• The Largs Branch is a railway line in Scotland, serving communities on the north Ayrshire Coast, as well as the deep water ocean terminal at Hunterston...
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    stations and connects the Ayrshire coast to Glasgow. There are three branches, to Largs, Ardrossan Harbour and Ayr, all running into the high level at Glasgow...
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    Largs railway station is a railway station in the town of Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is owned by Network...
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    Largs. It experienced resistance at first, the Largs Branch opened in stages between 1878 and 1885, with stations at West Kilbride, Fairlie and Largs...
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    still in use as part of the Largs branch, carrying passenger services marketed as the Ayrshire Coast Line. The Doura branch from Dubbs closed, and the...
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    Western Railway as part of the extension of the former Ardrossan Railway to Largs. The present station building was designed in 1900 by the noted architect...
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    the Largs branch of the Ayrshire Coast Line in 1986. The 1,004-yard (918 m) long Fairlie Tunnel is directly to the north of the station. 1tph to Largs 1tph...
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    shoreline. Fairlie Pier provided links to Clyde ferry services and the Largs Branch, and was closed after the final sailing in September 1971. The other...
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    its network and reached Edinburgh and Aberdeen, with a dense network of branch lines in the area surrounding Glasgow. It was absorbed into the London,...
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  • built a branch to Ballachulish, which included the construction of Connel Bridge, a remarkable bridge at Connel over Loch Etive. The branch opened in...
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    line from Edinburgh to Berwick-upon-Tweed with a 4-mile-50-chain (7.4 km) branch to Haddington. The company's chairman and founder was John Learmonth, the...
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    Kilmarnock and Dumfries to Carlisle. When local interests promoted a railway branching from it at Dumfries and running to Castle Douglas, the G&SWR actively...
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  • Leuchars, and Perth. The original prospectus for the line had included a branch line from Leuchars to St Andrews, but this was dropped from the scheme as...
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    operate under the title Ayrshire Coast Line (which also incorporates the Largs branch), and passenger train services on the line from Kilmarnock to Carlisle...
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    Glasgow in Scotland, was developed by a company known as The Lesmahagow Branches (later known as The Lesmahagow Guarantee Company). It was not an independent...
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    Inveresk; a short mineral branch to Tranent, opened in 1849; the North Berwick branch from Drem, opened in 1850; the Dunse branch line, opened in 1849; Dunse...
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  • agreement.[page needed] The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opened its Shieldhill branch on 28 August 1847. This ran from the Slamannan Railway at Causewayend, heading...
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    2009 the following lines still used this gauge: The Keiō Line and its branches (excluding the Inokashira Line). The reason to use 1372 mm in 1915 was...
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    unused but were later refurbished for use as commercial properties and the branch lines into the bay platform at the station were lifted. In the early 2000s...
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    River Spey, and then to Elgin and along the coast via Nairn to Inverness. Branch lines to Banff, Portsoy, Garmouth and Burghead would total 30+1⁄2 miles...
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  • and Glasgow Railway near Castlecary. The line opened in 1848 including a branch to South Alloa. The line immediately became part of the forming trunk railway...
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  • The Darvel Branch was an extension of the former Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway in Scotland built by the Glasgow and South Western Railway...
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    Central and Largs with extra services to Ardrossan Harbour, connecting with the ferry. 2 trains per hour to Glasgow Central 1 train per hour to Largs (with...
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  • Tayport ferry terminal has closed, and some sections of the Dunfermline branch have closed. The natural barrier of the Firth of Forth had for centuries...
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    The North Berwick Branch is a short railway branch line built by the North British Railway to connect North Berwick, in East Lothian, Scotland to the East...
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  • developed as outer suburban railways, and were electrified in the 1960s. Those branches, as they became, continue in intensive passenger use at the present day...
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    The Garve and Ullapool Railway was one of several branch railway-lines proposed for the North-West Highlands of Scotland, in the 1880s and 1890s. The project...
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    there remained a large area on the map of Scotland not served by any, and branch lines from existing trunk lines began to be considered. In 1870 the first...
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  • of the Fraserburgh branch, and in fact the company had considered abandoning it. However it decided to alter the route, branching from the Peterhead line...
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    part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Although its shorter branches have closed, former Highland Railway lines remain open from Inverness to...
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