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Lanarkshire And Ayrshire Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Crude map of the route of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/63.jpg "MAP")
![Looking west at the now demolished station building at Neilston (High) station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/87.jpg "Neilston")
![Looking south at the former Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/668.jpg "Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier")
![303 heading for Neilston having left Cathcart. This was the site of the junction on the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway between the line to Glasgow Central and line to Newton.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7486.jpg "Cathcart West Junction")
![Overgrown remains of Kilbirnie (Caley) station. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8212.jpg "Kilbirnie (South)")
![Cathcart station & west junction. Inner Circle train arriving.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/04/1948]](/images/8000/8865.jpg "Cathcart West Junction")
![C.R. 0.4.4T 15228 leaving Cathcart on Uplawmoor train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/06/1948]](/images/8000/8866.jpg "Cathcart West Junction")
![On a misty November morning in 1948, Caley <I>Jumbo</I> 57307 of Hamilton (West) shed takes a freight over Waulkmill Glen Viaduct between Patterton and the former Lyoncross Junction. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/11/1948]](/images/49000/49094.jpg "Waulkmill Glen Viaduct")
![Patterton station. 2.6.4T 42201 on Uplawmoor train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1949]](/images/7000/7467.jpg "Patterton")
![Caley 'Jumbo' 57307 ambles through Patterton on Saturday 16 July 1949 with a short goods train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1949]](/images/49000/49823.jpg "Patterton")
![McIntosh ex-Caledonian 0-4-4T 55225 arrives at Whitecraigs on 9 May 1950 with a Glasgow train. [See image 46508]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/05/1950]](/images/50000/50465.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Crab 2-6-0 42780 at Muirend on 29 June 1950 shunting stock on the spur of the line to Clarkston East Junction [see image 9185].<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/06/1950]](/images/50000/50332.jpg "Muirend")
![A Whitecraigs - Glasgow train leaving Williamwood on 17 August 1951. The locomotive is McIntosh ex-Caledonian 0-4-4T 55235.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/08/1951]](/images/51000/51543.jpg "Williamwood")
![2.6.4T 42243 on 5.12pm to Uplawmoor at Williamwood Halt.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/10/1951]](/images/9000/9078.jpg "Williamwood")
![2.6.4T 42243 on 5.12pm to Uplawmoor at Williamwood Halt.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/10/1951]](/images/9000/9079.jpg "Williamwood")
![An Uplawmoor - Glasgow Central train approaching Muirend station on 6 October 1953 behind BR Standard tank 80023. The line running off to the left of the train is part of the Muirend to Clarkston East spur.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/10/1953]](/images/59000/59103.jpg "Muirend")
![42275 approaching Williamwood from the Muirend direction in June 1955 with a train for Uplawmoor. The embankment on the right carried the line from Muirend to Clarkston East Junction and was used from time to time for the storage of carriages and wagons awaiting repair or scrapping. [See image 9185] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/06/1955]](/images/49000/49991.jpg "Williamwood")
![The 5.12pm Glasgow Central - Uplawmoor train crossing Waulkmill Glen Viaduct near Patterton on 11 July 1956. At the head of the train is Fairburn 2-6-4 tank 42238. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/07/1956]](/images/49000/49884.jpg "Waulkmill Glen Viaduct")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T 80113 reaches the end of its journey as it runs into Uplawmoor station on 11 July 1956 with the 5.42pm train from Glasgow Central. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/07/1956]](/images/54000/54310.jpg "Uplawmoor [1st]")
![BR Standard class 4 80056 diverging at Cathcart West Junction on 28 August 1957 with a train for Whitecraigs. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/08/1957]](/images/55000/55940.jpg "Cathcart West Junction")
![Black 5 no 45007 passing Ardrossan North on 5 July 1959 with a train for Montgomerie Pier. The train has just passed the large Shell refinery in the left background. Ardrossan North station had been closed since 1932, although Montgomerie Pier survived until 1967. The refinery closed in 1986. [See image 23867]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/07/1959]](/images/50000/50772.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![Sunlit Fairburn tank 42243 with a Glasgow bound train at Ardrossan North on 5 July 1959. The Shell refinery stands in the right background. The line to the right formerly served the engine shed.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/07/1959]](/images/59000/59965.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-4T no 80129 approaching Ardrossan North on 5 July 1959 with a train for Montgomerie Pier. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/07/1959]](/images/62000/62018.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![Jubilee 45724 <I>Warspite</I> approaching Ardrossan North heading for Montgomerie Pier in the summer of 1959. The train is a Women's Guild special from Newcastle. [Ref query 695] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1959]](/images/58000/58052.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![73061 photographed near Muirend on 29 April 1960 with a Neilston High - Glasgow Central train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/04/1960]](/images/60000/60487.jpg "Muirend")
![42059 heads south away from Neilston High on 28 April 1960 with a train for Uplawmoor. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 28/04/1960]](/images/50000/50850.jpg "Neilston High")
![A DMU for Uplawmoor approaching Muirend on 29 April 1960. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/04/1960]](/images/49000/49425.jpg "Muirend")
![A train from Glasgow Central destined for Patterton about to enter Muirend station on 29 April 1960. The locomotive is Polmadie's Fairburn 2-6-4T 42055. Note the tidy coal yard and broom!<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/04/1960]](/images/51000/51989.jpg "Muirend")
![Looking north through Muirend station in April 1960. A location much 'rationalised' over the years, although the main station building thankfully survives. [See image 14923]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/04/1960]](/images/52000/52016.jpg "Muirend")
![Fairburn tank 42242 arrives at Muirend on 16 May 1960 with the 5.42pm to Uplawmoor.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/05/1960]](/images/60000/60557.jpg "Muirend")
![Fairburn tank 42060 photographed leaving Williamwood on 17 May 1960 with the 5.12pm Glasgow Central - Uplawmoor service.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/05/1960]](/images/51000/51083.jpg "Williamwood")
