Helensburgh Upper railway station
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.- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Helensburgh Upper Railway Station”, “Helensburgh Upper Station”, and “HLU”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hill House and Helensburgh Central railway station.
Hill House
Museum
The Hill House is a villa in Helensburgh, Scotland, designed between 1902 and 1904 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Commissioned by publisher Walter Blackie, the house was conceived in an innovative manner and is noted for its forward looking design and construction techniques. Hill House is situated 1,800 feet north of Helensburgh Upper railway station.
Helensburgh Central railway station
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. Helensburgh Central railway station is situated 3,100 feet south of Helensburgh Upper railway station.
Scottish Submarine Centre
Museum
The Scottish Submarine Centre is a submarine naval museum in west Scotland. Scottish Submarine Centre is situated 2,700 feet south of Helensburgh Upper railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Helensburgh and Craigendoran.
Helensburgh
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
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
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 west of Helensburgh Upper railway station.
Helensburgh Upper railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.01244° or 56° 0′ 45″ north
Longitude
-4.73077° or 4° 43′ 51″ west
Elevation
190 feet (58 metres)
Wheelchair access
yes
Operator
Network
Abbreviation
“HLU”
Open location code
9C8Q2769+XM
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—“Helensburgh Upper railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Helensburgh Upper”
- Dutch: “Station Helensburgh Upper”
- French: “gare de Helensburgh Upper”
- French: “Helensburgh Upper”
- Irish: “Baile Eilidh Uachdar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Stèisean Bhaile Eilidh Àrd”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Stèisean Bhaile Eilidh Uarach”
- Urdu: “ہیلنز برگ اپر ریلوے اسٹیشن”
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