Just off the queen street train station and right out the door your in the middle of the city…read more Loaded up with bars, restaurants, shopping and museums. The heart of the city center. Well it's kind of a mess right now as it's going through some major renovations. From what I've heard is things are being removed and replaced. Hopefully by the next time I've visited, it should be complete. The nice thing about this area, everything is all walking distance from each other. You can start off at a pub, move over to next. Get some shipping done, grab a meal and finish off at another pub. So many good restaurants that's all nearby. Both quick and easy places and sit down dining. Even loads of more upscale bars and restaurants. Just popping into different places and seeing what's there is really great. Major plus, with the train station ending there, it sure brings in loads of people. Daily and especially during the weekend.

If you are looking for a great convenient way to travel to different parts of Scotland. I highly…read morerecommend Glasgow Queen Street Station. The customer service is above par. The staff are always helpful and genuinely care about the passengers. Very Clean Station. The toilets down stairs are very clean and you feel very safe at this station. You have a few choices to buy food and coffee. It should be noted I am from the United States of America, served with the United States Marines all over the World and travelled all over the United States. I definitely know a great train station from all my travels and life experiences. You definitely won't be disappointed by utilizing this train station upon your travels across Scotland.

Currently on the ScotRail line from Waverly to Aberdeen. We are on the way to St. Andrews and…read moreheading back later today. Downloaded app, pre-purchased train and bus tickets. Found open seating and sat back to relax for the approximate 1 hour ride. Spoke with rail workers and was told we could actually board the 730am versus the 758 we had purchased. Train was ontime and everyone we have spoken with have been helpful and friendly. Seats are comfy (some with tables available. Clean train and bathrooms. Enjoy!

A relaxing trip from Queen Street Station Glasgow to Waverly Station Edinburgh with relaxing…read morecountryside views. The fare was quite reasonable - I splurged and booked first class since I had luggage. Online booking was very easy. When you arrive at the Station, ASK which platform your train will be on - I almost missed my Express train as I relied on the monitor and went to the lower platforms instead of staying at the upper platforms. A great way to travel between cities.

A train station is a train station and they don't tend to differ very much, although this one is…read moreideally located at the top of the toon and is often overlooked in favour of the big bustling ones in the centre. I pass through this station most days and the staff are always really friendly; one cheerful ticket lady ushered me through the barrier for free when I passed through on new year's eve, which was a nice wee festive treat. There's rarely a queue, the staff are lovely and it's ideally located for those holidaying in one of the nearby hotels or for locals heading to work or into town. An ideal wee station.

Charing Cross is definitely one of the better Scotrail train stations. Located, would you believe…read moreit, at Charing Cross, it's the perfect place to hop off the train for a night out on Sauchiehall or Bath Streets. It's also very close to the King's Theatre and the Mitchell Library. There are no barriers in opertion at this station, so it's quick in and out. The only obstacle is the stairs, but you can always take the lift if you're feeling lazy! Lines operate from Drumgelloch and Springburn to Milngavie, Helensburgh, and Balloch. There's also a wee WH Smith, which is quite expensive but they often have deals on chocolate and it's great for picking up your morning paper. Another added bonus is that when you're heading east you beat the rush for seats that follows at Queen Street. Brilliant!

This station is looking a lot better with the recent refurbishment. The ticket office has been…read morerelocated to the side and the central hall area is now completely open from one end to the other. The new canopy at the entrance looks pretty spiffy too. I do miss the weird sculpture thing that used to be in the middle of the floor that looked like some hydraulic pistons, I liked its quirkiness. But I guess it was a bit of a hazard to navigation in rush hour. This station is handy for the shops of Argyle St., the bottom of Buchanan St. and the St. Enoch shopping centre. It's only a short walk from Central Station too if you're travelling on the big trains. :) Trivia - The name St. Enoch is actually a corruption of St. Thenew, who was the mother of Glasgow's patron saint Kentigern (aka Mungo). There used to be a holy well and shrine dedicated to Thenew at the south end of the square, and later a church of the same name housed her tomb here.

