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Location notes
Hyndland station is a suburban station in Glasgow's west end about 3 miles outside of Glasgow Queen Street station.
Railway type and traffic
Hyndland is served by a large number of services running between Milngavie / Helensburgh / Balloch / Dalmuir and Airdrie / Drumgelloch / Motherwell / Lanark. During the day time there are about 12 trains an hour in each direction. These services are operated by 318, 320 and 334 type electric multiple units.
Freight is extremely rare.
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Freight is extremely rare.
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Link to Real Time Trains
RTT Link Hyndland Station
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Environment
Glasgow suburban station - not recommended after dark.
Road directions
Accessible from Great Western Road (A82), but traffic in Glasgow tends to be pretty bad. Public transport is recommended.
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Hyndland Station map co-ordinates
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Hyndland Station map co-ordinates
Parking
There is no station car park, but the station is in a residential area so it should be possible to park in the nearby streets. However, driving in Glasgow's West End isn't always recommended because of the amount of traffic.
Public transport
Easily accessible from central Glasgow by train
Timetable - Adobe Acrobat format
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Timetable - Adobe Acrobat format
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Sun Compass
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Hyndland Station
Streetmap links
Hyndland Station general view map
Hyndland Station close up map
Windows Local Live Link - image quality may vary
Hyndland Station
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Hyndland Station
Googly map
Hyndland Station general view map
Hyndland Station close up map
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Hyndland Station
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Photographic notes
The station is an island platform on a curve which I find gives some interesting photos. Most vantages tend to be between trees and OHLE so it's more suited to stills rather than video photography.
Links to photographs at this location
Ewan's Photos - Hyndland
Ian's Railway Photos - Hyndland
General views - All photographs © Ewan Tait unless otherwise stated
Fig 1 - Looking north
South end of the station looking away from Glasgow
Fig 2 - Looking south
South end of the station looking towards Glasgow
Fig 3 - Looking north
From the north end of the station through the trees
Fig 4 - Looking south
View from the north end of the station of the rear of a Glasgow bound unit.
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The information on these pages is supplied for the benefit of railway enthusiasts who carry out a harmless hobby, and through the medium of photography and video, actually promote the railway industry. Railway enthusiasts can also act as eyes and ears against railway vandalism, and as such should surely be encouraged to do so by the supply of adequate information such as is found on this website.
This site has been created to assist railway photographers in their travels around the country. It is based on the personal knowledge and experience. No liability can be held against the web site or its contributions for incorrect information. Trainspots will endeavour to check all information and corrections will be accepted and posted accordingly.
Advice as to the locations general environment is given as a guide on each page. This information is a GUIDE only. ALWAYS be careful with your equipment, Trainspots can not be held responsible for your personal security. Avoid leaving your property on display for all to see, be aware of your surroundings at all times. There are, sadly, people who will not think twice about trying to steal your equipment.
Trainspots DOES NOT condone trespass and none of the information on this site should be taken as a right to trespass on either railway or private land. To the best of our knowledge all locations are publicly accessible areas, where they are not contact information will be given to the appropriate authority for permission to be obtained.
The content of this site is created and intended for all age ranges but the content of sites linked from this site are not subject to the same intentions. Trainspots will attempt to check links for validity but as time passes and the site grows this will not always be possible. Broken, or indeed updates to, links should be submitted to the editor for inclusion in the updates. All links external to the Trainspots site are opened in a new browser window. Trainspots has been running now for over 10 years and there are imitation sites and guides to railfotspots. But we are a free site and we continue on the path we started out on over a decade ago to provide a useful guide to UK Railway Photographic Locations.