![A view from the East Kilbride line of 42144 near Williamwood on 17 May 1960 with the 5.24pm Glasgow Central to Whitecraigs train. The embankment in the background carries the spur from Muirend to Clarkston East Junction. [Ref query 6879]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/05/1960]](/images/52000/52388.jpg "Williamwood")
![A Glasgow Central - Neilston High train leaving Muirend on 17 May 1960 behind Fairburn tank 42268. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/05/1960]](/images/54000/54966.jpg "Muirend")
![Empty stock at Lugton East sidings on 25 June 1956 behind Fairburn tank 42208. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/05/1960]](/images/56000/56751.jpg "Lugton East Junction")
![A train for Neilston High has just cleared the bridge carrying the East Kilbride line approaching Williamwood on 21 May 1960. Locomotive in charge is Fairburn 2-6-4 tank 42127. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 21/05/1960]](/images/49000/49396.jpg "Williamwood")
![Taking on water at Ardrossan North on 24 May 1960. The locomotive is thought to be McIntosh Caledonian 3F 0-6-0T 56282. [Ref query 5143]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1960]](/images/50000/50543.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![The former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway Junction at Kilwinning East on 24 May 1960 looking south. The line to Irvine (Bank Street) veered left and the Ardrossan line right. [Ref query 12308]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1960]](/images/51000/51478.jpg "Kilwinning East Junction")
![The road approach to Ardrossan North station, viewed from the south east on 24 May 1960. The tall chimneys in the background are part of the large Shell refinery on the west side of the line [see image 23867]. By this time the station had been closed to passengers for some 28 years (July 1932). Demolition of the building would be completed by 1965, with the site subsequently used for lorry/coach parking.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/05/1960]](/images/51000/51717.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![80107 leaving Neilston High on 8 August 1960 with a Glasgow Central - Uplawmoor train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/08/1960]](/images/51000/51261.jpg "Neilston High")
![View over Ardrossan North station in August 1960, looking towards the harbour. The station had closed to passengers in 1932. [See image 51717]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 24/08/1960]](/images/56000/56264.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![BR Standard class 4 tank 80127 waits to leave Patterton on 8 September 1960 with a train for Glasgow. [Ref query 32665]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/09/1960]](/images/55000/55689.jpg "Patterton")
![A view south over the site of the never opened Lyoncross station on 8 September 1960, with BR Standard tank 80107 passing on a Neilston High - Glasgow Central train. The junction was beyond the train on the other side of Aurs Road.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/09/1960]](/images/60000/60882.jpg "Lyoncross")
![Standard tank 80023 passing the site of Lyoncross Junction on 20 September 1960 with the 6.18pm Glasgow Central - Neilston High train. [Ref query 19633]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 20/09/1960]](/images/53000/53868.jpg "Lyoncross Junction")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T 42244 passing the site of Lyoncross Junction on 29 September 1960 with the 12.11pm Glasgow Central - Neilston High. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 29/09/1960]](/images/55000/55609.jpg "Lyoncross Junction")
![<I>Jumbo</I> 57329 shunting Patterton goods yard on a cold December morning in 1960. [Ref query 9579]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/12/1960]](/images/49000/49334.jpg "Patterton")
![A DMU calls at Whitecraigs on 2 December 1960 with a Glasgow Central - Neilston High service. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/12/1960]](/images/49000/49461.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![A Neilston High - Glasgow Central DMU drops down from Patterton towards Whitecraigs on 2 December 1960. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/12/1960]](/images/50000/50709.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73058 running between Uplawmoor and Lugton East Junction with empty stock on 15 June 1961. [Ref query 6575]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/06/1961]](/images/49000/49184.jpg "Uplawmoor [1st]")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T 42055 arriving at Lugton East Junction on 15 June 1961 The locomotive is heading for the sidings with the empty stock from an Uplawmoor train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/06/1961]](/images/53000/53874.jpg "Lugton East Junction")
![The empty stock of a Glasgow Central - Uplawmoor train at Lugton East sidings on 15 June 1961. Locomotive is Polmadie shed's Fairburn 2-6-4 tank 42055. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/06/1961]](/images/57000/57034.jpg "Lugton East Sidings")
![Fairburn 2-6-4T 42056 at the site of Lugton East Junction on 21 March 1962 with the empty stock of a Glasgow Central - Uplawmoor train. Photographed shortly before the withdrawal of passenger services between Neilston and Uplawmoor. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 21/03/1962]](/images/55000/55001.jpg "Lugton East Junction")
![Fairburn tank 42056 passing Shilford with the 5.12pm Glasgow - Uplawmoor train on 27 March 1962. The joint line can be seen top left passing through Shilford Gap at the top of Neilston bank.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/03/1962]](/images/54000/54044.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![Fairburn tank 42059 has just run past the up distant for Neilston on 27 March 1962 with the 5.42pm Glasgow Central - Uplawmoor train. [Ref query 7522] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/03/1962]](/images/54000/54512.jpg "Neilston High")
![An empty DMU set leaves Uplawmoor station to run to Lugton where it will reverse. The photograph was taken on 30 March 1962, the penultimate day of passenger services to Uplawmoor. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/03/1962]](/images/49000/49529.jpg "Uplawmoor [1st]")
![A DMU approaching Neilston High from Uplawmoor on 30 March 1962 with the last passenger service of the day. [Ref query 6566] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/03/1962]](/images/49000/49827.jpg "Neilston High")
![The 4.14pm from Glasgow Central arrives at Uplawmoor for the last time on 30 March 1962.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/03/1962]](/images/50000/50378.jpg "Uplawmoor [1st]")
![In the hills above Shilford on a spring afternoon in late March 1962. The train is the 5.12pm Glasgow Central - Uplawmoor and the locomotive is Fairburn 2-6-4 tank 42056. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/03/1962]](/images/54000/54907.jpg "Shilford Summit")
![54465 with last day of steam railtour to Beith<br><br>[John Robin 27/05/1962]](/images/6000/6582.jpg "Neilston High")
![54465 with last day of steam railtour to Beith.<br><br>[John Robin 27/05/1962]](/images/6000/6583.jpg "Uplawmoor [1st]")
![Last train to Uplawmoor with Caley Bogie 54465. It will continue to Beith Town.<br><br>[John Robin 27/05/1962]](/images/9000/9544.jpg "Uplawmoor [1st]")
