Glengarnock railway station

Railway station in North Ayrshire, Scotland

55°44′20″N 4°40′31″W / 55.7389°N 4.6752°W / 55.7389; -4.6752Grid referenceNS321527Managed byScotRailTransit authoritySPTPlatforms2Other informationStation codeGLGHistoryOriginal companyGlasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr RailwayPre-groupingGlasgow and South Western RailwayPost-groupingLMSKey dates21 July 1840Opened as Glengarnock and Kilbirnie^[2]1 June 1905Renamed Glengarnock^[2]Passengers2018/19

0.389 million2019/20

0.382 million2020/21

48,2422021/22

0.183 million2022/23

0.236 million

Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.

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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Butt, p. 104
^ "Ayrshire VIII.SW, Surveyed: 1895, Published: 1897". National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey. 1897.
^ ^a ^b 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.