its last day. Oddly this box was left out of the Ayrshire resignalling for a short while. The level crossing was receiving some final attention. By the end the box contained an almost completely white (redundant) lever frame. The (nearly) Trotters Independent Traders van in the background is a BR vehicle of the time.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/20000/20447.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![A couple of class 20s head into the sunset with coal empties at Kilwinning in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/20000/20527.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Approach to the platform at Ardrossan Harbour in July 1997. Note the BR double arrow symbol has been crudely painted out pending replacement with the SPT logo.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1997]](/images/21000/21978.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![Class 56110 passing Stevenston with a loaded coal train from Hunterston in 1999. Behind the 3rd and 4th wagons (from the left) is the abutment of the Caledonian flyover.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1999]](/images/55000/55397.jpg "Stevenston No 1 Signal Box [2nd]")
![318 257 pulls into Ardrossan South Beach in June 1999 with a Glasgow Central service. <br><br>[David Panton /06/1999]](/images/22000/22067.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![Looking toward Adrossan Town from Ardrossan Harbour Jct LC.... Notice the cant.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 17/09/2005]](/images/11000/11142.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour Junction")
![Coal train en route to Longannet on 17 May passing east through Saltcoats station.<br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2007]](/images/15000/15065.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Glasgow bound platform at Saltcoats. View east on 17 May.<br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2007]](/images/15000/15200.jpg "Saltcoats")
![South side of Saltcoats station in May 2007 looking east at the former offices/station masters house between the platform (left) and Vernon Street. <br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2007]](/images/15000/15426.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Coal train for Longannet power station comes off the Largs branch on 3 May and is about to join the Ayr - Glasgow line just north of Kilwinning station. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/14000/14958.jpg "Kilwinning")
![EWS 66083 brings a Hunterston - Longannet coal train through Kilwinning on 3 May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/15000/15062.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Glasgow bound train arrives from Largs at Kilwinning in May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/15000/15607.jpg "Kilwinning")
![An SPT liveried class 318 EMU arriving at a very quiet Kilwinning platform 2 on 3rd May 2007 forming a Glasgow Central - Largs service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/05/2007]](/images/62000/62444.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Some of the interesting architecture at Saltcoats station. 17 May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/15000/15066.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Looking over Princes Street level crossing on 17 May 2007 in the general direction of Ardrossan Harbour. Ardrossan Town station stands behind the camera.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/15000/15067.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![View north from Princes Street level crossing over Ardrossan Town station in May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/15000/15069.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![End of the line at Ardrossan Harbour on 17 May with the ferry about to depart.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/15000/15075.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![Entrance to Ardrossan Harbour station from the ferry terminus. May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/15000/15076.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![A Glasgow Central - Largs service runs into Saltcoats on 17 May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/15000/15084.jpg "Saltcoats")
![View west at Holm Junction, Ardrossan, in May 2007. From left to right are the lines to Ardrossan Harbour, the former line to the sidings and shed, the passenger line to Largs and the freight only line used mainly by the Hunterston coal trains.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/15000/15085.jpg "Holm Junction")
![<I> Ae fond kiss...</I> Saltcoats farewell, Glasgow bound platform, 17 May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/15000/15403.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Former station offices and station masters house at Saltcoats facing onto Vernon Street in May 2007 with the current station entrance just beyond.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/15000/15404.jpg "Saltcoats")
![The substantial building on the Glasgow bound platform of the 1882 Saltcoats station in May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/21000/21746.jpg "Saltcoats")
