Using a combination of common sense, an Ordnance Survey map and Google Earth, Andy and me managed to find IBM station! But, as you can see from this notice, we would not have been able to actually use it! For a single platform station usage numbers were once very impressive at 0.123 million but that has declined to a number very close to zero for this year! It was constructed to serve the employees of the adjacent IBM factory that finally closed in 2016. As it performs no other purpose, being fairly high up on the side of Spango Valley about two miles south west of Greenock, its future is in question. However, there could be a future if the IBM site is transformed into a mixture of housing, retail and industrial use as is a proposal at the moment.
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