Helensburgh Central railway station

Helensburgh Central railway station (Template:Langx) 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 from Glasgow Queen Street (High Level), measured via Singer and Maryhill. 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, which provides services to Oban, Fort William and Mallaig.

History

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A Class 303 unit seen at the station in 1981

The station was opened on 31 May 1858 (as Helensburgh), as the terminus of the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway.Template:Sfn The GD&HR was taken over by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway company in 1862, which in turn was absorbed by the North British Railway three years later. It was given its current name on 8 June 1953,Template:Sfn with electric operation beginning in November 1960 as part of the North Clyde modernisation scheme. The entire station building and platforms were rebuilt in 1897 to the design of James Carswell.

Facilities

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Platforms 1 and 2 at the station

The station has a ticket office, a coffee shop, an accessible toilet, waiting rooms, bike racks, various benches, payphones, a help point and a cash machine, as well as an accessible car park. All areas of the station have step-free access, except the Princes Street East entrance to the ticket hall.

Passenger volume

Passenger Volume at Helensburgh Central

	2002–03	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20	2020–21	2021–22	2022–23
Entries and exits	854,599	889,194	948,417	928,813	894,588	1,164,870	1,139,534	1,179,284	1,210,632	1,192,148	826,406	843,343	810,965	765,322	773,722	753,118	716,864	81,510	370,770	499,674
Interchanges	–Template:Refn	180	57	49	45	90	8	25	37	36	31	264	181	168	308	238	48	19	43	45

The statistics cover twelve-month periods that start in April.

Services

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour Mondays to Saturdays is:

• 2 tph to Edinburgh Waverley via Glasgow Queen Street (semi-fast)

On Sundays, the same service operates at the same frequency, but trains heading to Edinburgh Waverley serve all stations via Singer.

Preceding station	National Rail National Rail			Following station
Craigendoran	style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	ScotRail North Clyde Line	style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Terminus
	Historical railways
Craigendoran Line and Station open		Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway North British Railway		Terminus

External links

• Train times and station information for Helensburgh Central railway station from National Rail
• Video footage of Helensburgh Central