Anderston
Anderston is an area within inner Glasgow, Scotland.
Anderston is an area within inner Glasgow, Scotland. It is on the north bank of the River Clyde and forms the south western edge of the city centre. Established as a village of handloom weavers in the early 18th century, Anderston was an independent burgh of barony from 1824 until it was incorporated into the City of Glasgow in 1846.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Anderston
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 10 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 45 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 57 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Anderston46 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £4.5–6
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Anderston57 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £6–9
- Belfast → Anderston175 km · quickest by road, 14h 6m · £70–95
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Anderston
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Anderston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere's a range of long-stay parks off-site, with transfer minibuses.
- Get in(The airport is in "Local" zone, so the "City" zone fare isn't enough.) McGill's Bus 757 trundles every 30 min to Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, which has very frequent trains to Glasgow Central, and outbound to Gourock (for Dunoon ferry), Wemyss Bay (for Bute ferry), Ardrossan (for Arran ferry) and Ayr.
- Get inThe fare is the same by any route: in 2024 a day trip is £15 and an open return is £20.
- Get inFor a day trip, park up at one of the outlying railway stations, if you can find a space among all the commuter vehicles.
- Get inThe crossing takes 2 hr 30 min, with almost a dozen car ferries a day.
From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 0163 km
- 0271 km
- 0398 km
- 04166 km
- 05177 km
If you know how people move in Anderston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.