![CR Pickersgill 3P 4-4-0 no 54465 at Whitecraigs on 27 May 1962 with a special to Beith. <br><br>[John Robin 27/05/1962]](/images/46000/46519.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![[Railscot note: probably Lugton East exchange sidings, in the V of Lugton East Junction.]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/06/1962]](/images/9000/9595.jpg "Lugton East Sidings")
![Lugton (East) Junction. Stephenson Locomotive Society Tour.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/06/1962]](/images/9000/9596.jpg "Lugton East Sidings")
![Giffen. Caledonian 18.5 inch 0.6.0 57581. SLS Tour.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/06/1962]](/images/9000/9597.jpg "Giffen")
![Giffen. Caledonian 18.5 inch 0.6.0 57581. SLS Tour.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/06/1962]](/images/9000/9598.jpg "Giffen")
![Uplawmoor. Caledonian 18.5 inch 0.6.0 57581. SLS Tour.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/06/1962]](/images/9000/9599.jpg "Uplawmoor [1st]")
![Giffen. Caledonian 18.5 inch 0.6.0 57581. SLS Tour.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/06/1962]](/images/9000/9600.jpg "Giffen")
![57581 with the SLS <I>Glasgow South Rail Tour</I> at Giffen in June 1962.<br><br>[K A Gray 09/06/1962]](/images/28000/28844.jpg "Giffen")
![The SLS <I>Glasgow South Railtour</I> shortly after arrival at Giffen behind ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 no 57581 on 9 June 1962. The Royal Navy armament depot stands in the background.<br><br>[K A Gray 09/06/1962]](/images/30000/30739.jpg "Giffen")
![McIntosh 0-6-0 no 57581 at Lugton East on 9 June 1962 during a visit with the SLS <I>Glasgow South Rail Tour</I> which originated from Glasgow Central. [See image 9596]<br><br>[K A Gray 09/06/1962]](/images/36000/36002.jpg "Lugton East Sidings")
![Steam locomotives stored in Lugton sidings on 26 June 1962 included Jubilee 45711 <I>Courageous</I> and class 2P 40621.<br><br>[John Robin 26/06/1962]](/images/45000/45533.jpg "Lugton East Sidings")
![Corkerhill Jubilee 45665 <I>Lord Rutherford of Nelson</I> stored in Lugton sidings on 26 June 1962. 'Official' withdrawal by BR did not take place until several months after the photograph was taken, although the locomotive's next and final journey would be back to Glasgow, where it was cut up in the yard of Messrs Campbell at Shieldhall in December 1963.<br><br>[John Robin 26/06/1962]](/images/45000/45766.jpg "Lugton East Sidings")
![View over the remains of Ardrossan North station on 29 December 1962 with the Shell refinery in the background. (During WWII aviation fuel for the RAF was produced here.) Fireless 0-4-0 steam locomotive no 8 [AB1952/1928] is at work shunting bitumen tanks. The refinery closed in 1986 [see image 23867].<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/12/1962]](/images/37000/37623.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![Fireless 0-4-0 steam locomotive no 8 [AB1952/1928] stands alongside the Shell refinery adjacent to the former Ardrossan North station on 29 December 1962. [See image 37623]<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/12/1962]](/images/38000/38050.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![Looking south from Muirend station on a wet Saturday 11 April 1964 as Black 5s 44899 and 44979 store the empty stock of football specials on the Muirend to Clarkston East spur.<br><br>[John Robin 11/04/1964]](/images/9000/9185.jpg "Muirend")
![Black 5 44979 with empty stock from a football special at Muirend on 11 April 1964.<br><br>[John Robin 11/04/1964]](/images/46000/46678.jpg "Muirend")
![Hurlford shed's 45124 causes a stir amongst passengers on the platform at Williamwood awaiting their usual emu on a wet Saturday 11 April 1964. The Black 5 is on its way to Kings Park with a football special from Kilmarnock.<br><br>[John Robin 11/04/1964]](/images/47000/47282.jpg "Williamwood")
![57581 pictured with the Glasgow South Railtour at RNAD Giffen on 9 June 1964 after running round in the exchange sidings.<br><br>[K A Gray 09/06/1964]](/images/31000/31176.jpg "Kilbirnie Junction")
![An EE Type 1 approaches the bridge under the East Kilbride line near Williamwood with a weedkiller train on 30 May 1965 with spraying in progress.<br><br>[John Robin 30/05/1965]](/images/10000/10218.jpg "Williamwood")
![Ex-LNER B1 4-6-0 no 61342 of Eastfield shed brings <I>Scottish Rambler No 5</I> back from Ardrossan's Montgomerie Pier on 10 April 1966 towards the platforms of Ardrossan North station, from which the photograph was taken. The line over the level crossing below the footbridge provided a link with the G&SW system which ran to Winton Pier.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/04/1966]](/images/21000/21591.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![<I>Scottish Rambler no 5</I> at Ardrossan North on 10 April 1966 during the trip from Glasgow Central to Montgomerie Pier. The locomotive in charge is Eastfield B1 no 61342. The view is east from the footbridge spanning the spur to the junction with the G&SW route to Winton Pier. The lines to Montgomerie Pier run off to the left. The station building had been demolished by this time with the site being used for parking. Dominating the background is the large Shell refinery and its associated sidings. Production there ceased in 1986. [See image 15068] <br>
<br><br>[K A Gray 10/04/1966]](/images/23000/23867.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![<I>'I'll see your five and raise you another ten...'</I> Stopover at Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier for Eastfield B1 no 61342 with the much - travelled <I>Scottish Rambler No 5</I> on 10 April 1966, prior to heading off on the next leg of the tour to Girvan.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/04/1966]](/images/23000/23925.jpg "Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier")
![B1 4-6-0 no 61342 stands at the platform at Montgomerie Pier, Ardrossan, on 10 April 1966 with <I>Scottish Rambler No 5</I> from Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/04/1966]](/images/24000/24347.jpg "Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier")
![B1 4-6-0 no 61342 brings <I>Scottish Rambler no 5</I> into Ardrossan North on 10 April 1966 following a visit to Montgomerie Pier. The Shell refinery and its associated sidings form the backdrop.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/04/1966]](/images/25000/25001.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![<I>Scottish Rambler No 5</I> arriving at the former Ardrossan North station on 10 April 1966. B1 4-6-0 no 61342 of Eastfield shed has just brought the train back from a visit to Montgomerie Pier. The line over the level crossing below the footbridge provided a link with the G&SW line to Winton Pier. Part of the large Shell refinery and its associated sidings can be seen off to the right.<br><br>[K A Gray 10/04/1966]](/images/30000/30058.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![The BLS/SLS <I>Scottish Rambler No 5</I> on arrival at Ardrossan's Montgomie Pier station on 10 April 1966 from Glasgow Central behind B1 no 61342.<br><br>[K A Gray 10/04/1966]](/images/30000/30316.jpg "Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier")
![B1 no 61342 with 'Scottish Rambler no 3' stands at Giffen on 10 April 1966.<br><br>[Andy Carr Collection 10/04/1966]](/images/34000/34558.jpg "Kilbirnie Junction")
