Disused railway lines and closed stations in North Ayrshire

103 miles of disused railway
27 closed stations
12 stations open today
19 named lost lines

North Ayrshire has 103 miles of disused railway and 27 closed stations, against 12 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.2 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, with 13 miles of its route inside North Ayrshire.

See North Ayrshire’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 103 miles of lost railway in North Ayrshire break down as 61 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 36 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 6.0 miles with track still in place but no trains. 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 North Ayrshire

19 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside North Ayrshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway	13
Dalry and Kilmarnock Branch	7.3
Crosshouse to Irvine Line	4.5
Kilbirnie and Giffen Line	4.2
Dalry and North Johnstone Line	3.5
Giffen Branch	3.5
Hunterston High Level Sidings	3.2
Pitcon Railway	2.5
Lugton and Beith Branch	2.1
Swinlees Branch	1.7
Hillhead Railway	1.5
Barkip Railway	1.4
Hunterston Branch	1.2
Doura Branch	0.9
Shewalton Engineers Coup Sidings	0.9
Ardeer Sidings	0.7
Bogside Coal Pit No1	0.6
Ayrshire Coast Line	0.4
Moorpark Road West	0.3

Closed railway stations in North Ayrshire

All 27 closed and former stations in North Ayrshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in North Ayrshire

12 stations in North Ayrshire still have a train service. The busiest are Kilwinning (781,106 a year), Irvine (685,016 a year), Largs (384,942 a year), Glengarnock (290,886 a year) and Saltcoats (275,344 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

Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Ayrshire, Argyll and Bute and Dumfries and Galloway.

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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