Place Kirkconnel Station code KRK 2011/12 18,262 Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference NS735122 Managed by Abellio ScotRail 2012/13 18,500 | |
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Address Sanquhar DG4 6LX, United Kingdom Original company Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Similar Sanquhar railway station, New Cumnock railway st, Auchinleck railway station, Dumfries railway station, Stewarton railway station | ||
Kirkconnel railway station dumfries galloway
Kirkconnel railway station is a railway station in the town of Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The station is unstaffed and is managed by Abellio ScotRail.
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History
Kirkconnel is situated on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway main line between Kilmarnock and Carlisle. It was one of the few stations on the route to avoid the Beeching Axe in the mid-1960s and was the only intermediate station between Kilmarnock and Dumfries for many years.
The railway poet
A plaque at the station commemorates Alexander Anderson, the poet from Kirkconnel, who rose from being a railway worker to become Chief Librarian at Edinburgh University. He was a surfaceman or platelayer on the Glasgow and South Western Railway, and generally wrote under the name of Surfaceman.
Services
There is a two-hourly service in each direction (with one or two extras), southbound to Dumfries and Carlisle and northbound to Kilmarnock and Glasgow. There are also three trains per day to Newcastle.
There is a limited service (two trains each way to Carlisle and Glasgow) on Sundays.