![One of William Robertson Shipowners finest MV Amethyst (Gem Line of Glasgow) unloading Paper Pulp bales from Norway for a paper mill on to railway wagons<br><br>[Gordon Steel 31/05/1972]](/images/62000/62055.jpg "Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier")
![The then daily monotony of Class 303/311 EMUs is relieved at Patterton by a PW train on November 18th 1984. Leading is 37146 with 37056 at the rear. Repairs were underway at a bridge on the Neilston side of the station.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 18/11/1984]](/images/21000/21482.jpg "Patterton")
![Class 303 and 311 EMUs at the Neilston terminus in February 1985. The visit was notable because of the effort it took to pay my fare. The ticket office clerk initially waved me away, saying that my destination was unmanned and no one would be checking on the train!<br><br>[Mark Dufton /02/1985]](/images/24000/24933.jpg "Neilston")
![Looking west at a Class 303 from beside the former station building at Neilston.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/0/86.jpg "Neilston")
![Looking west at Neilston station with a class 303 from nearby roadbridge.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/0/88.jpg "Neilston")
![Looking east over the remains of Uplawmoor station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/0/169.jpg "Uplawmoor [1st]")
![Looking east at the remains of Uplawmoor station from platform level.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/0/170.jpg "Uplawmoor [1st]")
![Neilston (High) sporting a building and canopies. Building now demolished.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7738.jpg "Neilston")
![Neilston (High). Back when stations had staff. The entire staff standing next to the now demolished station building. Note adverts for Prestwick Airport and InterCity sleepers.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7739.jpg "Neilston")
![Neilston train at Muirend. Lovely station building and good shed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7776.jpg "Muirend")
![View across Waulkmill Glen Viaduct to the west of Patterton looking west to Lyoncross.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7825.jpg "Waulkmill Glen Viaduct")
![Whitecraigs looking to Neilston.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7826.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Whitecraigs station during renovation work in 1987.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7827.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Whitecraigs looking to Glasgow.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7828.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![The entire staff of Muirend station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7829.jpg "Muirend")
![Leaving for Glasgow. The trackbed leading the the goods yard (right) has been landscaped.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7830.jpg "Muirend")
![Station building, late Caley style.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7831.jpg "Muirend")
![Muirend, looking east. Note there are two footbridges to the station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7832.jpg "Muirend")
![There are two bridges at Williamwood; the main alignment (distant) and a spur to the East Kilbride line used from 1903/4-1907 for freight to the Hamilton area, to serve the Lanarkshire steelworks, closed after the L&A was completed to Newton. The station obliterated Clarkston West Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7833.jpg "Williamwood")
![Williamwood showing the 1979 building.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7834.jpg "Williamwood")
![One time Clarkston West Junction. Williamwood station obliterates the site of the junction. Looking to Glasgow (and East Kilbride).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7835.jpg "Williamwood")
![Neilston bound at Whitecraigs.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7836.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Eastbound train at Kirkhill about to enter the tunnel.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8033.jpg "Kirkhill")
![Kings Park looking east. There used to be a loop on the left hand side.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8046.jpg "Kings Park")
![Kings Park looking west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8047.jpg "Kings Park")
![Kings Park looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8048.jpg "Kings Park")
![Burnside station access from roadway.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8050.jpg "Burnside")
![The fine building that stood above the tunnel at Kirkhill station, seen here in 1987. The line is down below with ramps providng access to each platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8051.jpg "Kirkhill")
![Eastbound at Kirkhill.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8052.jpg "Kirkhill")
![This rambling station ... Ardrossan North, the through platforms. The bay platforms were to the right. There were sufficient glazed canopies (6) to cover Buchanan Streets platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8161.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![The approach to Ardrossan North, now houses. Left to right; coal yard (in use in 80s), station and locomotive shed. In the distance is the Shell refinery.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8162.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![Ardrossan North looking to Montgomerie Pier. The station building was to the left and Shell refinery to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8163.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![Ardrossan North looking to Montgomerie Pier. The line here stayed open until the 80s for the coal siding and Shell refinery.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8164.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![Ardrossan North from the overbridge looking to Montgomerie Pier. The trackbed to the right betrays that the Shell refinery sidings have just been lifted.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8165.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![View of Ardrossan North coal yard taken, accidentally, from the same viewpoint as Geo C. OHaras 6 years earlier. The main line ran from left to the overbridge centre left. Now built on.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8169.jpg "Ardrossan North Goods")
![Bridge over a stream on the Dennyholm Mill siding. The view looks east to a level crossing.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8209.jpg "Dennyholm Mill")
![Level Crossing gate by Kilbirnie (Caledonian). This gate was on the Dennyholm Mill siding, reached by reversal.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8210.jpg "Dennyholm Mill")
![Lantern Waste. Looking to the buffers at Kilbirnie (Caley). Little left and what there was was overgrown, except this lamppost.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8211.jpg "Kilbirnie [2nd]")
![Looking south at Gree Viaduct (on the Caledonian Railway's Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway) over the 'Giffen Branch' (the Beith Branch of the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway) in 1989. The viaduct was demolished in January/February 2008. Note the recently rusted rails - the Giffen line was still in use at the time.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/28000/28905.jpg "Gree Viaduct")
