Kennishead railway station

Kennishead
Location
Place	Kennishead
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55°48′48″N 4°19′29″W / 55.8134°N 4.3247°WCoordinates: 55°48′48″N 4°19′29″W / 55.8134°N 4.3247°W
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	20,917
2005/06	30,858
2006/07	37,747
2007/08	35,826
2008/09	40,902
2009/10	48,688
2010/11	60,738
2011/12	67,014
2012/13	67,688
2013/14	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.

References

Notes

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

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.