Kennishead railway station

Kennishead National Rail
Location
Place Kennishead
Local authority Glasgow
Coordinates 55°48′48″N 4°19′29″W / 55.8134°N 4.3247°W / 55.8134; -4.3247Coordinates: 55°48′48″N 4°19′29″W / 55.8134°N 4.3247°W / 55.8134; -4.3247
Grid reference NS543602
Operations
Station code KNS
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03  19,168
2004/05 Increase 20,917
2005/06 Increase 30,858
2006/07 Increase 37,747
2007/08 Decrease 35,826
2008/09 Increase 40,902
2009/10 Increase 48,688
2010/11 Increase 60,738
2011/12 Increase 67,014
2012/13 Increase 67,688
2013/14 Decrease 60,250
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE SPT
History
Original company Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
27 September 1848[1] Opened as Crofthead
1 August 1850[1] Renamed Kennishead (Thornliebank)
1 May 1852[2] Renamed Kinnishead and Speirsbridge
1 January 1855[3] Renamed Kennishead and Speirsbridge
1 May 1859[2] Renamed Kennishead
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kennishead from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Kennishead railway station is a railway station in Kennishead, a district of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line.

Services

The station has a half-hourly service in each direction on weekdays (hourly in the evenings which extends to Kilmarnock, one of which Monday to Friday only extends to Dumfries), to Glasgow and Barrhead. Connections for stations to Kilmarnock and the south are available at Barrhead.[4]

There is no Sunday service.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Priesthill & Darnley   Abellio ScotRail
Glasgow South Western Line
Mondays-Saturdays only
  Pollokshaws West
Historical railways
Nitshill   Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways
Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
  Pollokshaws West

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Butt 1995, p. 71.
  2. 1 2 Butt 1995, p. 130.
  3. Butt 1995, p. 135.
  4. Table 222 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources


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