Fairlie railway station
Fairlie railway station serves the village of Fairlie, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Fairlie, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Fairlie Railway Station”, “Fairlie Station”, and “FRL”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fairlie Castle and Kelburn Castle.
Fairlie Castle
Castle
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fairlie Castle is a restored oblong tower castle located on a natural rounded knoll situated above a precipitous section of the Fairlie Glen near the town of Fairlie in the old Barony of Fairlie, Parish of Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland. Fairlie Castle is situated 1,200 feet northeast of Fairlie railway station.
Kelburn Castle
Photo: wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kelburn Castle is a large house near Fairlie, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is the seat of the Earl of Glasgow. Originally built in the thirteenth century it was remodelled in the sixteenth century. Kelburn Castle is situated 1¼ miles north of Fairlie railway station.
Hunterston Castle
Hunterston Castle, West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, Scotland is the historic home of the lairds of Hunterston and Chiefs of Clan Hunter. The keep dates from the late 12th, or early 13th centuries, while the attached manor house is of the 18th century. Hunterston Castle is situated 2 miles southwest of Fairlie railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Millport and Largs.
Millport
Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Great Cumbrae is an island in the Firth of Clyde off the coast of Ayrshire, with Millport as its only settlement, and a population of 1376 in 2011. The island is about 3 miles long by 1½ miles wide, roughly tooth-shaped, with a broad bay indenting its south coast.
Largs
Largs is a seaside resort on the Clyde coast of Ayrshire, with a population of 10,900 in 2022. It’s where Viking power in Scotland was broken, at the Battle of Largs in 1263, and the Vikingar Exhibition is the town’s main attraction.
West Kilbride
West Kilbride is a town in Ayrshire on the Clyde coast, with a population of 4860 in 2022. Named for St Brigit of Kildare, it was traditionally a weaving, potato-growing and sheep-farming town.
Fairlie railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.75189° or 55° 45′ 7″ northLongitude
-4.85319° or 4° 51′ 12″ westElevation
49 feet (15 metres)Operator
ScotRailNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“FRL”Open location code
9C7QQ42W+QPOpenStreetMap ID
node 30616252OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Fairlie railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Fairlie”
- Dutch: “Station Fairlie”
- French: “Fairlie”
- French: “gare de Fairlie”
- Urdu: “فیئرلی ریلوے اسٹیشن”
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