I found this wondrous piece of colour film from another world, another time, on the book-of-face.....
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/4650
From 15:20 it's colour footage of Prestwick in 1964 with the last days of Orangefield and the opening of the new terminal building. Stunning to see the original layout with SAS, Air Canada and Scottish Express all in situ, strange BOAC never got a look in until a B707 at the end. It got me thinking, with the British state having spent a
massive amount of money on the new terminal (at the same time Glasgow City Council was building out Abbotsinch) was there ever a published rationale for NOT building a railway halt? The main Glasgow to Ayr line runs outside the then new terminal and no station was ever built until private ownership in 1994, some three decades later. Was the government really so poor at joined up thinking or was it local politics? It was a no brainer my dad used to complain about at every opportunity, but what on earth was the actual reason for dropping the ball?