Official Scottish Citylink account. Here to help every day 9am-6pm, and provide service updates 24 hours a day.
STA Public Transport Operator Of The Year 2024
#COMPETITION
!! For your chance to
#WIN
a pair of Bruno Mars tickets + travel to the event at Glasgow Green on the 10th of July, all you have to do is comment 'WIN' below and RT this post!! ENTER NOW!
#Comp
#WIN
*conditions apply-
We can't help sharing images of our new 900 coaches. Check out the interior - USB and wireless chargers at every seat, extra legroom, comfortable seats and reading lights. Who says coaches aren't cool!
#GoCoach
#SelectYourDeck
❗️As a mark of respect, our drivers and staff will be observing the national minute's silence at 11am today to pay tribute to all the transport workers from across the UK who've sadly lost their lives to Covid-19.
Good night everyone, we are unable to staff our Twitter feed or our call centre this evening to allow our team some well earned rest. Both Twitter feed and our Call Centre will reopen at 7am tomorrow to help with your journey. Have a good evening.
We can't believe how good our
@Plaxtoncoach
Panorama looks with the '6 cities' livery 😍
Travel in style to; Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen or Inverness - up to every 60 minutes. It's a no-brainer 🤷♀️
#PlanAhead
UPDATE - We're planning to run a full Citylink and Scottish megabus service from 0400 tomorrow, currently. This is dependent on the overnight weather conditions and will be updated if things change. The only cancellation at this time is the 0555 G92 - Abe to Edi
#Citylinkupdates
Make 2023 the year you explore Scotland by coach and discover the magic of the west coast, from Loch Lomond to Loch Ness:
📸
@VisitScotland
| Paul Tomkins
Jings! An incredible £419,500 was raised last night
@OWBIGBucket
Glasgow auction for
@GCH_Charity
. To top the evening off, we left
@KelvingroveArt
with a little friend. Meet Island Wullie, the newest addition to the Citylink team!
#OWBBT
Our Operations Director
@CitylinkPete
is out and about with Robert Andrew, Regional Director helping to promote
@megabusuk
brand NEW coaches for the M11 service at today’s Aberdeen Roadshow, the coaches look amazing (not as good as ours😜)!
Yipee! It's
#ThrowbackThursday
time 😍 With all the excitement over our new vehicles, it's nice to appreciate our older ones too. Check out these 900 coaches seen here at the Parks of Hamilton depot in 2003! If you could design your own coach, what's one feature you'd love?
We held a photoshoot today at
@RoslinPS
taking shots of their winning
@OWBIGBucket
coach design! Here's proud P7 Eva and her family with her design. We think it looks amazing, well done, Eva and everyone at Roslin Primary School!
#OWBBT
"In what was quite often perceived as a male dominated industry, I have become a respected leader across our business."
#InternationalWomensDay
is the perfect day to introduce our Operations Director, Simone Smith! 💪
Did you hear the good news?
We've got some brand-new coaches 🙌🏻 🚌 You'll find these belters running on our Glasgow to Skye and Campbeltown routes.
#GoCoach
#NewVehicles
Planning a cycling adventure in the Highlands? As part of our partnership with
@HITRANS_RTP
, bike socks will now be available on six of our routes; plus, you can pre-book your bike onboard 🚲 More info here:
Our
@YoungScot
coach is ready to go! Here's a shot of the finished vinyl wrap. We'll be on the road soon, keep an eye out for us on our tour of Scotland!
#YOYP2018
#YSAwards
We're at The Centre Livingston today from 10am till 2 pm, come say hello and take a look at our BRAND-NEW 902 coaches 🚌! We'll also be handing out branded goodies! Pop along for a sneak-peak
#go2
We're sharing some good news. We've only gone and won 'Best Bus Service' at the
@TransportTimes
Scottish Transport Awards. 🥇
Congrats to all shortlisted entrants and winners. Hopefully, we'll all be able to celebrate together next year.
#STAS2020
Each one of our new 900 coaches started out just like this. So this week we're throwing back to
@Plaxtoncoach
@ADLbus
to show you the early pre-glam stage of the build process! Really shows how much hard work goes into making each vehicle 🛠️
#ThrowbackThursday
Our new 900 coaches are all tucked up and ready for an early morning start. If you’re travelling with us tomorrow, drop us a note with some feedback. 🤔
Hold on to your hats. This is a good one 🙌 Our new 900 timetables will run at the same times every day! But! That's not all - from November 7th, you can use your NEC cards all day, every day 🚌
#GoCoach
#StayConnected
📸 Stefan Doon
UPDATE - We are planning to operate a full service for the rest of the day on all of our routes, including our cross border services to/from London. We are planning to operate full service tomorrow. Thanks very much for all of your understanding.
