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Milngavie
Town in Scotland

Milngavie

Milngavie is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland and a suburb of Glasgow.

Plan a trip to Milngavie→From Prestwick, South Ayrshire

It is on the Allander Water, at the northwestern edge of Greater Glasgow, and about ten kilometres from Glasgow city centre. It neighbours Bearsden.

Get in

Getting to Milngavie

By train: Trains run daily every 30 min from either Glasgow Central or Glasgow Queen Street, taking 25 min via Bearsden. Many of these run direct to Milngavie from Edinburgh or Motherwell, but along slow lines — it's quicker to take the fast train from Edinburgh to change at Queen Street, and from Motherwell to change at Central.

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    Milngavie railway station is central

    There is a staffed ticket office and machines, coffee kiosk, waiting rooms and toilets.

See

Worth seeing

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    Lennox Castle

    It was completed in 1841 as a plush residence, but in 1936 it became a hospital for people with learning difficulties.

Do

Things to do

Football: Glasgow Rangers women's team play at the Rangers training ground, south of town along A807 Auchenhowie Rd. They play in the Scottish Women's Premier League, their top tier. Celtic have a training facility at Lennoxtown but their women play in Hamilton. Rugby: West of Scotland FC call themselves simply a "football club" because when they were founded in 1865, the separation of codes was not complete.

Eat

Where to eat

Classic India, 5 Douglas St G62 6PA,. Daily 4:30-10PM. Good reviews for this trad Indian restaurant 100 yards west of the railway station. Others near the railway station include Garvie & Co and Chinese and fish & chips takeaways. Andiamo is a block east.

How locals move

Getting around Milngavie the local way

  • 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.
  • Get inFrom Europe the nearest ferry port is Newcastle upon Tyne, with overnight ferries from IJmuiden near Amsterdam.
  • Get inFerries from the Clyde islands and Argyll peninsula sail to ports "doon the water" at Gourock, Wemyss Bay and Ardrossan.
  • Get inIn the twentieth century paddle steamers ran between Glasgow and other Clyde ports, this continues with occasional sailings of the PS Waverley but these are only a realistic option for a day trip from Glasgow.

From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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