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Place
  
Station code
  
Owned by
  
Owner
  
IBM

Local authority
  
Inverclyde

Grid reference
  
NS234743

Managed by
  
Abellio ScotRail

2011/12
  
0.128 million

Number of platforms
  
1

IBM railway station

Address
  
Greenock PA16 0AH, United Kingdom

Pte
  
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

Similar
  
Inverkip railway station, Bogston railway station, Branchton railway station, Fort Matilda railway st, Wemyss Bay railway station

Ibm railway station top 5 facts


IBM railway station (formerly known as IBM Halt) is a railway station on the Inverclyde Line, 25½ miles (41 km) west of Glasgow Central.

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Clinging to the south slope of Spango Valley on the Glasgow-Wemyss Bay line, IBM Halt opened on 9 May 1978 by British Rail to serve what was at that time a thriving computer manufacturing plant employing over 4,000 people. Originally, the stop was unadvertised and only peak time services stopped there, but now, despite the decline in the fortunes and working population of the plant, the facility is publicly advertised and all but one service make the stop.

As the name suggests, it is located within the confines of a large facility formerly owned entirely by IBM, a former major employer for the town of Greenock.

Parts of the site were sold off to companies such as Sanmina-SCI and Lenovo, which have now closed. By June 2009 half of the buildings had been demolished and the site was rebranded as Valley Park, although locals still refer to the complex by its old name. Accordingly, there are no plans to change the station name.

Due to its location away from major housing areas and other transport links, the station is used primarily by people employed in Valley Park, but access to the station and its services by the general public is possible.

Services

There is a daily hourly service on the Inverclyde Line between Glasgow Central and Wemyss Bay.

References

IBM railway station Wikipedia


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