New Cumnock railway station

New Cumnock railway station is a railway station serving the town of New Cumnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line, 45.5 miles (73.2 km) south west of Glasgow Central.

New Cumnock
Scottish Gaelic: Cumnag Nuadh[1]
New Cumnock railway station, looking towards Auchinleck and Kilmarnock
Location
PlaceNew Cumnock
Local authorityEast Ayrshire
Coordinates55.4022°N 4.1832°W / 55.4022; -4.1832
Grid referenceNS618142
Operations
Station codeNCK
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 31,852
2015/16 28,416
2016/17 26,604
2017/18 26,696
2018/19 28,280
Passenger Transport Executive
PTESPT
History
Original companyGlasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
20 May 1850[2]Opened
6 December 1965[2]Closed
27 May 1991[2]Reopened by British Rail
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at New Cumnock from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

At one time all goods trains had to stop here for inspection before proceeding. On the bleak section beyond the station the London, Midland and Scottish Railway constructed water troughs to permit longer non-stop passenger express runs to be included in the schedules of the Scottish Division.[3] The station closed in 1965 but was reopened by British Rail in 1991.

Services

Monday to Saturdays there is a two-hourly service northbound to Glasgow Central and southbound to Carlisle (two early morning trains originate from Dumfries and two terminate there in the evening, whilst another service from Glasgow terminates here but returns north out of service as empty coaching stock). One afternoon southbound train continues through to Newcastle Central via the Tyne Valley line.

Sundays two trains a day travel in each direction towards Glasgow Central and Carlisle.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Kirkconnel   Abellio ScotRail
Glasgow South Western Line
   Auchinleck
  Historical railways  
Kirkconnel
Line and station open		   Glasgow and South Western Railway
Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway
   Cumnock
Line open; station closed

References
  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Butt 1995, p. 169.
  3. Robin, G. H. (1962), The Nith Valley Route. The Railway Magazine, January P. 26.

2007 views
  • A Glasgow train departing towards Kirkconnel
  • New Cumnock signal box and the coal transhipment siding on the right
  • Both platforms in view and looking towards Kirkconnel
  • A view of the station from the overbridge, looking towards Auchinleck

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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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.


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