Helensburgh Central railway station
Helensburgh Central railway station serves the town of Helensburgh on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde, near Glasgow, Scotland. The station is a terminus on the North Clyde Line, sited 24 miles 31 chains from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Singer and Maryhill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Helensburgh Central Railway Station”, “Helensburgh Central Station”, and “HLC”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Scottish Submarine Centre and St Michael and All Angels’ Church.
Scottish Submarine Centre
Museum
The Scottish Submarine Centre is a submarine naval museum in west Scotland. Scottish Submarine Centre is situated 670 feet northwest of Helensburgh Central railway station.
St Michael and All Angels’ Church
Church
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Michael and All Angels’ Church is situated 1,800 feet west of Helensburgh Central railway station.
Helensburgh Upper railway station
Railway station
Photo: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Helensburgh Upper railway station serves the town of Helensburgh, Scotland, on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde to the west of Glasgow. It is located in a residential area uphill from the town centre and is by far the smaller of the town's two stations. Helensburgh Upper railway station is situated 3,100 feet north of Helensburgh Central railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Helensburgh and Craigendoran.
Helensburgh
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Helensburgh is a town in Argyll and Bute, on the north bank of the River Clyde 30 miles west of Glasgow, at the opening of Gare Loch. It developed from the 19th century once ferries and the railway connected it to Glasgow: wealthy business people built their villas here, and made sure to keep heavy industry away from their bosky avenues.
Craigendoran
Suburb
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Craigendoran is a suburb at the eastern end of Helensburgh in Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Clyde. The name is from the Gaelic for "the rock of the otter".
Rhu
Village
Photo: Brian D Osborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhu is a village and historic parish on the east shore of the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The traditional spelling of its name was Row, but it was changed in the 1920s so that outsiders would pronounce it correctly. Rhu is situated 2 miles northwest of Helensburgh Central railway station.
Helensburgh Central railway station
- Category: transportation
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.00385° or 56° 0′ 14″ northLongitude
-4.73157° or 4° 43′ 54″ westElevation
36 feet (11 metres)Operator
ScotRailNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“HLC”Open location code
9C8Q2739+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 26973276OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Japanese—“Helensburgh Central railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Helensburgh Central”
- Dutch: “Station Helensburgh Central”
- French: “gare de Helensburgh Central”
- French: “Helensburgh Central”
- Irish: “Baile Eilidh Meadhain”
- Japanese: “ヘレンズバラ・セントラル駅”
- Japanese: “へレンズバラ中央駅”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Helensburgh Central railway station”. Photo: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.