Transform Scotland - For Sustainable Transport

Sustainable Travel Information

On this page you will find useful travel information, for  sustainable travel within Scotland as well as travel between Scotland and the rest of the UK and Europe.

Stations
Bus and Local Transport
Coach
Rail
Ferry
Travel to Europe

 

Journey Planners and other useful websites

The Scottish Executive's Traveline Scotland journey planner provides information on bus, coach, rail, underground, ferry and air services

Walking route planner available at Walkit.com, has routes for Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Maps of cycling routes available on Sustrans website or see Cycle Streets journey planner.

The Transport Direct website  allows you to plan journey using different modes of transport, including cycling, and also features CO2 comparisons for using different modes.

Liftshare enables people to reduce car use by finding other people to share a car journey.

Stations (^)

Bus
Edinburgh Bus Station - Located on Elder St. near to Princes St. see map

Buchanan Bus Station, Glasgow - Located on Killermont St near North Hannover St. see map

Aberdeen Bus Station - Located on Guild St near to Railway Station see map

Seagate Bus Station, Dundee - Located on Seagate see map

Inverness Bus Station - Located at Farraline Park see map

Stirling Bus Station - Located on Goosecroft Rd see map

Bus Stations in Fife

Rail

Edinburgh Waverley - see map

Glasgow Central - see map

Glasgow Queen Street - see map

Aberdeen - see map

Dundee - see map

Bus and Local Transport (^)

Aberdeen & North East Scotland:
First Aberdeen - provide all local bus services within the city of Aberdeen
Stagecoach - provide bus services across the North East of Scotland

Edinburgh, & the Lothians:
Lothian Buses - provide most bus services in the city of Edinburgh
First South East and Central - provide most bus services across the rest of the Lothians

Tayside & Central:
Travel Dundee - provide local bus services within Dundee
Stagecoach - provide bus services in Fife and Perth
First South East and Central - provide bus services in Stirling, Falkirk and surrounding areas

Glasgow & the West of Scotland:
First Greater Glasgow - provide most local bus services in Glasgow
Stagecoach - provide bus services across Ayrshire, Glasgow and the
West of Scotland
Arriva - provide bus services in Glasgow & the West of Scotland
Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT) - run Glasgow Subway,
provide subsidised bus services, etc.

Inverness & the Highlands
Stagecoach - provide bus services in Inverness, Lochaber, Caithness and Skye

Northern Isles
Orkney public transport information
Stagecoach - provide local bus services in Orkney

Western Isles
Western Isles bus services

Coach (^)

Scottish Citylink Coaches - principal coach operator for services within Scotland.

National Express - run long-distance coach services from Scotland.

Rail (^)

ScotRail - run the majority of services within Scotland as well as the Caledonian Sleeper services to London

East Coast - is the main operator on the East Coast Main Line (Edinburgh-York-London King's Cross)

Virgin Trains - is the main operator on the West Coast Main Line (Glasgow-Birmingham-London Euston) and for Cross-Country services (South-West & South Coast of England-Birmingham-Scotland)

Cross Country - operate train services from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, as well as services running down the East coast of England to Birmingham and the South West.

First Transpennine Express - operate trains from Glagow and Edinburgh to destination across Northwest England

Ferry (^)

Caledonian MacBrayne - run most Hebrides & Clyde services

Northlink Ferries - run services to Orkney & Shetland

Western Ferries - run between Dunoon & Gourock

Travel to Europe (^)

Coach
Eurolines - coach services from London Victoria to destinations across Europe, run by National Express

Rail
Eurostar - operates high-speed rail services from London, St Pancras International to Paris & Brussels

Rail Europe - sells rail tickets from London to destinations across Europe

Ferry
To Ireland:
Stena Line - run ferries from Stranraer-Belfast, Heysham-Isle of Man & Liverpool-Dublin

P&O Irish Sea Ferries - Troon/Cairnryan-Larne & Liverpool-Dublin

To the continent:
Brittany Ferries - ferries from Portsmouth, Poole & Plymouth to France & Spain

P&O Ferries - ferries from Hull, Dover & Portsmouth to the Spain, France, Belgium & The Netherlands

Stena Line - ferries from Harwich to The Netherlands

AFerry.co.uk - ferry price comparison website with access to all ferry services in Scotland

Direct ferries - ferry ticket booking website


Rail Travel within Europe
TGV - French high-speed rail services

Thalys - Belgian high-speed rail services, running to Amsterdam, Cologne, Ostend, Paris, Geneva & Bordeaux

Die Bahn's journey planner (in English) - is unbeatable for planning international rail journeys