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Kilmacolm
Kilmacolm station in 1979.
General information
LocationKilmacolm, Inverclyde
Scotland
Coordinates55°53′35″N 4°37′46″W / 55.8931°N 4.6295°W / 55.8931; -4.6295
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyGreenock and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-groupingGlasgow and South Western Railway
Post-groupingLMS
Key dates
23 December 1869Opened as Kilmacolm[1]
1 December 1904Renamed: Kilmacolm G&SW[1]
1907Station largely Rebuilt
2 February 1959Became terminal passenger station of Paisley Canal Line
10 January 1983Closed[1]

Kilmacolm railway station was a railway station serving the village of Kilmacolm, in the current council area of Inverclyde and the historic county of Renfrewshire in the West-Central Lowlands of Scotland. It was originally part of the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway, later a line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway.

The station was opened in 1869. Services west to Greenock were discontinued in 1959 and services to the east and into Glasgow ended in 1983 when the station was closed.

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