- Milliken Park railway station
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Milliken Park Location Place Johnstone Local authority Renfrewshire Coordinates 55°49′30″N 4°32′02″W / 55.8249°N 4.5339°WCoordinates: 55°49′30″N 4°32′02″W / 55.8249°N 4.5339°W Grid reference NS413620 Operations Station code MIN Managed by First ScotRail Number of platforms 2 Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail EnquiriesAnnual rail passenger usage 2004/05 * 92,130 2005/06 * 0.110 million
2006/07 * 0.118 million
2007/08 * 0.124 million
2008/09 * 0.155 million
Passenger Transport Executive PTE SPT History Original company Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Pre-grouping Glasgow and South Western Railway Post-grouping LMS 21 July 1840 Opened as Cochrane Mill 1 March 1853 Renamed Milliken Park 18 April 1966 Closed 15 May 1989 New station opened 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 Milliken Park from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year. Milliken Park railway station is a railway station serving the west end of Johnstone and the south west of the village of Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.
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History
The original Milliken Park station was opened on 21 July 1840 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway and was known as Cochrane Mill.[1] The station was renamed Milliken Park on 1 March 1853,[1] and closed to passengers on 18 April 1966.[2] The site of this station's goods yard is now a bus depot. The signal box remained in use until it was destroyed by fire in an act of vandalism on 1 March 1978.[citation needed]
The current station opened on 15 May 1989,[2] to the south west of the original on the other side of new Cochranemill Road bridge (built in 1974/5) next to the Corseford Housing Estate. Provision for the station had been made in the siting and construction of the overhead electrification equipment.
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Sources
- Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
Preceding station National Rail
Following station Howwood First ScotRail
Johnstone Historical railways Howwood
Line and station openGlasgow and South Western Railway
Johnstone
Line and station openCategories:- Railway stations in Renfrewshire
- Railway stations opened in 1840
- Railway stations closed in 1966
- Railway stations opened in 1989
- Former Glasgow and South Western Railway stations
- Beeching closures in Scotland
- Railway stations served by First ScotRail
- SPT railway stations
- 1840 establishments in Scotland
- 1989 establishments in the United Kingdom
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