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Largs (Scottish Gaelic: An Leargaidh Ghallda) is a town on the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland, about 33 mi (53 km) from Glasgow.
1 train per hour to Largs (with peak hour extras) 1 train per hour to Ardrossan Harbour. Some services are timed to coincide with the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry service to Brodick on the Isle of Arran. On Sundays, there are usually hourly services towards Glasgow Central and Largs, with five services to Ardrossan Harbour connecting with the ...
It was also the location of many famous yacht yards. Clyde-built wooden yachts are still known for quality and style today. The "lower Clyde" shipyards of Greenock and Port Glasgow, most notably Scott Lithgow, played an important historical role in shipbuilding. The PS Comet was the first successful steamboat in Europe.
Primarily during the summer she is based on the Clyde, operating excursions from Glasgow, Greenock, Largs or Ayr. Typically her Clyde timetable ends at the end of August and Waverley spends 6 weeks between September and October cruising the Bristol Channel, the Solent and the Thames before returning to the Clyde for two sailings in October. [21]
The company secured authorisation purchase Largs Harbour, but the new railway was never built. Competition remained fierce, but by 1910 it became possible to agree a traffic sharing arrangement; the Arran ferry service would be operated by one company at a time, in alternate years; this was agreed in March 1910 between the G&SWR and the ...
Largs Bay may mean: Largs, Scotland, and its associated bay, Largs Bay; Largs Bay, South Australia, a suburb, beach and jetty; RFA Largs Bay, a ship
The full electrified service, including trains to Largs and Ardrossan Harbour, commenced on 19 January 1987. [1] These were supplemented by occasional use of Class 303 and Class 311 EMUs, then in use on the Inverclyde Line .