Drybridge
Drybridge station in early 2006
General information
Location	Drybridge,Ayrshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°35′38″N4°36′13″W / 55.5940°N 4.6037°W /55.5940; -4.6037
Grid reference	NS359364
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Kilmarnock and Troon Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
6 July 1812	Opened[1]
3 March 1969	Closed[1]
Location

Drybridge railway station was arailway station serving the village ofDrybridge,North Ayrshire,Scotland.

The station was opened on 6 July 1812 by theKilmarnock and Troon Railway.^[1] TheGlasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway took over management of the station on 16 July 1846,^[2] while its successor, theGlasgow and South Western Railway, took over full ownership in 1899.^[3] The station closed on 3 March 1969.^[1]

The station named 'Drybridge' inMoray was renamed 'Letterfourie' by theLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway who had acquired both stations.^[4]

Today Drybridge station has its platforms intact (although overgrown), and the station building is now a private residence. The line is still open as the 'Burns Line', part of theGlasgow South Western Line.

The village of 'Drybridge' is so named after the fact that most bridges up until the era of the railways were built over watercourses and were therefore 'wet bridges'; a name applied to the nearbyLaigh Milton Viaduct.

Visible from the station is the only survivingstanding stone on the mainland inNorth Ayrshire.

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• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995).The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.).Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7.OCLC 60251199.OL 11956311M.
• Stansfield, G. (1999).Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways. Ochiltree: Stenlake Publishing.ISBN 1-8403-3077-5.
• Wilkinson, Brian (1988).The Heilan Line. The Portessie Branch of the Highland Railway. Dornoch : Dornoch Press.ISBN 0-9513358-2-0.

• YouTube video of Drybridge Railway Station
• YouTube of the hidden 1812 'Dry Bridge'

• Former railway stations in North Ayrshire
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1812
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1969
• Former Glasgow and South Western Railway stations
• Beeching closures in Scotland
• Irvine, North Ayrshire

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