Английская Википедия:Helensburgh Central railway station

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Helensburgh Central railway station (Шаблон:Lang-gd) 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 Шаблон:Convert 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 Шаблон:Stnlnk on the West Highland Line.

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.Шаблон: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,Шаблон: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 is well equipped, with 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. Шаблон:Clear left

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	–Шаблон: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

On weekdays & Saturdays, there is a typically half-hourly service to Edinburgh Waverley, via Glasgow Queen Street low-level and Airdrie, which skips stations between Dalmuir and Hyndland. On Sundays, the service remains half-hourly, but trains serve all stations via Шаблон:Rws.

Bibliography

• Шаблон:Butt-Stations
• Шаблон:Jowett-Atlas
• Шаблон:Cite bookШаблон:Quail-1

External links

• Video footage of Helensburgh Central