fiogf49gjkf0d Glasgow International
airport (tel 0141/887 1111,
) is at Abbotsinch, eight miles southwest of the city - not to be confused with Glasgow Prestwick airport, which is thirty miles south near Ayr. From the international airport, the Glasgow Airport Link bus (?3.30; information tel 0870/608 2608) runs from bus stops 1 or 2 into the central Buchanan Street bus station every fifteen minutes during the day. White airport taxis charge around ?15.
From
Glasgow Prestwick
airport (tel 01292/511000,
), buses to Glasgow depart from directly outside the terminal: there's an express bus (hourly; ?3.50; 50min), or Airbus #4 (Mon-Sat every 30min, Sun hourly), which costs just 50p if you have an air ticket but takes an hour and a half. The
train
station is a short walk from the terminal (alight at the airport not Prestwick Town), with trains taking 45 minutes to reach Glasgow (Mon-Sat every 30min, Sun hourly; ?4.90).
Nearly all
trains
from England come into
Central station
, which sits over Argyle Street, one of the city's main shopping thoroughfares. Bus #398 from the front entrance on Gordon Street shuttles every ten minutes to
Queen Street station
, at the corner of George Square, terminus for trains serving Edinburgh and the north. The walk between the two takes about ten minutes. Bus #398 also stops at
Buchanan Street bus station
, arrival point for regional and inter-city
coaches
.
Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections):
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