Kennishead railway station

Kennishead
Location
Place	Kennishead
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55.813°N 4.325°W / 55.813; -4.325
Operations
Station code	KNS
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	19,168
2004/05 *	20,917
2005/06 *	30,858
2006/07 *	37,747
2007/08 *	35,826
2008/09 *	45,478
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
27 September 1848	Opened as Crofthead
1 August 1850	Renamed Kennishead (Thornliebank)
1 May 1852	Renamed Kinnishead and Speirsbridge
1 January 1855	Renamed Kennishead and Speirsbridge
1 May 1859	Renamed Kennishead
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kennishead from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Kennishead railway station is a railway station in Kennishead, a district of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by First 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), to Glasgow and Barrhead. Connections for stations to Kilmarnock and the south are available at Barrhead.

There is no Sunday service.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Priesthill & Darnley		First 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

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.