#megabusupdates
#citylinkupdates
UPDATE - Most importantly we would like to thank our front line teams for their effort over the past few days; including our drivers, control and customer service teams. We really appreciate your tweets of examples of our staff going above and beyond over the past 72 hours
#proud
A dynamic duo if we've ever seen one,
@on_lothianbuses
! All you needed back in 2001 to travel to and see the best of Edinburgh and little has changed in 2019 🙌 Except maybe the background.. can you guess where this week's
#ThrowbackThursday
was taken?
Last Friday we held a photoshoot
@EDI_Airport
to relaunch AIR and showcase our brand new coaches. Helping to raise awareness was Gordon Dewar, Chief Executive of Edinburgh Airport, Liz Logan, Coaching Manager
@westcoastbuses
and our very own Operations Director
@CitylinkPete
Our Aberdeen 24hr services are rolling into 2023 and staying for good ✔️
No need to worry about the last coach home ... All year, we'll be running our 24hr service between Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dundee, Perth, AND Stirling!! 🚌
#GoCoach
#Glasgow
#Aberdeen
#TravelTuesday
You asked for it so we've delivered it. You can now book return journeys between Glasgow and Edinburgh with the return ticket valid for up to one month.
Travel any time of day for £30, or with off-peak travel it's just £18.40.
We've got some amazing shopping destinations in Scotland,
@VisitScotland
have listed their top 8 here: check it out, what 's your favourite? Glasgow is definitely one of ours!
Due to ongoing weather conditions, all M9, M10, M8, M92, M91 and M90 services are currently suspended until at least 16:00 when a further review of road conditions will be made.
Our coaches are now displaying handy window stickers to help with onboard social distancing. Please follow our guidelines:
✅ Sit in a window seat
✅ One person per double seat, unless you're with a member of your household
✅ Keep an empty rown in front and behind you
Thank you.
The
@OWBIGBucket
trail continues, there's only 9 days left, so get searching for the sculptures all over Scotland We saw this one on George Street, Edinburgh. Where have you spotted them? Share your favourite pics with us!
A massive shout out to all our excellent drivers for all their hard work and dedication throughout the past year 👏🏻 We couldn't do it without you!
Here are just a few of our amazing guys and gals 🤩
#ThankYouDrivers
⚠️SERVICE UPDATE: Due to the red weather warning, all M9, M92 and M8 services will not operate from 18:00 tonight. We will provide further updates tomorrow morning. Please note, other services are subject to delay or cancellation. Sorry for any inconvenience.
#CitylinkUpdates
It's all about GOLD for this week's
#ThrowbackThursday
. Who can remember what year we first launched our gold and burgundy
@Plaxtoncoach
linking Glasgow with Aberdeen and Inverness?
#GoodAsGold
School’s almost out for the summer, time to take your weans on the trail! There’s hundreds of
@OWBIGBucket
sculptures to visit in each city, all painted by schools and community groups. This one is outside our travel centre in Buchanan Bus Station created by
@APPrimary
#OWBBT
If you’re a regular visitor to Edinburgh Bus Station, you’ll know this familiar friendly face.
Meet Declan, one of our stance controllers based in Edinburgh. He’s always on hand to help 😊 Next time you pop in, don’t forget to say hello.
#MeetTheTeam
Check out this retro
#ThrowbackThursday
🚌The 500 service to Buchanan Bus Station and Anderston Bus Station! Now, that's going way back.
Do you know the year this coach was made?
Today we launched our 20%
@YoungScot
discount with a photoshoot at The Kelpies. If you have a Young Scot card you'll recieve 20% off all Citylink journeys!
#YOYP2018
#YSDiscounts
Look out for our Christmas competition coming soon! Here's a sneak preview of our Christmas coach before it heads out on the road. Keep your eyes peeled for the chance to win a Christmas treat!
Today we had a photoshoot to launch contactless payments across our fleet. Pictured is the Minister for Transport and the Islands Humza Yousaf and Peter Knight, Operations Director at Citylink. Info here-
Meet driver Kevan Docherty, he's driven coaches within our network for over 5 years! He's our
@YoungScot
tour bus driver and works on a whole host of events for us. If you spot him on one of our coaches, don't forget to say hello!
