Milliken Park railway station

Milliken Park
Location
Place	Johnstone
Local authority	Renfrewshire
Coordinates	55°49′30″N 4°32′02″W / 55.8249°N 4.5339°W / 55.8249; -4.5339Coordinates: 55°49′30″N 4°32′02″W / 55.8249°N 4.5339°W / 55.8249; -4.5339
Grid reference	NS413620
Operations
Station code	MIN
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	92,130
2005/06 *	0.110 million
2006/07 *	0.118 million
2007/08 *	0.124 million
2008/09 *	0.155 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
21 July 1840	Opened as Cochrane Mill
1 March 1853	Renamed Milliken Park
18 April 1966	Closed
15 May 1989	New station opened
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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. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Milliken Park railway station is a railway station serving the west end of Johnstone and the south west of the village of Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line.

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.

References

Notes

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

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 ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

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