A CYCLE shelter will be installed at Girvan Railway Station if planning permission is granted.

An application to build the shelter on Vicarton Street has been submitted to South Ayrshire Council and is pending consideration. 

If approved the structure would involve a three metre high to accommodate 16 bikes. The shelter will be outside the train station and around the corner from Hamilton Park Football Ground.

According to the South West Community Partnership there is a station car park which offers 18 spaces. There are also cycle stands for up to ten bikes.

Opened in 1893, this station is the second to serve the town and is Scotland’s only art deco station being rebuilt at the end of the 1940’s following a fire in January 1946. 

Owing to the planned route south, the original station, located in Threadneedle Crescent, could not be used and the current station was opened as Girvan (New). 

Because of its unique character, it is graded a class B listed building. It has two platforms, but at one time, had a bay platform on the east, platform 2 side, facing south. This was used for stabling banking engines for the severe climb up the notorious Glendoune Bank. 

A large water tank was sited at the end of platform 2. There was also a timber shelter on platform 2 sited behind the staircase between the platform and the football ground beyond, but this was removed around the early 1980’s.

There was a large toilet block but this was demolished owing to subsidence. The application to develop the station further was received on Monday, January 29. Discussions will take place before a decision is made.