Branchton railway station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

opened in 1967 under

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

located in the south-west of the town of

Greenock Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh of barony, burgh within the Counties of Scotland, historic ...

, beside the area called Branchton. The station is on the

Inverclyde Line The Inverclyde Line is a railway line running from Glasgow Central station through Paisley (Gilmour Street) and a series of stations to the south of the River Clyde and the Firth of Clyde, terminating at Gourock and Wemyss Bay, where it connect ...

, 24¾ miles (40 km) west of . The station is managed by

ScotRail ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail ( gd, Rèile na h-Alba), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government. It has been operating the ScotRail franchise a ...

Services

There is an hourly service daily (including Sundays) eastbound to & Glasgow Central and westbound to on the

Gallery

File:Branchton railway station 1890157 c87b107d.jpg, The station in 1974 File:Branchton(3).jpg, The station building had been unstaffed and boarded up for several years. It was boarded up shortly after being completely renovated, The station building was demolished in March 2015. Inverkip Road is to the left; Ravenscraig Court is obscured by the trees. File:Branchton9.jpg, Looking down the platform, away from the station building. The posts with the yellow bands are for new CCTV equipment for use by train drivers. File:Branchton station 2.jpg, Eastbound train arriving at the station

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* * * Railway stations in Greenock Railway stations opened by British Rail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1967 SPT railway stations Railway stations served by ScotRail {{Scotland-railstation-stub