Howwood train station
You can reach 26 stations directly from Howwood on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Glasgow Central, with 74 trains a day.
Howwood is the nearest station for postcodes in PA9. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Howwood
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow Central | 74 | 71 | 0 |
| Johnstone | 74 | 71 | 29 |
| Kilwinning | 74 | 71 | 29 |
| Lochwinnoch | 74 | 71 | 29 |
| Milliken Park | 74 | 71 | 29 |
| Paisley Gilmour Street | 74 | 71 | 29 |
| Ardrossan South Beach | 72 | 69 | 29 |
| Dalry | 72 | 70 | 29 |
| Glengarnock | 72 | 70 | 29 |
| Saltcoats | 72 | 69 | 29 |
| Stevenston | 72 | 69 | 29 |
| Fairlie | 36 | 35 | 29 |
| Largs | 36 | 35 | 29 |
| West Kilbride | 35 | 35 | 29 |
| Ardrossan Town | 30 | 30 | 0 |
| Ardrossan Harbour | 30 | 30 | 0 |
| Ayr | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Barassie | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Irvine | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Newton-on-Ayr | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Prestwick International Airport | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Prestwick Town | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Troon | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Cardonald | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Hillington East | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Hillington West | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Howwood
Howwood is on the Ayrshire Coast Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Howwood station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Howwood station on 16 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 4 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 1 of them runs whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Howwood station is
75,126 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,886th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Howwood and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 42,484 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Sundays
Sunday is a different railway here: 13 stations instead of 26, a drop of about 50%. Saturday runs to 26.
Nearest other stations
- Milliken Park 1.5 miles
- Lochwinnoch 2.6 miles
- Johnstone 2.8 miles
- Paisley St James 5.5 miles
- Neilston 5.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Howwood, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Castle Semple · 0.5 miles
- Kilbarchan · 1.6 miles
- Lochwinnoch (loop) · 2.7 miles
- Johnstone North · 2.8 miles
- Houston · 3.0 miles
- Bridge of Weir · 3.1 miles
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Facilities at Howwood station
Howwood is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Waiting room
Parking at Howwood station
- Station Car Park 30 spaces, 2 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Howwood station
Howwood station is in Renfrewshire, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M8 J29 (St. James Interchange), 5.4 miles north-east.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Howwood station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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