Kirkconnel railway station
Kirkconnel  | |
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Up (southbound) platform | |
| Location | |
| Place | Kirkconnel |
| Local authority | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Coordinates | 55°23′15″N 3°59′56″W / 55.3875°N 3.9988°WCoordinates: 55°23′15″N 3°59′56″W / 55.3875°N 3.9988°W |
| Grid reference | NS735122 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | KRK |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2009/10 |
 17,494 |
| 2010/11 |
16,936 |
| 2011/12 |
 18,262 |
| 2012/13 |
18,500 |
| 2013/14 |
21,026 |
| History | |
| Original company | Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway |
| 28 October 1850[1] | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kirkconnel from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Kirkconnel railway station is a railway station in the town of Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The station is unstaffed and is managed by Abellio ScotRail.
History
Kirkconnel is situated on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway main line between Kilmarnock and Carlisle. It was one of the few stations on the route to avoid the Beeching Axe in the mid-1960s and was the only intermediate station between Kilmarnock and Dumfries for many years.
The railway poet
A plaque at the station commemorates Alexander Anderson, the poet from Kirkconnel, who rose from being a railway worker to become Chief Librarian at Edinburgh University. He was a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South Western railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman.[2]
Services
There is a two-hourly service in each direction (with one or two extras), southbound to Dumfries and Carlisle and northbound to Kilmarnock and Glasgow. There are also three trains per day to Newcastle.[3]
There is a limited service (two trains each way to Carlisle and Glasgow) on Sundays.
Gallery
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A freight train passing through Kirkconnel.jpg)
References
- ↑ Butt 1995, p. 136.
- ↑ Alexander Anderson
- ↑ Table 216 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
- Video and commentary on Alexander Anderson, poet
- Video and commentary on Kirkconnel Railway Station
Media related to Kirkconnel railway station at Wikimedia Commons
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Sanquhar | Abellio ScotRail Glasgow South Western Line |
New Cumnock | ||