Kilbirnie - Transport

Transport

Kilbirnie railway station was part of the Dalry and North Johnstone Line on the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The station opened on 1 June 1905, and closed to passengers on 27 June 1966. The station's island platform remains in place and intact; the trackbed is now part of the Sustrans National Cycle Route 7. Kilbirnie South railway station served Kilbirnie as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway (L&AR). The station opened 2 December 1889 as Kilbirnie. Upon the grouping of the L&AR into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923, the station was renamed Kilbirnie South on 2 June 1924. The station closed to passengers and freight on 1 December 1930. A photograph of 1936 shows that the station remained intact but was already overgrown, however Nothing remains of the station today.