Dalry railway station

Dalry railway station is a railway station serving the town of Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.

The station was opened on 21 July 1840 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway.^[2] The station originally had two side platforms until the Dalry and North Johnstone Line was opened by the Glasgow and South Western Railway in 1905, when the station was remodeled with four platforms over two islands.^[3] Each new platform was 765 feet (233 m) long to accommodate the increased traffic, and were accessed via gangways from a covered walkway crossing the lines from the station building.^[3]

With the closure of the North Johnstone line to passenger traffic in 1966^[4] and to all other traffic in 1977,^[5] having four lines through the station became superfluous, so the station platforms were remodelled during the line's electrification in the 1980s back to two side platforms.^[1]

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• Guthrie, Arthur. Dalry & District (2nd ed.). Ardrossan: Arthur Guthrie & Sons. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.

• Smith, W.A.C. (2001). Ayrshire's Last Days of Steam. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 1-8403-3151-8. OCLC 47232834.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kilwinning		First ScotRail Ayrshire Coast Line		Glengarnock
	Historical railways
Connection with GPK&AR at Brownhill Junction		Glasgow and South Western Railway Dalry and North Johnstone Line		Kilbirnie Line and station closed
Dalry Junction Line open; station closed		Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway		Glengarnock Line and station open

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