Nitshill railway station

Nitshill National Rail
Location
Place Nitshill
Local authority Glasgow
Coordinates 55°48′43″N 4°21′37″W / 55.8119°N 4.3603°W / 55.8119; -4.3603Coordinates: 55°48′43″N 4°21′37″W / 55.8119°N 4.3603°W / 55.8119; -4.3603
Grid reference NS521601
Operations
Station code NIT
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Increase 95,430
2013/14 Decrease 92,842
2014/15 Increase 109,204
2015/16 Decrease 107,930
2016/17 Increase 112,126
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE SPT
History
Original company Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
Pre-grouping G&SWR & CR
Post-grouping LMS
27 September 1848 Opened[1]
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Nitshill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Nitshill railway station is situated in Nitshill, a district of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line, 5 3⁄4 miles (9.3 km) southwest of Glasgow Central.

History

The station was opened by the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway on 27 September 1848.[1]

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has no ticketing provision, so all tickets must be bought prior to travel or on the train. There are no permanent buildings here other than standard waiting shelters on each platform and a pedestrian footbridge.[2] Train running information is offered via digital display screens, timetable posters and automated announcements; a help point is also provided on each side. Step-free access is only possible to platform 1.[3]

Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a half-hourly service northbound to Glasgow Central and southbound to Barrhead. This drops to hourly in the evenings with southbound services extending to Kilmarnock with one extending to Dumfries.[4]

From 21 May 2017 there is an hourly Sunday service to Glasgow Central and to Kilmarnock.[5]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Barrhead   Abellio ScotRail
Glasgow South Western Line
Mondays-Saturdays only
   Priesthill & Darnley
  Historical railways  
Barrhead   Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways
Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
   Kennishead

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Butt (1995), page 1848
  2. ↑ Nitshill Railway station (2013) 'Laird, G Geograph.org.uk, Retrieved 25 May 2017
  3. ↑ Nitshill station facilities National Rail Enquiries
  4. ↑ Table 222 National Rail timetable, May 2017
  5. ↑ "Train Times" (PDF). Retrieved 16 May 2017.

Sources

  • 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.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
  • RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway


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