Kinning Park subway station

Kinning Park subway station serves the Kinning Park area of Glasgow, Scotland. However, to reach Kinning Park, a footbridge is provided across the M8.

Kinning Park

Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Kinning
General information
LocationKinning Park, Glasgow
Scotland
Coordinates55°51′03″N 4°17′17″W
Operated bySPT
Platforms2
Construction
Structure typeunderground
AccessibleNo
Other information
Fare zoneG
History
Opened14 December 1896
Passengers
20180.655 million annually
Services
Preceding station SPT Following station
Shields Road
anticlockwise / inner circle
Glasgow Subway Cessnock
clockwise / outer circle

It was opened in 1896 and comprehensively modernised in 1977–1980. The station retains its original island platform configuration.

Kinning Park station is the shallowest in the Subway system.

The station is lightly used and recorded only 240,000 boardings in the 12 months ending March 2005.

New ticket barriers came into operation on 10 July 2013.

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