A marine environmentalist has called for Fairlie Pier to be resurrected, and said it would be a good thing for a coastal village.

The pier was knocked down in the late 1980s, and used to provide a sailing service to the Isle of Arran, and even had its own railway station link. The station was built before Largs Railway Station in the early 1880s.
However, changing trends resulted in the pier being demolished, and the nearby area was utilised by a sewage treatment plant.
During a recent community council meeting in the Semple Centre, David Nairn of the Clyde Mammal Group, said: "We don't have anywhere to berth in Fairlie, apart from Largs. There should be cheaper berthing for locals, for starters.
"For a coastal community, not to have a pier by the sea seems incredible. I would love to know what the politics were at the time behind Fairlie losing its pier.
"It is very sad state of affairs as there is no cultural link between the community and the sea apart from the company Coastworks, and the Fairlie Coastal Rowing Club. You would think it is the right of a coastal community to have a pier. Maybe you could have a pier in community ownership."
David believes that there marine tourism could bring forward opportunities to the local area, and said: "I am certainly keen to examine the possibility of bringing back a pier to Fairlie. It should be the right of a coastal community to have a pier. We have enough marine engineers and designers in our area, and I believe it is something that we should be looking into."
The Fairlie Pier railway station was opened on 1 July 1882 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway as part of the extension of the former Ardrossan Railway to Largs. As well as shipping services to Millport and Bute, the pier also handled services to and from Brodick during the winter months until the 1960s. The station officially closed on 31 July 1972, however the last train had run on 1 October 1971.
The village enjoyed an unaccustomed place in the limelight in November 1953 when there was a surprise visit to the pier by the Duke of Edinburgh from the royal yacht, Britannia.
To the public his arrival was a complete surprise, but the police had been notified, and several hundreds, mostly women and children, including railway workers and tradesmen, gathered on the pier and the Royal Highness was loudly cheered on his arrival.