![View from the B728 road bridge, over South Beach station, Ardrossan, looking towards Saltcoats in May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/21000/21752.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![The 1431 Ardrossan Town - Glasgow Central service arrives at Saltcoats on 17 May 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/21000/21781.jpg "Saltcoats")
![The 12.16 Largs - Glasgow Central restarts after calling at Saltcoats on 17 May 2007. The station, the third to serve Saltcoats, was opened in 1882, although the town's New Trinity Church in the background pre-dates it by more than a century.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/34000/34193.jpg "Saltcoats")
![EWS 66165 brings an eastbound coal train from Hunterston Import Terminal through platform 1 at Saltcoats station on 17 May 2007 on its way to Longannet power station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/51000/51870.jpg "Saltcoats")
![Trains to and from Largs meet at Kilwinning on 3 May.<br><br>[John Furnevel 3/05/2007]](/images/14000/14831.jpg "Kilwinning")
![An afternoon Largs - Glasgow Central service leaving the western platforms at Kilwinning on 3 May 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 3/05/2007]](/images/14000/14889.jpg "Kilwinning")
![A coal train from Hunterston runs north under the footbridge linking the west side platforms at Kilwinning on 3 May. <br><br>[John Furnevel 3/05/2007]](/images/14000/14922.jpg "Kilwinning")
![The lifted Ardeer ICI sidings at Stevenston in October 2008. The Ardrossan Railway is to the left, the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway was to the right and the Misk or Ardeer branch ran off to the right behind the camera.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /10/2008]](/images/38000/38260.jpg "Ardeer ICI Nylon Plant")
![A Glasgow Central - Largs service formed by 334 025 runs into Saltcoats on 15 October 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 15/10/2008]](/images/21000/21113.jpg "Saltcoats")
![A 6-car set, with unit 334 027 leading, arrives in the western platforms at Kilwinning on 1 November 2008 with a Saturday Glasgow Central - Largs service.<br><br>[David Panton 01/11/2008]](/images/21000/21374.jpg "Kilwinning")
![A failure of the barrier system at Stevenston results in 318 269 being flagged over the crossing against a danger signal on 12 November with a service for Ardrossan Town.<br><br>[David Panton 12/11/2008]](/images/21000/21437.jpg "Stevenston")
![The rather featureless station at Stevenston welcomes 334 027 with a service from Glasgow Central bound for Largs on 12 November 2008. <br><br>[David Panton 12/11/2008]](/images/21000/21538.jpg "Stevenston")
![Looking towards Holm Junction from Ardrossan South Beach on 10 December. On the right is the freight only line used primarily by the Hunterston coal trains.<br><br>[David Panton 10/12/2008]](/images/21000/21741.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![A Glasgow Central - Ayr service pulls into Kilwinning platform 4 on 10 December 2008, with 318 269 at the head of a 6-car train.<br><br>[David Panton 10/12/2008]](/images/21000/21756.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Spot the train. A 334 rests in Ardrossan Harbour station amidst the clutter of the harbour. The view is from DSMV Clansman which replaced the usual vessel.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 23/01/2009]](/images/22000/22770.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![318 257 lies over at Ardrossan Town on 1 April before starting the return journey to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[David Panton 01/04/2009]](/images/23000/23093.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![318 257 stands at Ardrossan Town on 1 April 2009, about to start the return journey to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[David Panton 01/04/2009]](/images/23000/23198.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Due to OLE problems at Howwood on 25th February, Ardrossan trains were cancelled and 318261 operated an hourly shuttle between Largs and Kilwinning. The EMU leaves a very wet Saltcoats for the junction.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/02/2010]](/images/27000/27891.jpg "Saltcoats")
![318 265 pulls out of Ardrossan South Beach with an Ardrossan Harbour to Glasgow Central service on 14 June 2010. The platform line is bi-directional, but the line in the foreground is Up Freight only. As with all single-platform stations the digitised announcements refer to the platform as 'platform 1'; perhaps they think 'the platform' sounds a bit pathetic.'<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2010]](/images/29000/29377.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![Ardrossan is easily the smallest settlement in Scotland (and possibly Britain) to have 3 network stations. The now hourly Harbour Branch trains visits all 3, which are less then a half-mile from each other. Even so, Ardossan South Beach is only just inside the boundary with Saltcoats and Ardrossan Harbour is, well, out on the Harbour. Ardrossan Town is half way between them. After picking up custom from the Arran Ferry on 14 June 334 039 prepares to leave Harbour station on its crawl over 2 level crossings to Town station and, ultimately, Glasgow Central. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2010]](/images/29000/29387.