Disused railway lines and closed stations in Inverclyde
- 14 miles of disused railway
- 7 closed stations
- 13 stations open today
- 5 named lost lines
Inverclyde has 14 miles of disused railway and 7 closed stations, against 13 stations still open today. That is 0.5 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Greenock Princes Pier Line, with 7.8 miles of its route inside Inverclyde.
See Inverclyde’s lost railways on the map
The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.
What is left of it
The 14 miles of lost railway in Inverclyde break down as 13 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 1.2 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.
Lost railway lines in Inverclyde
5 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Inverclyde; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.
| Line | Miles in county |
|---|---|
| Greenock Princes Pier Line | 7.8 |
| Clydeport Containerbase Terminal Branch | 0.9 |
| Elderslie No 2 Junction to Kilmacolm Branch | 0.9 |
| Garvel Dock Branch | 0.7 |
| Wemyss Bay Line | 0.6 |
Closed railway stations in Inverclyde
All 7 closed and former stations in Inverclyde, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.
- Greenock Princes Pier Wikipedia
- IBM Wikipedia
- Kilmacolm Wikipedia
- Lynedoch Wikipedia
- Port Glasgow Upper Wikipedia
- Ravenscraig Wikipedia
- Upper Greenock Wikipedia
Stations still open in Inverclyde
13 stations in Inverclyde still have a train service. The busiest are Gourock (400,706 a year), Port Glasgow (390,992 a year), Greenock West (334,786 a year), Greenock Central (244,898 a year) and Wemyss Bay (211,252 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.
Lost railways nearby
Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, Stirling and Argyll and Bute.
About these figures
The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.
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