Kingsknowe railway station


Kingsknowe railway station is a railway station serving Kingsknowe in the Scottish city of Edinburgh. It is located on the Shotts Line from to via Shotts. The station has two platforms, connected by a level crossing, and CCTV. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.
The passenger traction calling at this station is the "Super Sprinter" and also the. ScotRail class 380 also call at this station. As this station is east of the junction of the West Coast Main Line to, a variety of CrossCountry "Voyager", Avanti West Coast "Super Voyager", Class 390 "Pendolino" and London North Eastern Railway Class 801s can also be seen.

History

Kingsknowe station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 15 February 1848. It was closed to passenger services by British Railways on 6 July 1964 and reopened on 1 February 1971.

Services

It is currently served, Mondays to Saturdays, by one ScotRail service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. Two trains a day from Edinburgh terminate at and there is one through train in each direction between Glasgow and that calls.
There is a two-hourly Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and through to Glasgow since the December 2012 timetable change - prior to this, trains had only run as far as.