Kirkconnel railway station
Kirkconnel railway station is a railway station in the town of Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The station is unstaffed, owned by Network Rail and managed by Abellio ScotRail.
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Location | Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland |
Coordinates | 55.3875°N 3.9988°W |
Grid reference | NS735122 |
Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | KRK |
History | |
Original company | Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway |
Key dates | |
28 October 1850[2] | Opened |
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Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
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 the University of Edinburgh. He was a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South Western Railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman.[3]
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 is a single afternoon train per day southbound to Newcastle.[4]
There is a very limited service (two trains each way to Carlisle and Glasgow) on Sundays.
Gallery
- A freight train passing through Kirkconnel
References
- Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- Butt 1995, p. 136.
- Alexander Anderson
- Table 216 National Rail timetable, December 2019
Sources
- Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
- 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 978-1-85260-508-7. 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
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Sanquhar | Abellio ScotRail Glasgow South Western Line |
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