Largs railway station
Largs 
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| Scottish Gaelic: An Leargaidh | |
BR style enamel sign in 1984
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| Location | |
| Place | Largs |
| Local authority | North Ayrshire |
| Coordinates | 55°47′34″N 4°52′02″W / 55.7928°N 4.8673°WCoordinates: 55°47′34″N 4°52′02″W / 55.7928°N 4.8673°W |
| Grid reference | NS202592 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | LAR |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.472 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.486 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.449 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.453 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.430 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | SPT |
| History | |
| Original company | G&SWR Largs Branch |
| Post-grouping | LMS |
| 1 June 1885 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Largs from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Largs railway station is a railway station in the town of Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line, 43 miles (69 km) south west of Glasgow Central.
The station was originally opened on 1 June 1885 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway, as the terminus of the extension of the former Ardrossan Railway to Largs.
The station originally had four platforms with additional stabling lines, a glazed canopy and a footbridge spanning the platforms.
By the time the electrification project commenced only three platforms and the centre stabling line were in operation. A fire in 1985 destroyed the station signal box and shortly afterwards work was undertaken to remodel & rationalise the track layout and modernise the signalling ahead of the planned electrification (as part of the wider Ayrshire Coast scheme). Once this was completed by British Rail in 1987, only two platforms remained in use with the line southwards having been reduced to single track. The standard 25kV A.C overhead system was used, with the signalling system supervised from Paisley signalling centre.
On 11 July 1995 an early morning Class 318 train from Glasgow Central failed to stop. It crashed through the buffers and the back of the ticket office, severely damaging parts of the station building, and demolished two shops before coming to a stop next to the taxi rank on Main Street. An eye-witness described the noise with the station shaking as the train "was ploughing through it like a set of dominoes", then "the whole corner of the building disintegrating". Although the driver, the guard and three others suffered injuries, there was considerable relief that no-one was killed.
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