Paisley Canal railway station

Paisley Canal
Location
Place	Paisley
Local authority	Renfrewshire
Coordinates	55°50′25″N 4°25′23″W / 55.8403°N 4.4230°W / 55.8403; -4.4230Coordinates: 55°50′25″N 4°25′23″W / 55.8403°N 4.4230°W / 55.8403; -4.4230
Operations
Station code	PCN
Managed by	First ScotRail
Platforms in use	1
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	158,340
2005/06 *	176,196
2006/07 *	187,553
2007/08 *	189,918
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
1 July 1885[1]	Opened
10 January 1983[1]	Closed
28 July 1990[1]	Re-opened east of original site
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Paisley Canal from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Paisley Canal railway station is a railway station in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and lies on the Paisley Canal Line.

History

The original station was opened on 1 July 1885 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway,^[1] situated on a loop line to Elderslie Junction due to congestion on the line through Paisley Gilmour Street. Following closure of the Dalry and North Johnstone Line and the Greenock Princess Pier Line in 1966, local services through Paisley Canal continued through to Kilmacolm, with the occasional boat train to Ardrossan Harbour. In the latter years the Kilmacolm service finished at 7pm. At some point the station buildings were taken out of use and an over-line booking office was built at the Causeyside Street end of the platforms.

The station closed to passengers on 10 January 1983,^[1] however seven years later a new train service was commenced on 28 July 1990.^[1] As the original station site had been sold and the platforms filled in, a new platform to the east of the Causeyside Street overbridge was constructed within the railway cutting.

Services

Monday to Saturdays there is a half-hourly service eastbound to Glasgow Central.

There is no Sunday service apart from during the run up to the festive period in December.

References

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Butt (1995), page 180

Sources

• Butt, R.V.J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.