West Street subway station
West Street subway station on the Glasgow Subway network serves the Tradeston and Kingston areas of Glasgow, Scotland. Left in an isolated industrial area by post-war reconstruction, it is the least busy station on the network with just 150,000 boardings in the 12 months to 31 March 2005 and under 100,000 by 2012.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Metro station
- Description: subway station in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “West Street SPT Subway Station”
- Wheelchair access: no
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Scotland Street School Museum and Glasgow Central Station.
Scotland Street School Museum
Museum
Photo: Finlay McWalter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Scotland Street School Museum is a museum of school education in Glasgow, Scotland, in the district of Kingston. It is located in a former school designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh between 1903 and 1906. Scotland Street School Museum is situated 1,600 feet west of West Street subway station.
Glasgow Central Station
Railway station
Photo: Robinson3048, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasgow Central, usually referred to in Scotland as just Central or Central Station, is one of two principal main line rail terminals in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow Central Station is situated 3,600 feet northeast of West Street subway station.
St Andrew’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew or Glasgow Metropolitan Cathedral is a Latin Catholic cathedral in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. St Andrew’s Cathedral is situated 3,400 feet northeast of West Street subway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingston and Tradeston.
Kingston
Suburb
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingston is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, from which the Kingston Bridge takes its name. Together with Ibrox, it forms one of the 56 neighbourhoods of Glasgow defined by Glasgow City Council for operational purposes.
Tradeston
Suburb
Photo: Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tradeston is a small district in the Scottish city of Glasgow adjacent to the city centre on the south bank of the River Clyde. The name reflected its role as a primarily dockland area with a large number of warehouses and wharves along the riverside were vessels would be unloaded.
Laurieston
Quarter
Laurieston is a district in the Gorbals area of the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde. It derives its name from James Laurie who, along with his brother, developed a large part of the district in the early 19th century.
West Street subway station
- Categories: underground station, railway station, station, and transportation
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.84954° or 55° 50′ 58″ northLongitude
-4.26584° or 4° 15′ 57″ westElevation
43 feet (13 metres)Network
Glasgow SubwayOpen location code
9C7QRPXM+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 30004633OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=no
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to Ukrainian—“West Street subway station” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Stacio Uest-Strato”
- Finnish: “West Streetin metroasema”
- French: “West Street”
- Japanese: “ウェスト・ストリート駅”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “West Street undergrunnsstasjon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “West Street undergrunnstasjon”
- Norwegian: “West Street undergrunnsstasjon”
- Russian: “Вест-стрит”
- Ukrainian: “Вест-Стріт”
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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 “West Street subway station”. Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.