Kirkconnel Railway Station

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. HistoryKirkconnel is situated on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway main line between and. 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 poetA 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. ServicesThere is a two-hourly service in each direction, southbound to and and northbound to Kilmarnock and Glasgow. There are also three trains per day to. There is a limited service on Sundays.

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. HistoryKirkconnel is situated on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway main line between and. 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 poetA 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. ServicesThere is a two-hourly service in each direction, southbound to and and northbound to Kilmarnock and Glasgow. There are also three trains per day to. There is a limited service on Sundays.