Scotrail services suspended after devastating Troon fire
The historic station building was destroyed on Saturday
Last updated 18th Jul 2021
Scotrail is not expecting to operate any trains to Ayr today or on Monday because of the fire which destroyed much of the historic Troon station on Saturday.
It took several hours to put out the blaze which began in the ticket office of the building on platform one around 12.40pm on Saturday, with six appliances from Scottish Fire and Rescue in attendance.
There's been no confirmation of what started the blaze but Clyde 1 News understands there's no evidence of criminality.
Services on the line are only running as far as Kilwinning and it's likely there will be two services an hour between Glasgow and the Ayrshire town.
Glasgow - Largs / Ardrossan services are running as normal.
Troon station is almost 130 years old
Network Rail cut the power to overhead lines to allow firefighters to tackle the blaze, which has also damaged the power lines as well as devasting the structure which was designed by James Miller for the Glasgow and South Western Railway in 1892.
The cause of the fire is currently unknown.
The train operator organised replacement bus services from Ayr, Largs, Kilmarnock and Troon stations to transport people who had already completed the outward leg of their journey before the fire broke out, back to Kilwinning station.
From there they were able to transfer to a shuttle train service to Glasgow Central. Several hundred passengers were affected.
ScotRail is also advising customers to closely monitor its Twitter feed for the most up to date information on the running of services over the next few days.