Kennishead railway station

Coordinates: 55°48′48″N 4°19′29″W / 55.8134°N 4.3247°W / 55.8134; -4.3247
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Kennishead
General information
LocationGlasgow
Coordinates55°48′48″N 4°19′29″W / 55.8134°N 4.3247°W / 55.8134; -4.3247
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeKNS
History
Original companyGlasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Key dates
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

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, 4+14 miles (6.8 km) south of Glasgow Central.

Facilities

The station is unmanned and has only basic amenities (waiting shelters, bench seating and a customer help point on each platform). Train running information is also offered via digital CIS displays, timetable posters and automated announcements. No level access is available to either platform - both entrances have steep ramps from the street and the footbridge linking them has steps.[4]

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.[5]

From 21 May 2017 the station has an hourly Sunday service in each direction to Glasgow Central and Kilmarnock.[6]

Preceding station National Rail 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. ^ a b Butt 1995, p. 71.
  2. ^ a b Butt 1995, p. 130.
  3. ^ Butt 1995, p. 135.
  4. ^ Kennishead station facilities National Rail Enquiries
  5. ^ Table 222 National Rail timetable, May 2017
  6. ^ "Train times" (PDF). Retrieved 16 May 2017.

Sources