![Remains of the signal box looking to Glasgow at Lugton East junction. Here a spur to the G&SWR station left the L&AR. This was where local trains from Glasgow to Uplawmoor were able to run round before returning, there being no crossover at Uplawmoor.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/55000/55894.jpg "Lugton East Junction")
![View towards Ardrossan at Lugton High in 1996. The double track and two platforms were in line with the right hand portion of the building.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/60000/60229.jpg "Lugton High")
![Unfortunately by 1996 this is what remained of the Caledonian station in Kilwinning. The station platforms ran from the trees to the left, into the foreground alongside the wall. After much landscaping whatever was left was in those trees. Further redevelopment has seen the grassy area become a car park.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/60000/60915.jpg "Kilwinning East")
![The last purpose built surviving building within the old goods yard at Irvine Bank Street in 1997. View looks north. The former station building on Bank Street itself, originally a house, is now office accommodation.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/52000/52157.jpg "Irvine Bank Street")
![Giffen Junction looking north to Barrmill Junction in 1997. The line was still in use, but perhaps only for the annual weedkilling train! This location has a complicated history of opening dates and closures. The original Barrmill and Kilwinning devised route was straight ahead and the Caledonian's determination to wholly own their own route to Ardrossan is to the right. The Giffenmill Viaduct was still standing and can be seen on the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/60000/60939.jpg "Giffen Junction")
![A Class 303 emu on a service from Newton to Glasgow Central via Maxwell Park in September 1997 is photographed skirting Cathcart station.<br><br>[David Panton /09/1997]](/images/25000/25430.jpg "Cathcart West Junction")
![The site of Lyoncross Junction looking west in 1998. The line on the left beyond the trees is the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire route towards Neilston, with the trackbed on the right the remnants of the Paisley and Barrhead District Railway. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/52000/52208.jpg "Lyoncross Junction")
![This view is south east over the site of the Caledonian Railway's Bogside Moor Halt. This was a single platform station in a cutting (now infilled) - the platform was on the left and a siding was on the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/60000/60874.jpg "Bogside Moor Halt")
![After closure of the Caledonian Railway's Irvine Bank Street terminus the site became a light industrial estate. This shed occupied the station area. The single platform was on the right, there was a loco release line and the goods yard on the left. The brick feature on the left is probably not the platform, but at a similar site. The shed has since been demolished and this is now the Caledonian Car Park - nice touch.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/60000/60908.jpg "Irvine Bank Street")
![A 303 reaches the end of its journey at Neilston and changes tracks. The goods shed is on the right. This was approached from the location of the train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/60000/60919.jpg "Neilston")
![303 016 arrives at Kirkhill in March 1998 with a service for Newton.<br><br>[David Panton /03/1998]](/images/18000/18251.jpg "Kirkhill")
![303 016 emerges from the long bridge under Greenlees Road into Kirkhill station in March 1998, its first stop on a Newton to Glasgow Central via Maxwell Park service.<br><br>[David Panton 22/03/1998]](/images/22000/22440.jpg "Kirkhill")
![303s at Neilston in July 1998. 055 (left) about to leave to return to Glasgow Central and 019 just arrived.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/18000/18886.jpg "Neilston")
![A view of the concrete southbound platform at Uplawmoor taken from the remains of the northbound platform. To the north/east of here the trackbed remained in a remarkable state of preservation for several miles in the 1980s with each sleeper indentation obvious in the ballast, up until it was dug up for a gas main. [Ref query 1024]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1999]](/images/59000/59359.jpg "Uplawmoor [1st]")
![A class 303 bound for Glasgow Central stands at Williamwood in July 1999, while another example in the background heads for Neilston.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1999]](/images/29000/29051.jpg "Williamwood")
![All windows open as a class 303 leaves Williamwood and heads for Neilston in July 1999.<br><br>[David Panton 19/07/1999]](/images/20000/20676.jpg "Williamwood")
![A class 303 emu calls at Whitecraigs with a Neilston-Glasgow service in 2000<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //2000]](/images/26000/26579.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![A Neilston - Glasgow Central service arriving at Whitecraigs station in July 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/2005]](/images/4000/4699.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![A gem on the south side of Glasgow. Opened by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway in 1903, the station at Whitecraigs was originally (and unofficially) described in timetables of the day as the evocative <I>Whitecraigs for Rouken Glen</I>. Now served by electric services on the Neilston line the station approach (west side) is seen here in July 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/2005]](/images/32000/32709.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Smart looking goods shed in the old yard at Neilston in August 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/08/2006]](/images/10000/10390.jpg "Neilston")
![Scene at Neilston on 20 August 2006, as a class 314 EMU, resplendent in orange and black livery, runs into platform 1 from the turnback siding ready to head back to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/08/2006]](/images/10000/10502.jpg "Neilston")
![Colourful scene at Neilston station on 20 August 2006 as a terminating service arrives from Glasgow Central. Unit 314202 is the last train to carry SPT orange and black livery. Shame.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/08/2006]](/images/10000/10920.jpg "Neilston")
![The former goods facilities standing alongside Neilston station in August 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/08/2006]](/images/12000/12887.jpg "Neilston")
![Auchenmade looking north towards Giffen.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/10/2006]](/images/11000/11613.jpg "Auchenmade")
![Giffen Junction looking to Barrmill. The line straight on was the original, replaced with the line from Lugton East which was to the right but was lifted some time ago.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/10/2006]](/images/11000/11447.jpg "Giffen Junction")
![Giffenmill viaduct, immediately east of Giffen Junction on the line from Giffen to Lugton East, has been demolished. The concrete was crushed and removed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/10/2006]](/images/11000/11448.jpg "Giffenmill Viaduct")
