Kennishead railway station

Kennishead
General information
Location	Kennishead, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55.8134°N 4.3247°W / 55.8134; -4.3247
Grid reference	NS543602
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KNS
History
Original company	Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Key dates
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
Passengers
2019/20	94,436
2020/21	24,510
2021/22	61,740
2022/23	81,370
2023/24	92,134
Notes 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, 4+1⁄4 miles (6.8 km) 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.^[4]

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 Barrhead/Kilmarnock, alternating every 30 minutes. Connections for stations to Kilmarnock and the south are available at Barrhead when not on a through train.^[5]

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.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Priesthill & Darnley		ScotRail Glasgow South Western Line		Pollokshaws West
	Historical railways
Nitshill		Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway		Pollokshaws West

References

Notes

1. Butt 1995, p. 71.
2. Butt 1995, p. 130.
3. Butt 1995, p. 135.
4. Kennishead station facilities National Rail Enquiries
5. Table 222 National Rail timetable, May 2017

Sources

• 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.