Kingsknowe railway station

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General information
Location	Kingsknowe, Edinburgh Scotland
Coordinates	55.9190°N 3.2642°W / 55.9190; -3.2642
Grid reference	NT210702
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KGE
History
Original company	Caledonian Railway
Key dates
15 February 1848	Opened as King's Knowe or Slateford
January 1853	Renamed
1 January 1917	Closed
1 February 1919	Reopened
6 July 1964	Closed
1 February 1971	Reopened
Passengers
2015/16	20,150
2016/17	18,800
2017/18	20,452
2018/19	17,196
2019/20	16,942
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Kingsknowe railway station is a railway station serving Kingsknowe in the Scottish city of Edinburgh. It is located on the Shotts Line from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. The station has two platforms, connected by a level crossing, and CCTV. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.

The passenger traction calling at this station is the Class 156 "Super Sprinter" and also the Class 158. ScotRail class 380 also call at this station. As this station is east of the junction of the West Coast Main Line to Carstairs, a variety of CrossCountry Class 220 "Voyager", Avanti West Coast Class 221 "Super Voyager", Class 390 "Pendolino" and London North Eastern Railway Class 801s can also be seen.

History

Kingsknowe station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 15 February 1848. It was closed to passenger services by British Railways on 6 July 1964 and reopened on 1 February 1971.

Services

It is currently served, Mondays to Saturdays, by one ScotRail service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. Two trains a day from Edinburgh terminate at Motherwell (one also starts back from there in the early morning) and there is one through train in each direction between Glasgow and North Berwick that calls (peak periods only - runs via Carstairs, with the evening train extended to Ayr).

There is a two-hourly Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and through to Glasgow since the December 2012 timetable change - prior to this, trains had only run as far as West Calder.

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. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.

External links

• Media related to Kingsknowe railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Video footage of the station

• Train times and station information for Kingsknowe railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Slateford		Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line		Wester Hailes
		Abellio ScotRail North Berwick Line