Kingsknowe railway station

Kingsknowe
Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc an Rìgh
Location
Place	Kingsknowe
Local authority	Edinburgh
Coordinates	55°55′08″N 3°15′51″W / 55.9190°N 3.2642°WCoordinates: 55°55′08″N 3°15′51″W / 55.9190°N 3.2642°W
Grid reference	NT210702
Operations
Station code	KGE
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	18,409
2005/06	18,524
2006/07	19,942
2007/08	19,307
2008/09	20,316
2009/10	19,710
2010/11	15,978
History
Original company	Caledonian Railway
15 February 1848[1]	Opened as King's Knowe or Slateford
January 1853	Renamed
1 January 1917	Closed
1 February 1919	Reopened
6 July 1964	Closed
1 February 1971	Reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kingsknowe from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Kingsknowe railway station is a railway station serving Kingsknowe in the Scottish city of Edinburgh. It is located on the Shotts Line from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. The station has two platforms, connected by a level crossing, and CCTV. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.

The passenger traction calling at this station is the Class 156 "Super Sprinter" and also the Class 158. ScotRail class 380 also call at this station. As this station is east of the junction of the West Coast Main Line to Carstairs, a variety of CrossCountry Class 220 "Voyager", Virgin Trains Class 221 "Super Voyager", Class 390 "Pendolino" and InterCity 225 can also be seen.

History

Kingsknowe station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 15 February 1848. It was closed to passenger services by British Railways on 6 July 1964 and re-opened on 1 February 1971.^[2]

Services

It is currently served, Mondays to Saturdays, by one ScotRail service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley.^[3] Two trains a day from Edinburgh terminate at Motherwell (one also starts back from there in the early morning) and there is one through train in each direction between Glasgow and North Berwick that calls (peak periods only - runs via Carstairs, with the evening train extended to Ayr).

There is a two-hourly Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and through to Glasgow since the December 2012 timetable change - prior to this, trains had only run as far as West Calder.

References

1. Butt 1995, p. 134.
2. Shaw, Donald (1989). The Balerno Branch and the caley in Edinburgh. Oakwood Library. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-85361-366-4.
3. Table 224 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.

External links

• Media related to Kingsknowe railway station at Wikimedia Commons

• Train times and station information for Kingsknowe railway station from National Rail