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4th November 1977
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ELVIN HALL, Glasgow, where the Scottish Motor Show iens next Friday, is easy to get to by bus, coach and train.

It is served by Greater Glaswg PTE bus routes Nos. 1, 6, 15, 16, 32, 42, 43, 44, 57, 3, and 64. Services No. 43 id No. 44 connect with lasgow Central Station iere British Rail trains connect ith all parts of Scotland, 'gland, Northern Ireland and wth Wales.

Air travellers from the Conrnent and the UK are similarly )1I served.

Flights arrive from London eathrow), Berlin and Dussel41 by British Airways and im London (Gatwick), Guerny, Jersey and Newcastle by itish Caledonian. They land at Glasgow's Abbotsinch Airport which is served by a Western SMT coach service to Anderston Cross bus station.

From Anderston Cross, Greater Glasgow PTE bus No. 64 connects to Kelvin Hall.

Passengers arriving from Calgary, Edmonton, Gander; Halifax, Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg and New York in North America arrive at Prestwick Airport, Ayrshire, and are similarly served by SMT coach. Long-distance coaches are "tailable for passengers who ish to travel by road and who D not like driving. Coaches om London to Buchanan treet bus station connect at lctoria coach station with the ational Express network with )ach connections for the puth, South East and West of 'gland as well as to certain ties in Europe.

Scottish Bus Group cornmy Western SMT's Glasgow)ndon service operates )ecially designed Alexander -type bodied coaches equipKI with carpets, reclining seats ld toilets. The coaches are ivally based on SeddonVolvo Bristol RE chassis.

Coach services also operate rect to Glasgow from other wns in England and Scotland though winter services are mewhat restricted.

ast value

Coaches represent by far the est value for money for travelrs with time to spare. The igle fare from London to Glassw is a mere £7 against £15 r a second-class rail fare and lady £30 for the air fare.

Unfortunately time means oney. A flight to Glasgow from le of London's airports takes 'proximately one hour and ten mutes, although this advange is lessened by the iographical location of the -mina! at London and Glasgow d allowance has to be made airport city centre travel as II as for interchange time.

Rail travel offers city centre to ty centre travel with the Inimum of fuss, and with the stest trains covering the Jrney from Glasgow to Lonin in only five hours the arguent for inter-city flying is isened.

Coaches, however, do take iger, but provide the most mprehensive service. Two indon-Glasgow services are ailable at Scottish Motor low time — one leaves London ily at 0930 and travels up via e M1 and M6 arriving at ichanan bus station at 18.30. Le slow coach leaves London at Golders Green, North Finchley, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Stanford, Grantham, Newark, Retford, Doncaster, Wetherby, Boroughbridge, Catterick, Scotch Corner, Bowes, Brough, Appieby, Temple Sowerby, Penrith, Carlisle, Lockerbie, Beattock, Crawford Abbington, Milbank, Lesmahagow, and Hamilton. It arrives at Buchanan Street at 0800 hours — in time for a hearty breakfast!

These are the alternative forms of public transport. For those who drive to Glasgow Kelvin Hall is at the west end of Argyle Street, about 10 minutes by car from the city centre.

Because of the absence of formal car parks nearby, parking is allowed in a number of streets in and around the Kelvin Hall, and at least one street is usually reserved for stallholders.

Parking is also normally permitted in the grounds of the Art Galleries, immediately across the road from the Kelvin Hall.

In the central area of Glasgow there are about 11,000 public parking spaces, in offstreet car parks -a number of which are multi-storey — or at

street parking meters.

The meters, of course, a strictly for short-term parkin but off-street car parks usual operate round-the-clock and ti charges vary with length of sta Daytime parking in the cc tral area of Glasgow can be problem, especially at the ter porary off-street car parks. The quickly fill up during the mor ing rush and motorists have get into town early to be sure a space.

The dearer multi-storey ci parks don't fill up so quickly ar at some of them space is ava able throughout the day.


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