Glasgow Queen Street railway station
Glasgow Queen Street is a passenger railway terminus serving the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the smaller of the city's two main line terminals; the larger is Glasgow Central.Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Glasgow Queen Street Railway Station”, “Glasgow Queen Street station”, “GLQ”, “Queen Street railway station”, “Queen Street station”, and “West George Street, Queen Street Station”
- Address: 38 George Square, Glasgow, G2 1DR
Photo: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include George Square and Gallery of Modern Art.
George Square
Square
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George Square is the principal civic square in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of six squares in the city centre, the others being Cathedral Square, St Andrew's Square, St Enoch Square, Royal Exchange Square, and Blythswood Square on Blythswood Hill. George Square is situated 540 feet south of Glasgow Queen Street railway station.
Gallery of Modern Art
Art gallery
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The Gallery of Modern Art is the main gallery of contemporary art in Glasgow, Scotland. GoMA offers a programme of temporary exhibitions and workshops. Gallery of Modern Art is situated 900 feet south of Glasgow Queen Street railway station.
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Music venue
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Glasgow Royal Concert Hall is a concert and arts venue located in Glasgow, Scotland. It is owned by Glasgow City Council and operated by Glasgow Life, an agency of Glasgow City Council, which also runs Glasgow's City Halls and Old Fruitmarket venue. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall is situated 830 feet northwest of Glasgow Queen Street railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glasgow and Merchant City.
Glasgow
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Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland on Clydeside in the Central Belt. Glasgow reinvented itself from the 1990s, one of the most successful examples in Britain, with a range of developments in industry, culture, cuisine and architecture.
Merchant City
Suburb
The Merchant City, a new name introduced through urban renewal by the Scottish Development Agency and the city council in the 1980s is one part of the metropolitan central area of Glasgow.
Blythswood Hill
Suburb
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Blythswood Hill, crowned by Blythswood Square, is an area of central Glasgow, Scotland. Its grid of streets extend from the length of the west side of Buchanan Street to Gordon Street and Bothwell Street, and to Charing Cross, Sauchiehall Street and Garnethill.
Glasgow Queen Street railway station
- Categories: dead-end railway station, station located on surface, underground station, building, and transportation
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.86252° or 55° 51′ 45″ northLongitude
-4.25121° or 4° 15′ 4″ westElevation
89 feet (27 metres)Levels
2Abbreviation
“GLQ”Open location code
9C7QVP7X+2GOpenStreetMap ID
way 225910565OpenStreetMap feature
building=train_station
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Glasgow Queen Street railway station” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Glasgow Queen Street tren geltokia”
- Chinese: “格拉斯哥皇后街站”
- Dutch: “station Glasgow Queen Street”
- Dutch: “Station Glasgow Queen Street”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة جلاسجو كوين ستريت”
- Esperanto: “Stacidomo Glasgovo Reĝinostrato”
- Finnish: “Glasgow Queen Streetin rautatieasema”
- French: “gare de Glasgow Queen Street”
- French: “Gare de Glasgow Queen Street”
- French: “Glasgow Queen Street”
- German: “Bahnhof Glasgow Queen Street”
- Irish: “Stéisean Sráid na Banríghinn”
- Italian: “stazione di Glasgow Queen Street”
- Italian: “Stazione di Glasgow Queen Street”
- Japanese: “グラスゴー・クイーン・ストリート駅”
- Japanese: “グラスゴー・クイーンストリート駅”
- Korean: “글래스고 퀸 스트리트 역”
- Korean: “퀸 스트리트 기차역”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Glasgow Queen Street stasjon”
- Norwegian: “Glasgow Queen Street stasjon”
- Persian: “ایستگاه راهآهن خیابان کویین گلاسکو”
- Polish: “Glasgow Queen Street”
- Russian: “Глазго-Куин-Стрит”
- Scots: “Glesga Queen Street railway station”
- Scots: “Glesga Queen Street railwey station”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Stèisean Ghlaschu Sràid na Banrighinn”
- Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Heol y Frenhines Glasgow”
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