Kinning Park subway station

Kinning Park subway station serves the Kinning Park area of Glasgow, Scotland. However, to reach Kinning Park, a footbridge is provided across the M8.

Key Information

Kinning Park Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Kinning
General information
Location	Kinning Park, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55°51′03″N 4°17′17″W / 55.85083°N 4.28806°W / 55.85083; -4.28806
Operated by	SPT
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Construction
Structure type	underground
Accessible	No
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	14 December 1896
Rebuilt	16 April 1980; 45 years ago (1980-04-16)
Passengers
2018	0.655 million annually[1]
Services
Preceding station SPT Following station Shields Road anticlockwise / inner circle Glasgow Subway Cessnock clockwise / outer circle
Preceding station	SPT			Following station
Shields Road anticlockwise / inner circle		Glasgow Subway		Cessnock clockwise / outer circle
Location
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It was opened in 1896 and comprehensively modernised in 1977–1980. The station retains its original island platform configuration.

Kinning Park station is the shallowest in the Subway system.

The station is lightly used and recorded only 240,000 boardings in the 12 months ending March 2005.^[2]

New ticket barriers came into operation on 10 July 2013.

1. ^ "Request for some usage statistics". Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 11 January 2019. Archived from the original on 1 March 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2019 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.
2. ^ SPT stats 2005
3. ^ "Freedom of Information request: Subway station patronage - 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012". Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. 18 December 2012. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019 – via WhatDoTheyKnow.

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