Lissens Goods station or Lissens Sidings station was a railway freight facility located approximately two miles north-east of Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It served the industrial and agricultural requirements for transportation in the vicinity of Auchenmade and the surrounding rural area on behalf of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. Lissens Goods was around seven miles from the Lugton East Junction and the railway workers employed here were supervised by staff from the nearby Auchenmade Station, the nearest passenger and goods station on the up line towards Lugton and Glasgow. Although a remote location today the facility would have had freight transport business in the form of lime for the fields, cattle, horse and sheep movements, milk and cheese delivery, mining and quarrying related items, etc. with other sidings in the vicinity, namely Lylestone. Infrastructure The OS maps of 1896 and 1910 show a fairly significant infrastructure for such a remote location with the double track main line and three sidings running off to a loading dock and what may have been a goods shed. A brick built 16 lever (in 1919) signal box was situated on the main line with six semaphore signal posts, two ground disc signals, a weighing machine, a cistern, a row of three workers cottages and a square outside toilet block and coal shed. Nearby Lylestone siding had a two lever groundframe. History As stated Lissens Goods station lay down the line towards Ardrossan, supervised by staff at Auchenmade Station and closed at the same time as the goods facility at Auchenmade, the passenger station here having finally closed in 1932. Goods trains ran along this line until 30 March 1953. Boat trains to Ardrossan ran along this line until 1939. By 1958 the sidings had been lifted although the signal box was still marked and only a single track was still present on the main line. A feature of WWII was the use of the line for what locals called the night time 'Ghost Trains' that carried injured service personnel to the Glasgow hospitals from where they had been landed at the port of Ardrossan. The goods station at Lissens opened on 3 September 1888 and closed on 17 December 1950. Opened by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, then joining the Caledonian Railway it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Workings details The May 1915 'Appendix' to