Glengarnock High railway station

For the station on the former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, see Glengarnock High railway station.

Glengarnock
Scottish Gaelic: [Gleann Gairneag]
Looking north towards Lochwinnoch
Location
Place	Glengarnock
Local authority	North Ayrshire
Coordinates	55.7389°N 4.6752°W / 55.7389; -4.6752 Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed.
Grid reference	NS321527
Operations
Station code	GLG
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	0.209 million
2004/05	0.231 million
2005/06	0.252 million
2006/07	0.265 million
2007/08	0.260 million
2008/09	0.289 million
2009/10	0.269 million
2010/11	0.285 million
2011/12	0.294 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
21 July 1840	Opened as Glengarnock and Kilbirnie<ref name="butt104"/>
1 June 1905	Renamed Glengarnock<ref name="butt104"/>
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Glengarnock from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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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 Abellio 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.<ref name="butt104">Butt, p. 104</ref> The station 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.<ref name="butt104"/><ref name="butt131">Butt, p. 131</ref> Although this Kilbirnie station closed in 1966,<ref name="butt131"/> the original station has continued to use only Glengarnock as its name.

Services

Preceding Station	National Rail			Following Station
Dalry		Abellio ScotRail Ayrshire Coast Line		Lochwinnoch
	Historical railways
Dalry Line and station open		Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway		Beith Line open; station closed

References

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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Video of the station in 2015