Kingsknowe Scottish Gaelic:Cnoc an Rìgh[1]
General information
Location	Kingsknowe,Edinburgh Scotland
Coordinates	55°55′08″N3°15′51″W / 55.9190°N 3.2642°W /55.9190; -3.2642
Grid reference	NT210702
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KGE
History
Original company	Caledonian Railway
Key dates
15 February 1848[2]	Opened asKing's Knowe orSlateford
January 1853	Renamed to Kingsknowe
1 January 1917	Closed
1 February 1919	Reopened
6 July 1964	Closed
1 February 1971	Reopened
Passengers
2019/20	16,942
2020/21	4,668
2021/22	11,214
2022/23	20,304
2023/24	33,176
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Kingsknowe railway station is arailway station servingKingsknowe in theScottish city ofEdinburgh. It is located on theShotts Line fromGlasgow Central toEdinburgh Waverley viaShotts. The station has two platforms, connected by alevel crossing, and CCTV. It is managed byScotRail.

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.^[3]

It is currently served, Mondays to Saturdays, by one ScotRail service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley.^[4] Two trains a day from Edinburgh terminate atMotherwell (one also starts back from there in the early morning) and there is one through train in each direction between Glasgow andNorth Berwick that calls (peak periods only - runs viaCarstairs, with the evening train extended toAyr).

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 asWest Calder.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Slateford		ScotRail Shotts Line		Wester Hailes
		ScotRail North Berwick Line

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987].Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps.ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• 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 ed.).Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7.OCLC 60251199.OL 11956311M.

• Media related toKingsknowe railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Video footage of the station

• Train times andstation information for Kingsknowe railway station fromNational Rail

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• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
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• Reopened railway stations in Great Britain
• Beeching closures in Scotland
• Former Caledonian Railway stations

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