High Street (Glasgow) Scottish Gaelic: Àrd-Shràid[1]
Train arriving at Glasgow High Street. The campus buildings of Strathclyde University are visible at the top of the photograph.
General information
Location	Glasgow, Glasgow Scotland
Coordinates	55°51′34″N 4°14′24″W / 55.8594°N 4.2400°W / 55.8594; -4.2400
Grid reference	NS598651
Owned by	Network Rail
Managed by	ScotRail
Transit authority	SPT
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	HST
History
Original company	Glasgow City and District Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
15 March 1866	Opened as College replacing the station on the CoGUR[2]
1 January 1914	Renamed as High Street[2][3]
Passengers
2019/20	0.815 million
2020/21	0.109 million
2021/22	0.369 million
2022/23	0.554 million
2023/24	0.827 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

High Street railway station serves High Street in Glasgow, Scotland and the surrounding area, which includes Townhead, the Merchant City, as well the western fringes of Dennistoun and Calton. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line. It is located in the eastern part of the city centre, with Strathclyde University, Glasgow Cathedral and Glasgow Royal Infirmary being major institutions located nearby.

The first railway station in the area was College on the City of Glasgow Union Railway which closed with the opening of this station in 1866.^[2] The station took its current name at the beginning of 1914.^[3]

As part of the proposed Crossrail Glasgow initiative, High Street station may be demolished and relocated.^[4]

There is a regular service Monday to Saturday to Glasgow Queen Street and beyond (Helensburgh Central etc.) on the North Clyde Line westbound and to Airdrie and Springburn eastbound.

Sundays there is a half-hourly service westbound to Glasgow Queen Street and Helensburgh Central and eastbound to Airdrie.

The station has half-hourly services westbound to each of Helensburgh Central (limited stop), Balloch via Singer (stopping), Milngavie and Dalmuir via Yoker (stopping) (8tph in all via Queen Street, Partick and Hyndland). Eastbound there are 6tph to Airdrie, of which 4tph continue all the way to Edinburgh Waverley via Bathgate (two of these are limited stop, the others call at all intermediate stations). There is also a half-hourly service to Springburn although this has now been extended to Cumbernauld station and also now runs on a Sunday.^[5]

On Sundays there is a half-hourly service to Helensburgh via Singer westbound and Edinburgh eastbound.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bellgrove		ScotRail Edinburgh Waverley - Helensburgh Central or Balloch		Glasgow Queen Street
Garrowhill
	Historical railways
Gallowgate Central Line and Station closed		Glasgow City and District Railway North British Railway		Glasgow Queen Street Line and Station open
Bellgrove Line and Station open		Coatbridge Branch North British Railway		Junction between Coatbridge Branch and Glasgow City and District Railway

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

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