History
The station opened on 17 May 1906, and closed on 2 March 1942. The platform roof was sold to Dumbarton F.C. in 1957 and used as a terrace cover at the football club's former ground at Boghead Park. Its significance as a railway station can still be linked to the famous Turnberry Hotel and Glub House which displays an original railway poster by Claude Buckle showing the Turnberry Hotel in 1932.
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