Kilmarnock train station
You can reach 25 stations directly from Kilmarnock on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Barrhead, with 68 trains a day.
Kilmarnock is the nearest station for postcodes in KA1, KA2, KA4, KA16, KA17. Check your own postcode.
- 25 direct destinations
- 900th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 101 parking spaces
Direct trains from Kilmarnock
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrhead | 68 | 66 | 28 |
| Dunlop | 68 | 66 | 28 |
| Glasgow Central | 68 | 66 | 28 |
| Kilmaurs | 68 | 66 | 28 |
| Stewarton | 68 | 66 | 28 |
| Kennishead | 36 | 36 | 26 |
| Nitshill | 36 | 36 | 26 |
| Priesthill & Darnley | 36 | 36 | 26 |
| Crossmyloof | 35 | 36 | 0 |
| Pollokshaws West | 35 | 36 | 26 |
| Auchinleck | 19 | 17 | 4 |
| Ayr | 19 | 19 | 0 |
| Troon | 19 | 19 | 0 |
| Dumfries | 18 | 17 | 4 |
| Kirkconnel | 18 | 17 | 4 |
| New Cumnock | 18 | 17 | 4 |
| Sanquhar | 18 | 17 | 4 |
| Annan | 14 | 14 | 4 |
| Carlisle | 14 | 14 | 4 |
| Gretna Green | 14 | 14 | 4 |
| Girvan | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| Maybole | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| Prestwick Town | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| Barrhill | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Stranraer | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Lines serving Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock is on the Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Line and the Glasgow South Western Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Kilmarnock station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Kilmarnock station on 30 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 5 paths on the Wednesday, 3 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 7 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 05:00 to 06:00 on the Monday, with 3 paths booked.
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 Kilmarnock station is
467,114 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 900th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 6,916 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Kilmarnock and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 253,416 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: 17 stations instead of 25, a drop of about 32%. Saturday runs to 25.
Nearest other stations
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Kilmarnock, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Riccarton and Craigie · 1.1 miles
- Hurlford · 1.7 miles
- Crosshouse · 1.9 miles
- Barleith · 2.4 miles
- Gatehead · 2.5 miles
- Springside · 3.6 miles
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Facilities at Kilmarnock station
Kilmarnock is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:30 to 18:00 · Friday: 06:30 to 19:45 · Saturday: 07:15 to 18:15 · Sunday: 09:10 to 16:50
Toilets · Waiting room · WiFi
Parking at Kilmarnock station
- Station Car Park 101 spaces, 6 accessible
£3.00 a day
Cycle parking: 25 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Kilmarnock station
Kilmarnock station is in East Ayrshire, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M77 J8, 3.2 miles north-east.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Kilmarnock 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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