Milliken Park railway station

Milliken Park railway station serves the west end of Johnstone and the south west of the village of Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.

For urban park in Toronto, see Milliken District Park.

Milliken Park
Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Mhaolagain[1]
Milliken Park in April 2012
Location
Place	Kilbarchan
Local authority	Renfrewshire
Coordinates	55.8247°N 4.5344°W / 55.8247; -4.5344
Grid reference	NS413620
Operations
Station code	MIN
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.198 million
2015/16	0.206 million
2016/17	0.241 million
2017/18	0.256 million
2018/19	0.238 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
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
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Milliken Park from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

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.[2] The station was renamed Milliken Park on 1 March 1853[2] and closed to passengers on 18 April 1966.[3] 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.

The current station opened on 15 May 1989,[3] by British Rail 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.

Facilities

The station has neither car park nor ticket office, however, there is a ticket machine situated within the shelter of platform 1. There are also six cycle stands available.[4]

Services

The Glasgow - Ayr stopping trains call here every 30 minutes off-peak (Monday to Saturday), with extra services at peak times. In the evening, there is an hourly service each way (with westbound trains to Ardrossan Harbour and also on Sundays (to/from Largs).[5]

References

Notes

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt, page 65
3. Butt, page 160
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 April 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. Table 221 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• 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 978-1-85260-508-7. 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Howwood		Abellio ScotRail Ayrshire Coast Line		Johnstone
	Historical railways
Howwood Line and station open		Glasgow and South Western Railway Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway		Johnstone Line and station open