Kirkwood railway station

Kirkwood
Scottish Gaelic: Coille na Cille
265px Kirkwood railway station
Location
Place	Coatbridge
Local authority	North Lanarkshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	NS718642
Operations
Station code	KWD
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2005/06	0.114 million
2006/07	0.115 million
2007/08	0.121 million
2008/09	0.143 million
2009/10	0.141 million
2010/11	0.139 million
2011/12	0.150 million
2012/13	0.153 million
2013/14	0.130 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1993 (1993)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kirkwood from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Kirkwood railway station is located in the Kirkwood area of Coatbridge, Scotland. It is on the 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was opened by the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway in August 1866 and closed when passenger trains over the line were withdrawn on 7 November 1966.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 Milngavie via the Argyle Line since the start of electric operation. 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. 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.

External links

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Whifflet		Abellio ScotRail Argyle Line		Bargeddie
	Historical railways
Langloan Line open; station closed		Caledonian Railway Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway		Drumpark Line and station open