Whinhill railway station is a railway station located in the east of the town of

Greenock Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh of barony, burgh within the Counties of Scotland, historic ...

, Inverclyde, Scotland. The station is managed by

ScotRail ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail ( gd, Rèile na h-Alba), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government. It has been operating the ScotRail franchise a ...

and is on the Inverclyde Line, from Port Glasgow and from Glasgow Central. Opened in 1990, it is one of the newer stations on the line constructed by

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

. Its opening made the line available to users in the south-east of Greenock for the first time in almost thirty years, since the closure of Upper Greenock station.

Services

There is one train per hour eastbound to and one train per hour westbound to . The Wemyss bay services call at all westbound stations whilst the Glasgow Central services become express after joining with the other half of the Inverclyde Line at .

References

External links

Whinhill Station on YouTube
Railway stations in Greenock Railway stations opened by British Rail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1990 Railway stations served by ScotRail SPT railway stations 1990 establishments in Scotland {{Scotland-railstation-stub