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![Ardrossan Town station, photographed from the Castle Hill on 14 June 2010 with 334 039 about to leave on the short (but slow) hop to Ardrossan Harbour. Road traffic on Princes Street has already been stopped. This was once a more substantial station with two through lines and two bays and a street-fronting building to the right. Remains of the original structure were still obvious when the station reopened in 1987 as a single platform, but all has now gone. Happily though the platform is being extended at the eastern end (off camera).<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2010]](/images/29000/29400.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![DBS locomotive 66155 powers through Ardrossan South Beach station with heavy haul train 6G07 fully loaded Hunterston HL sidings-Longannet power station.<br><br>[Ken Browne 19/01/2011]](/images/32000/32414.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![View south east along the platform at Ardrossan South Beach on 19 January 2011 as DBS 66054 approaches with train 4J06 Longannet empties destined for Hunterston HL sidings.<br><br>[Ken Browne 19/01/2011]](/images/32000/32425.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![380004 arrives at Kilwinning on 6 May with the 16.20 Largs to Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[Ken Browne 06/05/2011]](/images/34000/34112.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Southbound 380110+380012 about to enter Kilwinning station on 6 May, just as 334039 prepares to leave with a service for Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Ken Browne 06/05/2011]](/images/34000/34144.jpg "Kilwinning")
![One of the DBS <I>Euro Cargo Rail</I> fleet no 66033 runs through Ardrossan South Beach at speed with 4J06 Longannet - Hunterston empty HTAs on 26 May 2011.<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/05/2011]](/images/34000/34248.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![380009 glides to a halt at Ardrossan South Beach on 26 May with the 13.11 Largs - Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/05/2011]](/images/34000/34251.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![380113 leaving Saltcoats station on 20 June heading for Largs.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 20/06/2011]](/images/34000/34595.jpg "Saltcoats")
![The station building on the Glasgow bound platform at Saltcoats on 20 June 2011, seen from the footbridge.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 20/06/2011]](/images/34000/34611.jpg "Saltcoats")
![380016 about to leave Saltcoats on 20 June with a Glasgow Central - Largs train.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 20/06/2011]](/images/34000/34619.jpg "Saltcoats")
![DBS 66221 with the early running 4J74 Cockenzie power station - Hunterston import terminal, runs through Kilwinning station on 7 September in atrocious weather conditions!<br><br>[Ken Browne 07/09/2011]](/images/35000/35575.jpg "Kilwinning")
![DRS class 37s nos 37607 and 37038 slowing for a signal stop at Kilwinning on 26 October with the 6M22 Hunterston - Carlisle nuclear flask train.<br><br>[Ken Browne 26/10/2011]](/images/36000/36182.jpg "Kilwinning")
![Stanier Black 5 4-6-0s nos 45305+45407 about to pass south through Barassie station on 24 April 2012 with the Glasgow (Barnhill) - Stranraer leg of the <I>Great Britain V </I> railtour.<br><br>[Ken Browne 24/04/2012]](/images/38000/38661.jpg "Barassie")
![Platform scene at Ardrossan South Beach on 24 April 2012 with DRS 37194+37667 passing on the 6M22 Hunterston - Carlisle Yard nuclear flasks. [Editor's note: Locomotive 37667 (then D6851) hauled the last down Anglo-Scottish freight over the Waverley Route (the 08.30 Kingmoor-Millerhill) on Saturday 4th January 1969.]<br><br>[Ken Browne 24/04/2012]](/images/38000/38663.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![The buffers at Ardrossan Harbour, and a Class 380 newly arrived from Glasgow. Prior to 1987 when this station opened the line continued a short distance to the station at Ardrossan Winton Pier.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/03/2013]](/images/42000/42311.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![On a gloomy March afternoon, unit 380108 runs over Princes Street level crossing and into Ardrossan Town station with a service for Glasgow Central. The transformation, during the last six years, of the building on the far side of the crossing is a tremendous improvement. [See image 15067]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/03/2013]](/images/42000/42354.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![When the sleek, four car, Class 380s run down to Ardrossan Harbour but don't actually connect with a ferry they look a bit incongruous in the station. 380108 has a half hour layover in the near deserted branch terminus before returning to Glasgow Central. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/03/2013]](/images/42000/42389.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![Glasgow bound 380108, on a service that started at the Harbour station, calls at Ardrossan Town. This station is much smaller than it originally was [see image 21659] but at least it is open to passengers again after being closed for a number of years. