Glengarnock railway station

For the station on the former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, see Glengarnock High railway station.

Glengarnock railway station is a railway station in the village of Glengarnock, North Ayrshire, Scotland, serving the towns of Beith and Kilbirnie. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.

Glengarnock Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Gairneag[1]
Glengarnock station in 2015.
General information
Location	Glengarnock, North Ayrshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.7389°N 4.6752°W / 55.7389; -4.6752
Grid reference	NS321527
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	GLG
History
Original company	Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
21 July 1840	Opened as Glengarnock and Kilbirnie[2]
1 June 1905	Renamed Glengarnock[2]
Passengers
2019/20	0.382 million
2020/21	48,242
2021/22	0.183 million
2022/23	0.236 million
2023/24	0.282 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

The station was opened on 21 July 1840 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (later part of the Glasgow and South Western Railway) and was named Glengarnock and Kilbirnie.^[2] The station is marked on an 1897 Ordnance Survey maps as Kilbirnie Station.^[3] It was renamed Glengarnock on 1 June 1905 to coincide with the opening of the dedicated Kilbirnie railway station on the Dalry and North Johnstone Line.^[2][4] Although this Kilbirnie station closed in 1966,^[4] the original station has continued to use only Glengarnock as its name.

Services

There are three trains per hour between Glengarnock and Glasgow in both directions for most of the day, reduced to a half-hourly service in the evenings. Trains from Glasgow continue to one of Ayr, Largs or Ardrossan Harbour There is an hourly Sunday service to Glasgow and Largs.^[5]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dalry		ScotRail Ayrshire Coast Line		Lochwinnoch
	Historical railways
Dalry Line and station open		Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway		Beith North Line open; station closed