Whinhill railway station

Whinhill
Whinhill
	Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc a' Chonaisg[1]
Location
Place	Greenock
Local authority	Inverclyde
Coordinates	55.9384°N 4.7466°W
Grid reference	NS285751
Operations
Station code	WNL
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	1
	Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections; from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	52,634
2015/16	53,558
2016/17	43,696
2017/18	52,428
2018/19	41,606
History
14 May 1990	Opened
	National Rail – UK railway stations
	Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Whinhill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.;

Whinhill railway station is a railway station located in the east of the town of Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Inverclyde Line, 2 ¹⁄₄ miles (3.6 km) from Port Glasgow and 22 ¹⁄₂ miles (36.2 km) from Glasgow Central.

Opened in 1990, it is one of the newer stations on the line constructed by British Rail. Its opening made the line available to users in the south-east of Greenock for the first time in almost thirty years, since the closure of Upper Greenock station.

Services

There is one train per hour calling each way at Whinhill.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Drumfrochar		Abellio ScotRail Inverclyde Line		Port Glasgow

References

Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

Train times and station information for Whinhill railway station from National Rail

Media related to Whinhill railway station at Wikimedia Commons

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[1] Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)