Kirkconnel railway station

Kirkconnel
Up (southbound) platform
Location
Place	Kirkconnel
Local authority	Dumfries and Galloway
Coordinates	55.388°N 3.998°W / 55.388; -3.998
Operations
Station code	KRK
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	15,354
2005/06 *	16,524
2006/07 *	15,373
2007/08 *	16,125
2008/09 *	17,744
2009/10 *	17,494
History
Original company	Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
28 October 1850	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kirkconnel from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Kirkconnel railway station is a railway station in the town of Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The station is unstaffed, is managed by First ScotRail.

History

Kirkconnel is situated on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway main line between Kilmarnock and Carlisle. It was one of the few stations on the route to avoid the Beeching Axe in the mid-1960s and was the only intermediate station between Kilmarnock and Dumfries for many years.

The railway poet

A plaque at the station commemorates Alexander Anderson, the poet from Kirkconnel, who rose from being a railway worker to become Chief Librarian at Edinburgh University. He was a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South-western railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman.

Services

There is a two-hourly service in each direction (with one or two extras), southbound to Dumfries and Carlisle and northbound to Kilmarnock and Glasgow. There are also three trains per day to Newcastle.

There is a limited service (two trains each way to Carlisle and Glasgow) on Sundays.

Gallery

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  A freight train passing through Kirkconnel

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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. 

External links

• Media related to Kirkconnel railway station at Wikimedia Commons

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Sanquhar		First ScotRail  Glasgow South Western Line		New Cumnock