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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 ...

, platforms = 2 , code = KGE , original = Caledonian Railway , years = 15 February 1848 , events = Opened as King's Knowe or Slateford , years1 = January 1853 , events1 = Renamed , years2 = 1 January 1917 , events2 = Closed , years3 = 1 February 1919 , events3 = Reopened , years4 = 6 July 1964 , events4 = Closed , years5 = 1 February 1971 , events5 = Reopened , mpassengers = , footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road Kingsknowe railway station is a

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serving Kingsknowe in the

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city of

. It is located on the Shotts Line from to via Shotts. The station has two platforms, connected by a

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, and CCTV. It is managed by

History

Kingsknowe station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 15 February 1848. It was closed to passenger services by British Railways on 6 July 1964 and reopened on 1 February 1971.

Services

It is currently served, Mondays to Saturdays, by one ScotRail service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. Two trains a day from Edinburgh terminate at (one also starts back from there in the early morning) and there is one through train in each direction between Glasgow and that calls (peak periods only - runs via , with the evening train extended to ). There is a two-hourly Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and through to Glasgow since the December 2012 timetable change - prior to this, trains had only run as far as .

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Video footage of the station
{{Railway stations served by Abellio Scotrail Railway stations in Edinburgh Railway stations served by ScotRail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1971 Reopened railway stations in Great Britain Beeching closures in Scotland Former Caledonian Railway stations