Kingsknowe railway station is a railway station serving Kingsknowe in the Scottish city of Edinburgh. It is located on the Shotts Line from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. The station has two platforms, connected by a level crossing, and CCTV. It is managed by ScotRail.

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Kingsknowe Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc an Rìgh[1]
General information
Location	Kingsknowe, Edinburgh Scotland
Coordinates	55.9190°N 3.2642°W / 55.9190; -3.2642
Grid reference	NT210702
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KGE
History
Original company	Caledonian Railway
Key dates
15 February 1848[2]	Opened as King's Knowe or Slateford
January 1853	Renamed
1 January 1917	Closed
1 February 1919	Reopened
6 July 1964	Closed
1 February 1971	Reopened
Passengers
2018/19	17,196
2019/20	16,942
2020/21	4,668
2021/22	11,214
2022/23	20,304
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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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.^[3]

It is currently served, Mondays to Saturdays, by one ScotRail service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley.^[4] Two trains a day from Edinburgh terminate at Motherwell (one also starts back from there in the early morning) and there is one through train in each direction between Glasgow and North Berwick that calls (peak periods only - runs via Carstairs, with the evening train extended to Ayr).

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 West Calder.

More information Preceding station, National Rail ...

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Slateford		ScotRail Shotts Line		Wester Hailes
		ScotRail North Berwick Line

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