![Giffen looking to Kilbirnie Junction where the RNAD Giffen sidings were. The track remains in place but is moldering away.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/10/2006]](/images/11000/11449.jpg "Giffen")
![A Newton train arriving at Kirkhill on 15 April 2007. View from the road bridge over the broad mezzanine level where the station building once stood. [See image 8051]<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/14000/14583.jpg "Kirkhill")
![The fact that Kings Park is a station serving nearby Hampden and thus the destination for many football specials over the years is reflected in the wide stairway with heavy duty side barriers and double handrails. There's still a certain atmosphere about the place, even at 8 o'clock on a quiet Sunday morning.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/14000/14605.jpg "Kings Park")
![Looking along the platform at Croftfoot on 15 April 2007. View is west towards Kings Park. [Ref query 7473]<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/14000/14687.jpg "Croftfoot")
![<I>Oops!</I> An unfortunate case of <I>Photo-Interruptus</I>. Early Sunday morning scene at Burnside station on 15 April 2007 with no trains due for some time as I emerge from the entrance stairway with a camera looking west... and a little embarrassed... <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/14000/14761.jpg "Burnside")
![Entrance to Kings Park station from Kingsbridge Drive on 15 April 2007. View is west towards Cathcart East Junction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/14000/14762.jpg "Kings Park")
![Approaching Burnside station on a Sunday morning, half expecting to hear the strains of Bach's Fugue in A minor coming from the doorway... A distinctly ecclesiastical atmosphere surrounds the eastern entrance to the station, seen here early on 15 April 2007 sandwiched between the bridges on Stonelaw Road.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/28000/28126.jpg "Burnside")
![Morning view over Kings Park station on 15 April 2007, looking west from Kingsbridge Drive. The large building on the horizon is Cathcart House, headquarters of Scottish Power, although plans are afoot to relocate operations to a new building in the city centre.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/28000/28171.jpg "Kings Park")
![Looking across Stonelaw Road on the southside of Glasgow on 15 April 2007 towards the interesting main entrance to the 1904 station at Burnside.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/46000/46574.jpg "Burnside")
![A quiet Sunday morning at Kirkhill in April 2007, seen here looking north west from the station entrance on Greenlees Road. The wide mezzanine level spanning the platforms once housed the booking office [see image 8051].<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/51000/51576.jpg "Kirkhill")
![A Neilston - Glasgow Central service arriving at Muirend on 6 May 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2007]](/images/15000/15052.jpg "Muirend")
![Passing trains for Glasgow Central and Neilston respectively meet at Muirend station on a Sunday morning in May 2007. View is north east towards Cathcart. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/14000/14923.jpg "Muirend")
![A train for Neilston leaving Williamwood platform 2 on 6 May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/05/2007]](/images/14000/14960.jpg "Williamwood")
![Remains at Ardrossan North in May 2007 with the Arran Ferry berthed in the background. The line continued on to Montgomerie Pier with a link to the G&SW Winton Pier branch turning off to the left just beyond the end of the platforms. A large Shell refinery, together with associated sidings, once occupied much of the land to the right of the picture. Ardrossan North lost its passenger service in 1932. The Shell refinery closed in the 1980s. [See image 23867]<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/05/2007]](/images/15000/15068.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![A newspaper is temporarily abandoned as 314 216 pulls into Whitecraigs on 7 June 2007 with a Neilston - Glasgow Central service.<br><br>[David Panton 07/06/2007]](/images/20000/20655.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![A quiet Sunday morning in June 2007 at Patterton station, looking east from the B769 roadbridge towards Whitecraigs.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15546.jpg "Patterton")
![Train for Newton arriving at Croftfoot station on 8 September.<br><br>[David Panton 08/09/2007]](/images/17000/17272.jpg "Croftfoot")
![314 214 with a service for Glasgow via Queens Park at Kirkhill on 13 October 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 13/10/2007]](/images/18000/18311.jpg "Kirkhill")
![Having reversed at the south end of Neilston station on 10 November, 314 208 picks up passengers for the return journey to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[David Panton 10/11/2007]](/images/17000/17127.jpg "Neilston")
![Train for Neilston at Williamwood on 10 November 2007, emu 314 214.<br><br>[David Panton 10/11/2007]](/images/21000/21157.jpg "Williamwood")
![314 203 with a service for Glasgow Central via Maxwell Park stands at Kings Park station on 19 April 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 19/04/2008]](/images/18000/18781.jpg "Kings Park")
![Newton train at Burnside on 17 May formed by 314216.<br><br>[David Panton 17/05/2008]](/images/19000/19084.jpg "Burnside")
![The generous canopy at Muirend station seen on 14 June looking towards Neilston.<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2008]](/images/19000/19531.jpg "Muirend")
![314 209 pulls away from Muirend on 14 June bound for Glasgow Central.<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2008]](/images/19000/19563.jpg "Muirend")
![314 204 reversing at Kings Park on 28 July 2008 before continuing to Neilston (having arrived from Central non-stop via Maxwell Park). These temporary revised arrangements on the south side resulted from urgent repair work recently carried out at Pollokshields East following subsidence caused by the collapse of old mine workings. <br><br>[David Panton 28/07/2008]](/images/20000/20029.jpg "Kings Park")
![314 215 pulls up at the departure platform at Neilston after reversal on 28 July 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 28/07/2008]](/images/20000/20040.jpg "Neilston")
![City bound train from Neilston about to leave Patterton on 28 July 2008. Ongoing engineering work at Pollokshields East to address subsidence problems means 314 204 will reverse at Kings Park and run to Glasgow Central via Maxwell Park.<br><br>[David Panton 28/07/2008]](/images/20000/20088.jpg "Patterton")
![314 201 pulls into the arrivals platform at Neilston on 28 July 2008 with passengers at platform 1 ready to board the return service to Glasgow following reversal. <br><br>[David Panton 28/07/2008]](/images/20000/20916.jpg "Neilston")
![314 201 comes out of the reversing siding at Neilston on 28 July and is about to draw into platform 1 where it will form the next service to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[David Panton 28/07/2008]](/images/21000/21621.jpg "Neilston")
