Kirkwood railway station
Location | Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire Scotland |
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Coordinates | 55°51′15″N 4°02′53″W / 55.8542°N 4.0481°WCoordinates: 55°51′15″N 4°02′53″W / 55.8542°N 4.0481°W |
Grid reference | NS718642 |
Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | KWD |
History | |
Opened | 1993 |
Passengers | |
2016/17 | 0.167 million |
2017/18 | 0.157 million |
2018/19 | 0.139 million |
2019/20 | 0.148 million |
2020/21 | 21,684 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Kirkwood railway station is located in the Kirkwood area of Coatbridge, Scotland. It is on the Whifflet Line (a branch of the more extensive Argyle Line), 10 miles (16 km) east of Glasgow Central railway station. Train services are provided by Abellio ScotRail. The station was opened by British Rail in 1993, and is virtually on the site of the old Woodside Steel and Iron Works. It is located some 250m west of the previous Langloan station, which was opened by the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway in August 1866 and closed when passenger trains over the line were withdrawn on 7 November 1966.
Services[]
A half-hourly service operates between Glasgow Central and Whifflet stations, on Mondays to Saturdays. This formerly ran to/from Central High Level and was DMU operated, but now runs to Dalmuir via the Argyle Line. Alternate services continue south of Whifflet through to Motherwell.
Sunday services previously only ran for the month prior to Christmas and were extended to Shotts.[2] However, since the December 2014 timetable change, they now run throughout the year. An hourly service runs in each direction, to Motherwell and Balloch via Glasgow Central Low Level.[3]
References[]
External links[]
- Train times and station information for Kirkwood railway station from National Rail
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Whifflet | Abellio ScotRail Argyle Line |
Bargeddie | ||
Historical railways | ||||
Langloan Line open; station closed |
Caledonian Railway Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway |
Line and station open |
- Railway stations in North Lanarkshire
- Railway stations opened by British Rail
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1993
- Railway stations served by Abellio ScotRail
- Coatbridge
- Scotland railway station stubs