Bogside Moor Halt Railway Station

For the station on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway, see Bogside railway station.

Bogside Moor Halt railway station was a railway station near the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

History

Old railway bridge near Bogside.

Located adjacent to the Cadgers' Racecourse on the town moor, this station was open for restricted used by 1893 as Bogside Platform.<ref name="butt38">Butt, page 38</ref> It was renamed Bogside and opened to the general public sometime before September 1909. The station closed between 1 January 1917 and 1 February 1919 due to wartime economy,<ref name="butt38"/><ref name="stansfield27">Stansfield, page 27</ref> and upon the grouping of the L&AR into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 it was renamed Bogside Moor Halt on 2 June 1924.<ref name="butt38"/> Unusually, trains only called at this station upon request.<ref name="stansfield27"/> The station closed to passengers on 28 July 1930,<ref name="butt38"/> but the line saw use for freight trains going to Irvine until 1939.<ref name="stansfield27"/>

No trace of this station exists today.

References

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Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Template:Stansfield-AyrRenfrew
• Wark, Hugh, Webster, John and Higgins, Michael (1972). "Glimpses of a Caledonian Branch". In The Railway Magazine, Volume 118, No. 851. Pages 128 - 131. (March 1972).

Preceding Station	Historical Railways			Following Station
Irvine Line and station closed		Caledonian Railway Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway		Kilwinning Line and station closed