Kinning Park subway station facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Kinning Park Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Kinning
Location	Kinning Park, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55°51′03″N 4°17′17″W / 55.85083°N 4.28806°W / 55.85083; -4.28806
Operated by	SPT
Platforms	2
Construction
Structure type	underground
Disabled access	No
Other information
Fare zone	G
History
Opened	14 December 1896
Traffic
Passengers (2018)	0.655 million annually
Services
Preceding station SPT Following station Shields Road anticlockwise / inner circle Glasgow Subway Cessnock clockwise / outer circle

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

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.[1]

New ticket barriers came into operation on 10 July 2013.

Past passenger numbers

• 2004/05: 0.240 million annually
• 2011/12: 0.237 million annually