![Looking west from Kings Park, Cathcart East junction can be seen. The green aspect indicates the next train is going straight ahead and will drop under the Cathcart line to john the inner circle near Mount Florida. The line to the left is the double track link with Cathcart West Juction for the Outer Circle or Neilston. The line on the far right is the chord running in from the Outer Circle to Kings Park and Newton beyond.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22827.jpg "Kings Park")
![Having arrived at Neilston from Glasgow Central, 314215 waits in the down platform before drawing forward into the reversing spur and back into the up platform. The line to Neilston is elevated on a hillside and provides excellent views across the Glasgow suburbs to the Clyde.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22841.jpg "Neilston")
![Neilston, now a terminus rather than a through station, has a country branch line atmosphere despite the overhead electrification and suburban EMUs. 314215 has used the shunting neck to cross over to the departure platform and is now waiting to head back to Glasgow.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/02/2009]](/images/28000/28156.jpg "Neilston")
![A Glasgow Central - Neilston service photographed at Williamwood on 22 May 2009. Unit 314207.<br>
<br><br>[John Steven 22/05/2009]](/images/23000/23800.jpg "Williamwood")
![A Glasgow bound 314 211 approaching Croftfoot station on 15 July.<br>
<br><br>[John Steven 15/07/2009]](/images/24000/24587.jpg "Croftfoot")
![The neat platforms of Burnside station. View west on 15 July 2009.<br><br>[John Steven 15/07/2009]](/images/24000/24592.jpg "Burnside")
![Newton bound 314 212 stands at Burnside on 15 July 2009.<br>
<br><br>[John Steven 15/07/2009]](/images/24000/24605.jpg "Burnside")
![Platform scene at Croftfoot. July 2009.<br><br>[John Steven 15/07/2009]](/images/24000/24610.jpg "Croftfoot")
![314 203 approaching Burnside with a service for to Glasgow Central<br>
<br><br>[John Steven 15/07/2009]](/images/24000/24623.jpg "Burnside")
![314 205 waits in the reversing stub at Neilston on 5 February before re-entering the station (formerly known as Neilston High) to return to Glasgow. The line once continued behind the camera to join the G&SWR main line at Lugton. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 05/02/2011]](/images/32000/32640.jpg "Neilston")
![314 205 on the reversing stub at Neilston, just west of the station, in February 2011. On electrification in 1962 stabling was constructed behind the remaining track but it was removed 15 years <br>
later. That disused yard lamp appears to be a relic. [With thanks to <br>
Stewart Duthie for additional information.] <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 05/02/2011]](/images/32000/32732.jpg "Neilston")
![On 5 February 2011 unit 314 205 pulls out of the reversing stub at Neilston heading for the departure platform to form the next service to Glasgow Central. The following half-hourly terminating service will occupy the stub in a few minutes time, so it's occupied for most of the day. Note the increasingly old-fashioned destination blind still carried by all 314s.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 05/02/2011]](/images/32000/32877.jpg "Neilston")
![314 210 with a service for Glasgow via Maxwell Park calls at Burnside on 26 March 2011.<br><br>[David Panton 26/03/2011]](/images/33000/33414.jpg "Burnside")
![This view looks east to Cathcart station and shows the trackbed and missing bridge of the former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire 'Cathcart bypass' (forgive my description). It is surprising that during the works to slew the track onto their new alignment and junction that some method of building platforms on the route to Newton was not found.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2011]](/images/33000/33751.jpg "Cathcart West Junction")
![The platform presentation of the Platinum award at Whitecraigs station on 5 January 2012. [Left to right Steve Montgomery, Gary MacIntyre, Derek Robertson and Elaine Bell] [See news item].<br><br>[First ScotRail 05/01/2012]](/images/4000/4374.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![This view, from 2014, shows off the attractive Edwardian station building at Whitecraigs. The view is towards Glasgow.<br><br>[Peter Mckinlay //2014]](/images/60000/60081.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Green shoots beginning to appear at Neilston station on St Valentine's Day 2014. At the platform is the 12.00 service to Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/02/2014]](/images/46000/46318.jpg "Neilston")
![Spring is coming at Whitecraigs on St Valentines Day 2014.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/02/2014]](/images/46000/46326.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![While we endure this cold spell, here is a reminder of Summer days. Here is a platform view from 2015 of Whitecraigs.<br><br>[Peter Mckinlay //2015]](/images/62000/62143.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Floral display behind the Whitecraigs bike racks in the summer of 2015. <br>
<br><br>[Peter Mckinlay //2015]](/images/62000/62266.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Quiet afternoon at Croftfoot, 23 June 2015.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 23/06/2015]](/images/51000/51744.jpg "Croftfoot")
![Looking east along Bank Street, Irvine, on 10 December 2015. The young lady is walking past what was once the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway's 1890 terminus in the town. Closed to passengers in 1930, the location continued to handle goods traffic for several years before that too ceased in 1939. The building is currently occupied by an insurance company and a property surveyor. <br><br>[Andy Furnevel 10/12/2015]](/images/53000/53543.jpg "Irvine Bank Street")
![Frontage of the former L&A station on Bank Street, Irvine, on 10 December 2015. [See image 53543]<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 10/12/2015]](/images/53000/53600.jpg "Irvine Bank Street")
![Station adoption can lead to a transformation of the surroundings of a station. Here is some late summer colour at Whitecraigs on the Neilston line.<br><br>[Peter McKinlay 17/08/2016]](/images/56000/56278.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![This was a former road bridge over the Caledonian Railway Irvine line at Pennyburn, Kilwinning. Cutting now filled in.<br><br>[Douglas Blades //2017]](/images/61000/61075.jpg "Kilwinning East Junction")
![314 206, still in SPT livery, calls at Patterton with a service for Glasgow on 04/03/2017.<br><br>[David Panton 04/03/2017]](/images/58000/58345.jpg "Patterton")
![A delightful recent photograph of the floral display at Whitecraigs station, one of many ScotRail stations to be 'adopted'.<br><br>[Peter Mckinlay 08/06/2017]](/images/59000/59656.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Planters on the Neilston bound platform at Whitecraigs in June 2017.<br><br>[Peter McKinlay 08/06/2017]](/images/59000/59760.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Another one of the planters at Whitecraigs station in June 2017.<br><br>[Peter Mckinlay 08/06/2017]](/images/59000/59855.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Having arrived at Platform 2 (foreground) then reversed in the stub beyond<br>
the signal, a Glasgow bound Class 314 enters Platform 1 at Neilston on 17th June 2017.<br><br>[David Panton 17/06/2017]](/images/59000/59817.jpg "Neilston")
