The Kintyre Forum

A new bus timetable offering a five time daily return services from Glasgow to Campbeltown will begin this Monday (23rd May 2011). West Coast Motors announced their new timetable which will run until 2nd October 2011 and now offers passengers a wider selection of travel times and significantly reduced journey times in what will be a huge boost to tourism in Argyll too.

The new timetable sees the daily bus service leave Campbeltown at 6.30am, 8.30am, 11.30am, 3.00pm and 5.00pm with all journey times reduced from Campbeltown to Glasgow’s Buchanan Street to 4hrs 6 minutes or less – the 06.30am service will take 3hrs 54mins from door to door.

Services from Glasgow’s Buchanan Street now leave at 7.00am, 9.30am, 12noon, 2.00pm and 6.00pm with the 7am service reducing the journey time to 3hrs 45 minutes.

To book your seat please visit http://www.citylink.co.uk, call into West Coast Motors offices in Campbeltown and Ardrishaig or visit our travel shop in the centre of Oban. Tickets can also be purchased from your driver.

The new timetable can be seen at http://www.westcoastmotors.co.uk/userfi ... mp_212.pdf

Further information on West Coast Motors can be found at http://westcoastmotors.co.uk

Fantastic. We as a family (our growing kids) will use thus even more. Can i ask? Any 5 pound tickets going?

Yes, just keyed a search for tickets for Monday morning and there were £5, £6 and £17 single journey tickets available.

On first view, this appears great, but I notice there is no real toilet stop. This is especially important for elderly passengers. Does this mean that, at long last, the onboard toilets will be unlocked?

I would hope a £17 single journey ticket includes a lot more than the use of an on board toilet?

fROSTY

This is brilliant! With increased fuel prices and the state of the roads I for one will be using the bus more. Great news.

april fool wrote:Yes, just keyed a search for tickets for Monday morning and there were £5, £6 and £17 single journey tickets available.

1 £17 Fare (Pee in a pot)
2 £6 Fare (Bring an extra pot, just incase)
3 £5 Fare (Your out the window)

maxmix

At least one good thing will happen, with all these extra buses running, there will be a massive saving in fares...

(Just think of all the extra £££ being made, with all the extra buses full of passengers, traveling both ways, people that could not get on these buses in the past because they were full)

Friend of Dorothy wrote:On first view, this appears great, but I notice there is no real toilet stop. This is especially important for elderly passengers. Does this mean that, at long last, the onboard toilets will be unlocked?

Question? Are the tiolets on the bus for use?

I believe there will be toilets on these buses -in fact I heard that West Coast Motors are buying some new, larger coaches for this service.

Great for all the reasons highlighted in previous posts, but ....

Unfortunately this service has been introduced as the "alternative" to the current council subsidised "commuter bus" between Campbeltown and Lochgilphead. The idea being that commuters will leave C'town at 6.30am, be in work in Lochgilphead for 8am, leave again at 4.20pm to get home around 6pm. This adds a further half hour to what is already an 11 hour day, for which most people get paid for 7 hours. It also assumes that commuters will have flexibility in their working hours - I know of many who do not.

The consultation with the users was non-existant and there is genuine dismay that those on the executive committee of the Council could withdraw such a service with no input from users - but it seems the decision has been made! None of the users had an expectation that they were entitled to a sunsidised or cheap service - but an alternative pricing policy was not even considered. And I believe that the Council are now subsidising this "enhanced" Glasgow service.

What now for those who can't work to these hours? Well a 500 mile round trip per week in private cars for those who drive adding again to the wear and tear of our fragile roads and environment. For those who don't or can't drive - they are already desperately hunting for jobs closer to home or facing joblessness. Lets hope for a jobs boom closer to home!!

The coach will be stopping at Inveraray for 5 minutes only, thus meaning toilets will be open for the whole journey. Journey times are also improved. Heard rumours the other day that it was a non stop service to Glasgow - this is untrue. All journeys will still serve all stops.

Just to let folk know, if they book their seat 2 days in advance they are guaranteed to get return travel for the price of a single; from Monday a single (bought on the bus) will be £17.60 whereas a return (booked 2 days in advance) will be £18. Quite a saving!

I must say I'm pleased. Even saving a little bit on that long journey is a bonus. There's also something psychological about the journey falling to under 4 hours - it somehow makes the town SEEM that little bit less isolated.

I'm looking forward to being able to get back to Glasgow for 10.15am - and work for 10.30am - without having to fly on the wee plane!

West Coast Motors confirmed the new service is being run with three NEW and LARGER coaches with onboard toilet facilities. Two buses from the existing fleet will be used to take the numbers up to five but two more new coaches will be added.

I wonder how big the new coaches are? Anyone know?

Managed to get a few pictures of the new buses that will be covering the Campbeltown to Glasgow route as part of the five time daily return timetable now in operation. Absolutely stunning 59 seater coaches with on board toilet facilities.

Kintyre Forum News wrote:West Coast Motors confirmed the new service is being run with three NEW and LARGER coaches with onboard toilet facilities. Two buses from the existing fleet will be used to take the numbers up to five but two more new coaches will be added.

I wonder how big the new coaches are? Anyone know?

Nice pics, they are 59 seats + toilet as 'Kintyre Forum' states, but if you mean how physically big its 14metres long, which is 2 metres longer than the current coaches, which is about 6 and a half feet in the old money. Width & Height is similar to present coaches.

Will be nice to see some nice new shiny buses on the road instead of the tired older ones