#YSA
#YOYP2018
‘All we want for Christmas is’… 10,000+ followers 🎅🎁 Can you help? RT and follow
@ScotCitylink
before the 31st December and one lucky follower will WIN a brand new pair of Apple AirPods 😎🎧
#CitylinkChristmas
A massive thank you to all our Citylink drivers keeping the country moving during this crisis, and we can’t forget about all the guys behind the scenes - you know who you all are! ❤️🚌
#ThankYouCoachWorkers
DUE TO A RED WEATHER WARNING ISSUED BY THE MET OFFICCE SERVICES BETWEEN ABERDEEN AND DUNDEE AND DUNDEE AND ABERDEEN HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. WE WILL UPDATE FURTHER ONCE WE HAVE MORE INFORMATION
We hope you've had a fabulous weekend🎉! We would like to thank our drivers, especially our 900 drivers for keeping the network running all day, everyday. Our free travel maybe over tonight but we have some great offers coming up soon, stay tuned😊!
We had a photo shoot
@EDI_Airport
with our Operations Director
@CitylinkPete
& Gordon Dewar, Chief Executive at
@EDI_Airport
to promote our new 909 service which offers a direct link between Stirling and the airport.
We've been running our 900 service for over 30 years with the help of one of our partners, Parks of Hamilton 🤝 Who remembers our old 900
@Plaxtoncoach
?
#ThrowbackThursday
We're the Official Discovery Partner for
@OWBIGBucket
trail this year! Local primary schools in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness will be decorating our mini sculptures and you'll soon be able to see them in a bus station near you!
At 11am on
#RemembranceDay
where safe to do so, your driver may stop their vehicle to observe the national two minutes silence that will be held as a mark of respect to those killed or injured in the defence of their country.
#LestWeForget
#ArmisticeDay
#RemembranceDay
⚠️SERVICE UPDATE: We are happy to communicate that the A9 and M90 have been re-opened, and services will restart shortly.
Services will be subject to delay.
#citylinkupdates
Latest UPDATE -
900 - every 30 minutes
904 - Normal Service
AIR - Normal Service
909 - No Service
923,G10,G92,M92,M90,M91,M9,M8,G9 - Subject to cancellation and alteration due to weather conditions on A9/M80.
926,976,914,915,916 - Normal Service
919,917,961 - Normal Service
This week we're throwing back to the 900 service 20 years ago, it's clear we've always offered next level comfort 😉 We hope you won't want to get off our new coaches either!
#ThrowbackThursday
Look who hopped on board last night. Coronation Street’s Hayley Cropper 🤩 Here’s our driver, Gaynor and the great Julie Hesmondhalgh!
#CoronationStreet
❗️Our drivers will continue to remind people that they need to wear a face covering, but we'd like to get the message across that this is about protecting everyone else in our communities, not just yourself. Please do the right thing and cover up for your full journey. Thank you.
At 11am today, where safe to do so, your driver may stop their vehicle to observe the national
#TwoMinuteSilence
that will be held as a mark of respect to those killed or injured in the defence of their country.
#ArmisticeDay
We had some visitors at Buchanan Bus Station last week! Here's our Operations Director
@CitylinkPete
posing with Oor Wullie. We've partnered up with
@OWBIGBucket
to support the first ever nationwide Art Trail helping to raise vital funds for Scotland's Children's Hospital.
#OWBBT
Concession passengers will no longer have to wait for a ticket. From 20th February, we're going paper free! You'll no longer be issued a paper ticket when you scan your concession card. All you have to do is scan your card to travel 🪪 🚌
#ConcessionCards
#Paperfree
We’re delighted to let you all know that our Glasgow & Edinburgh travel centres are finally back open to the public 🥳 You might notice a little change in Glasgow, we’ve had a fancy new makeover 😋
Our team are available to help everyday from 9am-5pm 🚌
#ReadyWhenYouAre
This photograph brings us right back! We're loving this retro shot of our old 963 service at Dundee Bus Station back in 2002. Are you a fan of our older coach designs?
#ThrowbackThursday
⚠️ SERVICE UPDATE: All northbound services from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness are currently suspended due to the poor road conditions caused by adverse weather conditions.
#CitylinkUpdates
*20% OFF travel to Edinburgh from anywhere across our Scottish Network* from the 12–15 July! Track down the Oor Wullie sculptures in the capital. Download the
@OWBIGBucket
app to receive a discount code and enter it online. Book here-
WOW! An amazing 7000 free seats have now been reserved for the 900 service this weekend 🙌 If you weren't lucky enough to secure a free seat with us this weekend, watch this space for more amazing deals for the rest of the year ✨
M9 Update: Services from Dundee to Aberdeen and Aberdeen to Dundee are still suspended while the relevant authorities review this. We hope to resume services to Aberdeen once this review has been completed. Any updates will be posted on our Twitter page.
#CitylinkUpdates
We would like to say a huge congratulations to
@westcoastbuses
driver, Drew Bordon for doing his bit for charity and raising money for
@ClydeCashForKids
🎉 Wouldn't it be great if he could wear these fancy waistcoats everyday 😄