Glengarnock railway station
Glengarnock railway station is a railway station in the village of Glengarnock, North Ayrshire, Scotland, serving the towns of Beith and Kilbirnie. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.
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 Glengarnock station in 2015. | |
| General information | |
| Location | Glengarnock, North Ayrshire Scotland |
| Coordinates | 55.7389°N 4.6752°W |
| Grid reference | NS321527 |
| Managed by | ScotRail |
| Transit authority | SPT |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | GLG |
| History | |
| Original company | Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Glasgow and South Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | LMS |
| Key dates | |
| 21 July 1840 | Opened as Glengarnock and Kilbirnie[2] |
| 1 June 1905 | Renamed Glengarnock[2] |
| Passengers | |
| 2017/18 |  0.425 million |
| 2018/19 |  0.389 million |
| 2019/20 | 0.382 million |
| 2020/21 | 48,242 |
| 2021/22 | 0.183 million |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
History
The station was opened on 21 July 1840 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (later part of the Glasgow and South Western Railway) and was named Glengarnock and Kilbirnie.[2] The station is marked on an 1897 Ordnance Survey maps as Kilbirnie Station.[3] It was renamed Glengarnock on 1 June 1905 to coincide with the opening of the dedicated Kilbirnie railway station on the Dalry and North Johnstone Line.[2][4] Although this Kilbirnie station closed in 1966,[4] the original station has continued to use only Glengarnock as its name.
Services
There are three trains per hour between Glengarnock and Glasgow in both directions for most of the day, reduced to a half-hourly service in the evenings. Trains from Glasgow continue to one of Ayr, Largs or Ardrossan Harbour There is an hourly Sunday service to Glasgow and Largs.[5]
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dalry | ScotRail Ayrshire Coast Line |
Lochwinnoch | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Dalry Line and station open |
Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway |
Beith North Line open; station closed | ||
References
Notes
- Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- Butt, p. 104
- "Ayrshire VIII.SW, Surveyed: 1895, Published: 1897". National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey. 1897.
- Butt, p. 131
- Table 221 National Rail timetable, May 2016
Sources
- Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
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