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Johnstone North railway station

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Place
  
Johnstone

Grid reference
  
NS426636

7 March 1955
  
Closed

Area
  
Renfrewshire

1 June 1905
  
Opened

Platforms in use
  
2

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Pre-grouping
  
Glasgow and South Western Railway

Similar
  
Paisley East railway st, Johnstone railway station, Milliken Park railway st, Coronation Chair

Johnstone North railway station was a railway station serving the town of Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland as part of the Dalry and North Johnstone Line on the Glasgow and South Western Railway.

History

The station opened on 1 June 1905. An earlier terminus station, also called Johnstone North, on the Paisley Canal Line had operated nearby in 1885, but the opening of the Kilbarchan Loop made it redundant and so this station was built as a replacement. The station closed to passengers on 7 March 1955.

To the east of the station was Cart Junction with the Bridge of Weir Railway, and onwards to the triangular junction with the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway.

The overbridge to the west of the station was removed as part of the construction associated with the Johnstone and Kilbarchan bypass (A737 road) in the late 1990s. In 2007 the site was flattened to make way for a new Morrisons Superstore.

References

Johnstone North railway station Wikipedia