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Nitshill
Location
Place Nitshill
Local authority Glasgow
Coordinates 55°48′43″N 4°21′37″W / 55.8119, -4.3603Coordinates: 55°48′43″N 4°21′37″W / 55.8119, -4.3603
Operations
Station code NIT
Managed by First ScotRail
Platforms in use 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 * 15,234
2004/05 * 26,782
2005/06 * 36,440
2006/07 * 41,894
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE SPT
History
Original company Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
Pre-grouping G&SWR & CR
Post-grouping LMS
27 September 1848 Opened1
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Nitshill from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

Nitshill railway station is situated in Nitshill, a district of Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line 9 km (5¾ miles) south west of Glasgow Central.

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History

The station was opened by the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway on 27 September 1848.1

Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a half-hourly service northbound to Glasgow Central and southbound to Barrhead. This drops to hourly in the evenings.

There is no Sunday service.

  Preceding station     National Rail     Following station  
Barrhead   First ScotRail

Glasgow South Western Line

  Priesthill & Darnley
Historical railways
Barrhead   Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways

Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway

  Kennishead

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b Butt (1995), page 1848

Sources

  • Butt, R.V.J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st Edition ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 


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