Ravenscraig railway station

Ravenscraig
The site of Ravenscraig station in 2016.
General information
Location	Near Greenock, Inverclyde Scotland
Coordinates	55°56′10″N 4°48′47″W / 55.936°N 4.813°W / 55.936; -4.813
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
15 May 1865	Opened
1 January 1917	Closed
1 February 1919	Reopened
1 February 1944	Closed

Ravenscraig railway station was a railway station located south west of the town of Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, originally as part of the Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway and later owned by the Caledonian Railway.

The Greenock suburbs now border the site of the station, but When the station opened in 1865, the area was entirely farmland, the nearest suburb being 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away at Cornhaddock.^[1] Even when the station closed in 1944, it was still some distance from the nearest suburb, which was 1.0 mile (1.6 km) away at Gateside.^[2]

Smithston Poorhouse and Asylum opened in 1879, this was located around 0.7 miles (1.1 km) from the station as the crow flies. It was renamed Ravenscraig Hospital when it came under NHS control in 1948.^[3] This was four years after the station closed, therefore the name of the station and that of the hospital are not directly connected.