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Kirkhill Scottish Gaelic:Cnoc na Cille[1]
General information
Location	Cambuslang,South Lanarkshire Scotland
Coordinates	55°48′51″N4°10′04″W / 55.8141°N 4.1678°W /55.8141; -4.1678
Grid reference	NS642600
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KKH
History
Original company	Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 August 1904	Opened[2]
Passengers
2020/21	5,950
2021/22	38,876
2022/23	58,128
2023/24	65,226
2024/25	64,162
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Kirkhill railway station is arailway station serving theKirkhill area of the town ofCambuslang,South Lanarkshire,Greater Glasgow,Scotland. The station is managed byScotRail and is located on theCathcart Circle Lines. This is the least used station on the Newton Branch.

The station was originally opened as part of theLanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway on 1 August 1904.^[2] Kirkhill station was the final station to be opened on the line before it was absorbed into theLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. From 1948 until 1997, services were operated by the nationalisedBritish Railways who electrified the route in 1962.

The station was provided with a Swiss Chalet style building on the tunnel above the east of the station, which was demolished in the late 1990s.

Following the electrification of theWest Coast Main Line the basic service was:

• Monday to Saturday

• two terminating trains per hour fromGlasgow Central viaMaxwell Park
• two trains per hour betweenGlasgow Central andNewton viaQueen's Park

• Sundays

• two trains per hour betweenGlasgow Central andNewton viaQueen's Park

• Additional peak hour services were provided toMotherwell via both sides of the Hamilton Circle.

Following the opening of theArgyle Line in November 1979, services on the Cathcart Circle were reorganised. The basic service was:

• Monday to Saturday

• two trains per hour betweenGlasgow Central andNewton viaMaxwell Park
• two trains per hour betweenGlasgow Central andNewton viaQueen's Park

• Sundays

• two trains per hour betweenGlasgow Central andNewton viaQueen's Park

The removal of terminating services at Kirkhill enabled the turnback siding east of the station to be closed and lifted shortly afterwards.

• Monday to Friday^[3]

• one train per hour betweenGlasgow Central andNewton viaMaxwell Park
• one train per hour betweenGlasgow Central andNewton viaQueen's Park
• Additional morning peak hour services.

• Saturday to Sunday

  • one train per hour betweenGlasgow Central andNewton viaMaxwell Park
  • one train per hour betweenGlasgow Central andNewton viaQueen's Park

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Burnside		ScotRail Cathcart Circle Lines		Newton
	Historical railways
Burnside Line and station open		Caledonian Railway Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway		Newton Line and station open
		Caledonian Railway Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway andGlasgow Central Railway		Carmyle Line partially open; station open

^[1]

• 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.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989).Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0.OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000).Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1.OCLC 228266687.

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