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City transport
 

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The best way to get between the city centre and the West End is to use the Underground (Mon-Sat 6.30am-11.30pm, Sun 11am-6pm), whose stations are marked with a large orange U. The service is extremely easy to use: there's a flat fare of 90p, or you can buy a day ticket for A?1.60 (Mon-Fri after 9.30am and all day weekends). The main stations are Buchanan Street , near George Square and connected to Queen Street train station by a moving walkway, and St Enoch , at the junction of Buchanan Street pedestrian precinct and Argyle Street. Hillhead station is bang in the heart of the West End, near the university.

The array of different bus companies and the various routes they take is perplexing even to locals, and there's no easy guide to using them other than picking up individual timetables at the Travel Centre on St Enoch's Square. The main operator is First Glasgow (tel 0141/423 6600), which runs the "Overground" buses. Arriva (tel 0141/885 4040) also operates many services. Information on relevant services is given at some bus stops.

The suburban train network is swift and convenient. There are two grim but functional cross-city lines : the one running through Central station connects to southeastern districts as far out as Lanark, while the Queen Street line links to the East End and points east. Trains on both lines go through Partick station, near the West End, which is also an underground stop; beyond Partick, the trains are an excellent way to link to points west and northwest of Glasgow, including Milngavie (for the start of the West Highland Way), Dumbarton and Helensburgh.


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