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L1050722 - Ayr Station Hotel
L1050722 - Ayr Station Hotel

Back in August 2003 I spent a couple of nights at the historic former railway hotel at Ayr Station. It is a classic Railway Hotel and had a very antique lift with manual gates. A recorded message played continually in the lift reminding users to close the gates other wise the lift could not be summoned to other floors!

Unfortunately for some reason these are the only photographs which I took and I forgot about the exterior!

I have posted them to enable me to link back to a thread I have commented on on the Derelict Places web site in response to an urban explorer's recent visit which is worth reading:
www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/leisure-sites/37844-station...

Ayr Station Hotel forms part of Ayr Station and was originally opened by the Glasgow and South Western Railway in June 1866, passing to the ownership of the London Midland and Scottish Railway at grouping and to British Transport Hotels on railway nationalisation.

Future US President Wood Woodrow Wilson stayed in there on a visit to the UK in 1899.

It was sold by British Transport Hotels in 1951 and has passed through several owners since then. The historic listed building is now owned by a Malaysian businessman, though the hotel closed in 2013 it has not been maintained and has been declared a dangerous building and placed on the buildings at risk register. The local authority has taken steps to secure the building and protect the station from falling debris.

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Taken on: August 13, 2003
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