Pollokshaws
Pollokshaws is an area on the South side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
Pollokshaws is an area on the South side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is bordered by the residential neighbourhoods of Auldhouse to the east, Eastwood and Hillpark to the south and Shawlands to the north, with the Glasgow South Western Line railway and the open lands of Pollok Country Park to the west. The White Cart Water flows through the area.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Pollokshaws
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 10 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 40 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 59 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Pollokshaws41 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £4–6
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Pollokshaws60 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £6–8
- Belfast → Pollokshaws171 km · quickest by road, 14h 5m · £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 Pollokshaws
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 Pollokshaws. 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.
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Next door to Pollokshaws
Pollokshaws is 5 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.