![View towards Glasgow at Lugton East. Recent(ish) demolition of the sheds here [see image 60229] has revealed the platform edging - between the platforms is filled with concrete. Platforms can be, just no more, traced in the rough ground beyond. That's one of the platforms in the right foreground, the Kilwinning bound platform. The northbound platform is to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60296.jpg "Lugton High")
![It comes to something when a gate is all that remains of a station. Still, that's more than some. This gate was on the west side of Lugton High, with a railwayman's cottage beyond, in use as a house.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60309.jpg "Lugton High")
![View south of the Ardeer Branch from the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway bridge over it. On the right a curve from Ardeer Junction connected the L&A to the branch. Behind the camera the line formerly met today's Ardrossan branch. Ahead was where the G&SWR and L&AR lines met.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60316.jpg "Ardeer Junction")
![The rambling remains of Ardrossan North have finally fallen to the inevitable development of housing. The bitument works were to the right and the station's platforms have been obliterated on the left. The harbour control tower on Montgomery Pier is in the background right. For a similar view in happier days [see image 56264].<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/08/2017]](/images/60000/60462.jpg "Ardrossan North")
![Giffen is very much reverting to nature. Some earthmoving followed by further tree growth has obscured the remains (and single track which is probably still underneath).<br>
[[See image 11449]] for a similar view eleven years ago.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/08/2017]](/images/60000/60570.jpg "Giffen")
![Kilwinning East Junction, just south of Kilwinning East station was where the lines to Irvine Bank Street (left) and Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier (right) divided. The cutting has been infilled and landscaped. [[See image 51478]]; the retaining wall to the right is the main reminder. View looks south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/09/2017]](/images/60000/60745.jpg "Kilwinning East Junction")
![Former road bridge over the Caledonian Railway Ardrossan line at Pennyburn, Kilwinning. Cutting now filled in.<br><br>[Douglas Blades 13/09/2017]](/images/61000/61470.jpg "Kilwinning East Junction")
![A 318 passes the site of Lyoncross Junction. The lines still pass round the never built island platform. Unfortunately tree growth makes the formation impossible to see at this time of year - but note the odd out of alignment of the catenary.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/60000/60884.jpg "Lyoncross Junction")
![An ex-Neilston 314 216 heads east across the Waukmill Glen Viaduct. For a similar view in 1956 [see image 49884]. Viaducts along the length of the former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire vary in construction technique as it was built in portions over several years.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/60000/60930.jpg "Waulkmill Glen Viaduct")
![The Garnock Viaduct is the most substantial reminder of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire line in Kilwinning. This was north of Kilwinning East. It is not the only viaduct on the closed Kilwinning-Barrmill portion; another crosses over the Kilmarnock branch of the GPK&AR [see image 52333].<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/60000/60934.jpg "Garnock Viaduct")
![It would appear that Network Rail, concerned by the possibility that Waulkmill Glen Viaduct might blow away, have fitted ropes to keep the arches in place. The driver of 314 203 looks on.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/60000/60946.jpg "Waulkmill Glen Viaduct")
![A 314 passes the site of Lyoncross Junction. The Barrhead and Paisley route was in the trees behind the train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/60000/60957.jpg "Lyoncross Junction")
![With the buffer at Neilston at my back this is the view towards Uplawmoor showing the disused trackbed. This was still easily walkable for miles in the 1980s, looks trickier now.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 14/09/2017]](/images/60000/60966.jpg "Neilston")
![The rural nature of the last few miles of the Neilston branch are obvious in the view. 314 206 is heading for Glasgow passing the site of Netherton Goods, which was on the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/09/2017]](/images/61000/61109.jpg "Netherton Goods")
![Gree was on of several countryside goods stations on the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. The site of the yard itself has been infilled but the extraordinary half skew and half not skew bridge which carried the A736 over the track remains intact. This is the view looking to Glasgow.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/09/2017]](/images/61000/61137.jpg "Gree Siding")
![A view north from the site of the station throat at Kilbirnie, Caledonian. The passenger station was to the left and goods yard to the right - the buffer areas of both now being covered by Caledonian Court.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 28/09/2017]](/images/61000/61160.jpg "Kilbirnie (South)")
![The 'N' on the toy signal at the south end of Cathcart station indicates<br>
thet the road is set for a Neilston train - which is just as well. Coming<br>
in from the left is the Newton line, used by trains which are going via<br>
Maxwell Park and therefore (just) avoiding Cathcart. So close and yet no<br>
platforms (nor have there ever been, so far as I know). Alternate Newton<br>
Trains go via Queens Park and take the North Junction, well clear of the<br>
station.​​<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 06/12/2017]](/images/62000/62127.jpg "Cathcart West Junction")
![First stop on the Neilston branch is Muirend, one of several comfortable<br>
suburbs served by the Cathcart lines. On a cold 16th December 2017 a Neilston bound Class 314 pulls out as its last two (well, one and a half) passengers make<br>
their way to the Muirend Road exit.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 16/12/2017]](/images/62000/62335.jpg "Muirend")
![The recently refurbished waiting room and ticket office at Whitecraigs in December 2017. The plants are artificial but help to give a bit a colour!<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Peter Mckinlay 20/12/2017]](/images/62000/62364.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![Part of the photographic display in the recently refurbished Whitecraigs waiting room. Many of the photos on the walls are from the Mitchell Library from steam days. December 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Peter Mckinlay 20/12/2017]](/images/62000/62373.jpg "Whitecraigs")
![A Newton to Glasgow 314 EMU service calls at Kirkhill on the wet Saurday afternoon<br>
of 13th January 2018. I think Kirkhill can be considered the posh end of<br>
Cambuslang.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 13/01/2018]](/images/62000/62593.jpg "Kirkhill")
![The Class 314 forming the 14.28 Neilston to Glasgow on 6 February 2018 carried this notice announcing its impending retirement.<br><br>[John Robin 06/02/2018]](/images/62000/62870.jpg "Neilston")
