Kirkconnel railway station

Kirkconnel
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General information
Location	Dumfries and Galloway
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KRK
History
Original company	Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Key dates
28 October 1850	Opened

Kirkconnel railway station is a railway station in the town of Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The station is unstaffed and is managed by Abellio 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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