Paisley Gilmour Street Train Station

Paisley Gilmour Street railway station is the largest of the four stations serving the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland (Gilmour Street, St. James, Paisley Canal and Hawkhead), and acts as the town's principal railway station. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line, west of. The station is protected as a category B listed building. HistoryThe station was opened on 14 July 1840 on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (GPK& AR). The station was used jointly by the GPK& AR and the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway (GP& GR). However, the GP& GR did not run services until March 1841 due to construction difficulties at Bishopton. It was originally built with only two through platforms, with the GPK& R and the GP& GR lines separating to the west of the station. The station was later expanded to four platforms, two for the GPK& R and two for the GP& GR, with the lines separating to the east of the station. The section between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Paisley Gilmour Street station was a joint line: the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway. Twentieth centuryThe station was electrified as part of the 1967 Inverclyde Line. Ayrshire Coast Line platforms (then numbered 1 and 2) were wired, however the wires finished a short distance west of the station. These were extended as part of the Ayrshire Line electrification by British Rail in 1986. This 1986 work coincided with the renumbering of the platforms with the Glasgow bound platforms numbered 1 (Inverclyde) and 3 (Ayrshire), and the outbound platforms numbers 2 (Inverclyde) and 4 (Ayrshire).

Paisley Gilmour Street railway station is the largest of the four stations serving the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland (Gilmour Street, St. James, Paisley Canal and Hawkhead), and acts as the town's principal railway station. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line, west of. The station is protected as a category B listed building. HistoryThe station was opened on 14 July 1840 on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (GPK& AR). The station was used jointly by the GPK& AR and the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway (GP& GR). However, the GP& GR did not run services until March 1841 due to construction difficulties at Bishopton. It was originally built with only two through platforms, with the GPK& R and the GP& GR lines separating to the west of the station. The station was later expanded to four platforms, two for the GPK& R and two for the GP& GR, with the lines separating to the east of the station. The section between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Paisley Gilmour Street station was a joint line: the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway. Twentieth centuryThe station was electrified as part of the 1967 Inverclyde Line. Ayrshire Coast Line platforms (then numbered 1 and 2) were wired, however the wires finished a short distance west of the station. These were extended as part of the Ayrshire Line electrification by British Rail in 1986. This 1986 work coincided with the renumbering of the platforms with the Glasgow bound platforms numbered 1 (Inverclyde) and 3 (Ayrshire), and the outbound platforms numbers 2 (Inverclyde) and 4 (Ayrshire).