Kennishead railway station explained

Kennishead
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Kennishead, Glasgow
Country:Scotland
Coordinates:55.8134°N -4.3247°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:ScotRail
Platforms:2
Code:KNS
Transit Authority:SPT
Original:Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Years:27 September 1848
Events:Opened as Crofthead
Years1:1 August 1850
Events1:Renamed Kennishead (Thornliebank)
Years2:1 May 1852
Events2:Renamed Kinnishead and Speirsbridge
Years3:1 January 1855
Events3:Renamed Kennishead and Speirsbridge
Years4:1 May 1859
Events4:Renamed Kennishead
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Kennishead railway station is a railway station in Kennishead, a district of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line, NaNmiles 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.[1]

Three bike racks can also be located on Platform 2, which are uncovered.

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 /Kilmarnock, alternating every 30 minutes. Connections for stations to and the south are available at Barrhead when not on a through train.

Kilmarnock services run through this station non-stop every hour in each direction during the day, only stopping at Barrhead and Glasgow Central.

As of 19 February 2023, on Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction between Glasgow Central and Kilmarnock, calling all stations, with one of these services extending to Carlisle.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/KNS/details.html Kennishead station facilities