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Fears for Ayr Station Hotel after demolition begins

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CONSERVATION groups and local politicians have expressed their shock at the sudden demolition of a large part of the fire-ravaged Glasgow & South Western Railway Ayr Station Hotel.

Bulldozers moved in without prior notice on December 2/3. South Ayrshire Council ordered demolition contractors to remove the south gable and western gable walls as a prelude, it is believed, to the removal of the entire structure of the Grade B-listed hotel, once the pride of the

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