Nitshill railway station

Nitshill
Location
Place	Nitshill
Local authority	Glasgow
Coordinates	55°48′43″N 4°21′37″W / 55.8119°N 4.3603°W / 55.8119; -4.3603Coordinates: 55°48′43″N 4°21′37″W / 55.8119°N 4.3603°W / 55.8119; -4.3603
Operations
Station code	NIT
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	15,234
2004/05 *	26,782
2005/06 *	36,440
2006/07 *	41,894
2007/08 *	47,225
2008/09 *	65,856
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	Opened[1]
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* 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. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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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.

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 Mondays-Saturdays only		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. (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. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
• RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway