Giffnock railway station
Giffnock railway station is a railway station serving the town of Giffnock, East Renfrewshire. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the East Kilbride–Glasgow Central line. The station was closed for four months for modernisation works to commence.- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “GFN”, “Giffnock Railway Station”, and “Giffnock Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue and Williamwood railway station.
Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue
Synagogue
The Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue, commonly known as Giffnock Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 222 Fenwick Road in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, to the south of Glasgow, Scotland, in the United Kingdom. Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue is situated 1,500 feet southwest of Giffnock railway station.
Williamwood railway station
Railway station
Williamwood railway station is a railway station in the Williamwood area of the town of Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and lies on the Neilston branch of the Cathcart Circle Lines. Williamwood railway station is situated 3,700 feet south of Giffnock railway station.
Thornliebank railway station
Railway station
Thornliebank railway station is a railway station serving the village of Thornliebank, Greater Glasgow on the East Kilbride–Glasgow Central line. The station is managed by ScotRail, which provides all services at the station. Thornliebank railway station is situated 1 mile northwest of Giffnock railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Giffnock and Mansewood.
Giffnock
Town
Giffnock is a town and the administrative centre of East Renfrewshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies 3.7 miles east of Barrhead, 5.6 miles east-southeast of Paisley and 5.3 miles northwest of East Kilbride, at the southwest of the Greater Glasgow conurbation.
Mansewood
Suburb
Merrylee
Suburb
Merrylee is a neighbourhood in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde within the Newlands/Auldburn ward surrounded by other residential areas: Newlands, Cathcart and Muirend, and is a housing scheme consisting of mostly ex-local authority homes constructed in the 1950s and 60s.
Giffnock railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: East Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.80394° or 55° 48′ 14″ north
Longitude
-4.29296° or 4° 17′ 35″ west
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
Wheelchair access
yes
Operator
Network
Abbreviation
“GFN”
Open location code
9C7QRP34+HR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=station
OpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Giffnock railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Giffnock”
- Dutch: “Station Giffnock”
- French: “gare de Giffnock”
- French: “Giffnock”
- Urdu: “گف نوک ریلوے اسٹیشن”
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