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 | |||||
2018/19 | 41,606 | ||||
2019/20 | 40,612 | ||||
2020/21 | 4,598 | ||||
2021/22 | 22,292 | ||||
2022/23 | 27,304 | ||||
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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]There is one train per hour eastbound to Glasgow Central and one train per hour westbound to Wemyss Bay. The Wemyss bay services call at all westbound stations whilst the Glasgow Central services become express after joining with the other half of the Inverclyde Line at Port Glasgow.
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.
External links
[edit]- Train times and station information for Whinhill railway station from National Rail
Media related to Whinhill railway station at Wikimedia Commons