Branchton railway station

Branchton
265px View looking towards Greenock from footbridge over Inverkip Road
Location
Place	Branchton
Local authority	Inverclyde
Coordinates
Grid reference	NS250754
Operations
Station code	BCN
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	62,198
2005/06	72,152
2006/07	69,969
2007/08	76,781
2008/09	94,320
2009/10	93,632
2010/11	97,140
2011/12	98,692
2012/13	0.108 million
2013/14	0.114 million
History
Original company	BR Scottish Region
5 June 1967	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 Branchton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Branchton railway station is a railway station in Scotland opened in 1967 under British Rail located in the south-west of the town of Greenock, beside the area called Branchton. The station is on the Inverclyde Line, 24¾ miles (40 km) west of Glasgow Central. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail.

Services

There is an hourly service daily eastbound to Glasgow Central and westbound to Wemyss Bay.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
IBM		Abellio ScotRail Inverclyde Line		Drumfrochar

Gallery

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  The station in 1974

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  The station building had been un-manned 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.

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  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.

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  Eastbound Class 334 train arriving at the station