page_title: Largs railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Largs railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Largs railway station - train leaving platform 1.
context_page_description: Largs railway station is a railway station in the town of Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is owned by Network Rail. It is on the Ayrshire Coast Line, 43 miles south west of Glasgow Central.
context_section_description: 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 25 kV A.C overhead system was used, with the signalling system supervised from Paisley signalling centre.
caption: Largs station in the 1960s
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