Milliken Park railway station

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Milliken Park
Location
Place Johnstone & Kilbarchan
Local authority Renfrewshire
Coordinates 55°49′30″N 4°32′02″W / 55.8249, -4.5339Coordinates: 55°49′30″N 4°32′02″W / 55.8249, -4.5339
Grid reference NS413620
Operations
Station code MIN
Managed by First ScotRail
Platforms in use 2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 * 92,130
2005/06 * 110,211
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE SPT
History
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

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Milliken Park from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Milliken Park railway station is a railway station serving the west of Johnstone and south of Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.

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

The current station opened on 15 May 1989,[2] 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.

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Butt, page 65
  2. ^ a b Butt, page 160

[edit] 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, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 


  Preceding station     National Rail     Following station  
Howwood   First 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