Old Photograph Railway Station Elderslie Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Elderslie located between Johnstone and Paisley by Glasgow, Scotland. Elderslie train station was a railway station serving the west of Elderslie, originally as part of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway, now the Ayrshire Coast Line. The station opened on 21 July 1840. The station was grand in design, and had four platforms, with the station building extended out over the two central platforms. It had a covered walkway out into Elderslie Main Road. It was a busy railway intersection, as all mainline traffic from Glasgow, Ayr, Stranraer passed through it, as well as the Paisley Canal Line, the Dalry and North Johnstone Line, and the Bridge of Weir Railway. To the east of the station was Canal Junction, with the line dividing between the line to Glasgow via Paisley Gilmour Street and the line via Paisley Canal; whilst to the west a dive under junction provided connections to the North Johnstone line and the line to Greenock Princes Pier, via Kilmacolm. Elderslie station closed on 14 February 1966.



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