Whinhill railway station
Location | Greenock, Inverclyde Scotland |
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Coordinates | 55°56′18″N 4°44′48″W / 55.9384°N 4.7466°WCoordinates: 55°56′18″N 4°44′48″W / 55.9384°N 4.7466°W |
Grid reference | NS285751 |
Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Station code | WNL |
Key dates | |
14 May 1990 | Opened |
Passengers | |
2016/17 | 43,696 |
2017/18 | 52,428 |
2018/19 | 41,606 |
2019/20 | 40,612 |
2020/21 | 4,598 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Whinhill railway station is a railway station located in the east of the town of Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Inverclyde Line, 2+1⁄4 miles (3.6 km) from Port Glasgow and 22+1⁄2 miles (36.2 km) from Glasgow Central.
Opened in 1990, it is one of the newer stations on the line constructed by British Rail. Its opening made the line available to users in the south-east of Greenock for the first time in almost thirty years, since the closure of Upper Greenock station.
Services[]
There is one train per hour eastbound to Glasgow Central and one train per hour westbound to Wemyss Bay. The Wemyss bay services call at all westbound stations whilst the Glasgow Central services become express after joining with the other half of the Inverclyde Line at Port Glasgow.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Drumfrochar | Abellio ScotRail Inverclyde Line |
Port Glasgow |
References[]
- ^ Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
External links[]
- Train times and station information for Whinhill railway station from National Rail
Media related to Whinhill railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Railway stations in Greenock
- Railway stations opened by British Rail
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1990
- Railway stations served by Abellio ScotRail
- SPT railway stations
- 1990 establishments in Scotland
- Scotland railway station stubs