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Railway station in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland

Greenock West railway station is a station in Greenock, Scotland, located on the Inverclyde Line which runs from Gourock to Glasgow Central. The route is currently operated by ScotRail under the auspices of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. Each service to and from Glasgow on the Inverclyde Line stops at this station.

Starting with in 1812, Glasgow soon had Clyde steamer services on the River and Firth of Clyde. From 1841 the Caledonian Railway's Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock line offered quicker travel to its Greenock Cathcart Street terminus, about 5 minutes walk from Steamboat Quay (Custom House Quay) by a narrow squalid lane. The 1865 branch line to Wemyss Bay had mixed fortunes, from then the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) competed with the Caledonian for parliamentary approvals. In 1869 G&SWR services began to Albert Harbour railway station (at Princes Pier), taking away steamer trade. Rival proposals were made for a line to Gourock, in June 1869 the Caledonian bought the existing Gourock harbour. It later realigned its route to run beside the cemetery to the south of Greenock Royal Infirmary, to a station at the junction between Inverkip Street and Newton Street.

The West Burn flows down adjacent to Inverkip Road, and originally powered water mills downstream from the station site, where a sugar refinery originated in 1826, and was expanded by John Walker and Co from 1848. The river was culverted under the G&SWR railway and Inverkip Street, then taken above the West Station platforms and railway line in an open metal trough forming an aqueduct leading to a reservoir or mill pond just to the north of the station. The railway cutting includes an area to the northeast of the station. A branch line diverged from the westbound track after the Duncan Street bridge and, passing to the north of columns supporting the Bruce Street bridge, curved round into a goods yard with sidings extending to West Shaw Street. A track continued into Walker's refinery. Floods built up at the West Station. Water pressure shifted the retaining wall at Platform 2 just east of the Inverkip Street bridge, damaging the westbound line and causing collapse of the gable of an adjacent bookshop with flats on upper floors. Near the foot of Inverkip Road, floodwater found an outlet into the G&SWR tunnel, and rushed down to their sidings above Brougham Street, damaging houses near Princes Pier. Both railways sued the Corporation of Greenock, in cases which set precedent for law on culverts, and on appeal the House of Lords decided the cases in favour of the railways.

Walker's sugar refinery closed in 1979. The Inverkip Street bridge was of steel girder construction, as the Bruce Street bridge still is, and in a similar way was extended with cast iron column supports to go over the railway sidings. It needed renewal, and in a major project after 2000 it was replaced by a modern concrete bridge and retaining wall which blocks off access to the goods yard area. The site was redeveloped as a Homebase retail outlet and car park. After this business closed, it was replaced in 2020 by The Range retailer, incorporating an Iceland food department. The mill pond was still intact in the late 1980s, but it became overgrown and its weir has been breached, letting the river flow through. The adjacent church was demolished in 2021.

It is a staffed station with two platforms; the eastbound platform to Glasgow is reached via a footbridge over the tracks. The tracks are located below street level, with a tunnel to the west leading to Fort Matilda, and to the east a cutting then a tunnel takes the line to Greenock Central. The main A78 road bridge which takes Inverkip Street over the station platforms had to be rebuilt and was closed to traffic for several years with a diversion in operation. A busy commuter station, services at Greenock West run from around 6 am until approximately 11:30 pm; a more reduced, limited service operates on Sundays, with only one train per hour. It is near to the main Finnart Campus of the James Watt College stands nearby to the west of the station, so a large number of students use Greenock West.