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/03/2013]](/images/42000/42948.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![DRS 20304+20302 with the 6M22 Hunterston - Sellafield nuclear flasks passing Ardrossan South Beach on 5 June 2013. No 20302 was recently restored to traffic by DRS although the long term future of the class is in some doubt.<br><br>[Ken Browne 05/06/2013]](/images/43000/43483.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![DRS 57010 and WH Malcolm liveried 66434 with the 6M22 Hunterston to Sellafield nuclear flasks passing through Ardrossan South Beach on 10 January - unusually on the platform line.<br><br>[Ken Browne 10/01/2014]](/images/46000/46159.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![DRS 57002+57008 with the 6M22 Hunterston to Sellafield nuclear flasks passing through Ardrossan South Beach station on 13 August 2014.<br><br>[Ken Browne 13/08/2014]](/images/48000/48997.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![The 1218 Glasgow Central - Ardrossan Harbour formed by Scotrail EMU 380108 calls at Ardrossan South Beach on 13 August 2014.<br><br>[Ken Browne 13/08/2014]](/images/49000/49022.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![The Cafe at The Station in Saltcoats is in the building on the right of the old photograph on its wall.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 08/07/2016]](/images/62000/62193.jpg "Saltcoats")
![380 112 waits to leave with its passengers off the Arran Ferry on the drizzly morning of 29/10/2016.<br>
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Ardrossan Harbour is the recipient of a Bronze station award, details of these awards can be found on the <a target=external href=http://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/local-environmental-quality/local-environmental-quality-network/news/scotlands-railway-stations-setting-new-environmental-standards/>Keep Scotland Beautiful</a> website.<br><br>[David Panton 29/10/2016]](/images/57000/57036.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
![380111 crosses Princes Street to enter Ardrossan Town with a Glasgow bound train. Ailsa Craig is on the horizon.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60327.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![380111 at Ardrossan Town. This station formerly had two through platforms and a bay platform (to the right, often used for Largs trains) and sidings on both sides. The station building succumbed some time in the early 2000s but the goods shed remains in use by several businesses. Unfortunately the classic view of the station from the castle is no longer possible, authorities having fenced it off for our own protection. This is the view by the <a href=http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst12024.html target=external>Alexander MacFadzean memorial</a>.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60459.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![380111 leaving Ardrossan Town, passing the platform extension at the north end. The South Beach (the actual beach, not the station) is seen in the background.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60470.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![380111 crosses Princes Street on its way to Ardrossan Harbour. The crossing is protected with half barriers. On the left is a new building built on the site of the station building.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60478.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Looking over the site of Winton Pier station towards the buffers. The wall in the foreground was the wall on the west side of the station, now the back wall of the covered walking way from Ardrossan Harbour to the CalMac terminal.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60480.jpg "Ardrossan Winton Pier")
![The reverse (non station) side of the former goods shed at Ardrossan Town, now given over to other uses. In the background on Castlehill is the MacFadzean Memorial.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60507.jpg "Ardrossan Town")
![Castlehill Junction with the route left to Largs now somewhat overgrown. Also ahead was the second G&SW Ardrossan shed, somewhere in those trees.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60522.jpg "Castlehill Junction")
![A Ardrossan Harbour bound 380108 approaches Ardrossan South Beach viewed through electrical clutter. The tower of St Cuthbert's Church looks on.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60529.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![380108 leaves Ardrossan South Beach. The lesser used line to the left is dedicated to freight from Hunterston. Perhaps one day to become passenger again.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60549.jpg "Ardrossan South Beach")
![380108 takes the Ardrossan Harbour line at Holm Junction. Ahead is the turnback siding and to the right the Largs branch.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60578.jpg "Holm Junction")
![380 111 at Ardrossan Harbour with a service to Glasgow Central, on 14 August. On the left is the red funnel of MV Caledonian Isles with a Brodick sailing.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/08/2017]](/images/60000/60541.jpg "Ardrossan Harbour")
