Helensburgh Central railway station

Helensburgh Central

Scottish Gaelic: Baile Eilidh Meadhain[1]
National Rail
The station seen in 2013
General information
LocationHelensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Scotland
Coordinates56°00′14″N 4°43′53″W / 56.0038°N 4.7315°W / 56.0038; -4.7315
Grid referenceNS297823
Managed byScotRail
Transit authoritySPT
Platforms3
Other information
Station codeHLC[2]
Fare zoneD4
History
Original companyGlasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Pre-groupingNorth British Railway
Post-groupingLNER
Key dates
31 May 1858[3]Opened as Helensburgh
8 June 1953[3]Renamed Helensburgh Central
Passengers
2018/19Decrease 0.753 million
2019/20Decrease 0.717 million
2020/21Decrease 81,510
2021/22Increase 0.371 million
2022/23Increase 0.500 million
Listed Building – Category B
Designated21 March 2002
Reference no.LB48538[4]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Helensburgh Central railway station (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Eilidh Meadhain) 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 (39.2 km) from Glasgow Queen Street (High Level), measured via Singer and Maryhill.[5] Passenger services are operated by ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

The station is Helensburgh's main railway station, the other being the much smaller Helensburgh Upper on the West Highland Line.

  1. ^ Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  2. ^ "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. ^ a b Quick 2022, p. 236.
  4. ^ "PRINCES STREET EAST, HELENSBURGH CENTRAL STATION INCLUDING PLATFORMS, CANOPIES, SCREEN WALLS AND GATES". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  5. ^ Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. p. 83. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.