Whinhill railway station
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General information | |||||
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Location | Greenock, Inverclyde Scotland | ||||
Coordinates | 55°56′18″N 4°44′48″W / 55.9384°N 4.7466°W | ||||
Grid reference | NS285751 | ||||
Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
Platforms | 1 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | WNL | ||||
Key dates | |||||
14 May 1990 | Opened | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2019/20 | 40,612 | ||||
2020/21 | 4,598 | ||||
2021/22 | 22,292 | ||||
2022/23 | 27,304 | ||||
2023/24 | 38,220 | ||||
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Whinhill railway station is a railway station located in the east of the town of Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland. The station is managed by 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
[edit]The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2]
- 2 tph to Glasgow Central via Paisley Gilmour Street
- 2 tph to Wemyss Bay
This service is reduced to hourly during the evenings, and on Sundays.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Drumfrochar | ScotRail Inverclyde Line |
Port Glasgow |
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "Scotrail timetables - "Ayrshire, Inverclyde & Stranraer"". 16 November 2024.
External links
[edit]- Train times and station information for Whinhill railway station from National Rail
Media related to Whinhill railway station at Wikimedia Commons