This is a handy tube station which is really close to Buchanan Street and two railway stations,…read moreArgyle Street and Glasgow Central. The station itself is almost identical to all the other tube stations once you get down and has self service machines as well as a staffed kiosk. It's quite a popular tube station, and more so now St Enoch Shopping Centre has reopened with new shops.

Like most of the underground stations in Glasgow (with the exception of maybe Queen Street Low…read moreLevel), Argyle Street is rather grim and downtrodden, but it's in a fairly convenient location, in the central shopping district on Argyle Street (duh!), right next to the St Enoch centre and near the department stores. You walk in through a sort of tunnel, then there's a small ticket office which is usually staffed. Once you're ready, ticket in hand, you're directed down the escalator to ticket barriers - which were open and unmanned when I visited. Then you walk through a dark and dreary corridor and up another escalator to the smelly, dirty platform. Due to the amount of stairs and gates you have to go through to get this far, it's not particularly a station I would want to travel from if was in a rush or unaccompanied. There didn't seem to be any staff over on the platform which just screams dangerous to me. But it's not all bad, the man at the ticket office was fairly friendly (rare for ScotRail) and they have screens and automated announcements as to when your train is coming, but as it's ScotRail you must know that you may hear "we are sorry to announce that the x ScotRail service to x has been delayed/cancelled due to signalling problems/industrial action/some other ridiculous reason" far too often.

This train station is often forgotten by locals and the transport authority alike…read more Locals tend to bypass it without ever realising it's there. I know I've been through here, but I can't think when. It's not on my train-line, making it all the more baffling. As the others mentioned, there are no ticket barriers here, so like High Street and Charing Cross, you might get away with that couple of quid still in hand. Bonus! It's handy for getting to the Merchant City, and is a decent walking distance from both Central, Queen Street and High Street stations. Not bad.

No loos here. I think the location (beyond ticketing windows at main entrance) may be a temporary…read moreone so perhaps thats why. Plenty of cosy sofas and desk space for laptop and device charging. Live departures board. Helpful staff. Now for the free stuff which includes: wifi, hot drinks, cold drinks, crisps, biscuits, chocolates, sandwiches (including a vegetarian mix), bottled water and porridge (yes porridge!). Don't go mad with the freebies. They kept on feeding me from the moment my train left the station. Oopsie. I over did the food :)

One of the nicer tube stations, with reassuring CCTV and a bit of effort with some flowers to make…read moreit look a bit more appealing. It's close to the O2 Academy, and on gig night, this place is heaving. Otherwise, it's a pretty quiet stop, pretty small too. There's a bus stop right outside here with plenty of buses running down here like the 45 if you are heading to a gig and dont want to fork out more money for a tube ticket on top of your bus ticket. Plenty of parking space here too.

Bridge Street is just a Subway stop like any other, and as mentioned previously is the closest one…read moreto popular venues like the O2 Academy and The Citizens Theatre, there is however, another little place nearby that I've always found fascinating, but never quite had the courage to look into. The Cincinatti Club is a poker club just a few doors up from the station, and as far as I know the only poker club in Glasgow (bar those in casinos and pubs etc). I honestly have no idea what it's like inside, or what the setup is, but in my mind its permanently like a scene from Goodfellas.

Ah, the home of the legendary - really - Escalator Of Doom…read more Picture the scene. Someone (not me, honest) has had a few drinks and gets off here to visit some more local beverage establishments. You come up the stairs from the platforms, through the gate, and you see A HUGE ESCALATOR leading up to the main road. Do you a) be sensible and get the UP escalator in comfort and enjoy the ride? or b) Get your friend to go up, film you running up the down escalator while laughing uncontrollably and declaring that you're drunk? If the answer is b then you'll love this station, although they do discourage the whole running up the down side these days. YouTube proof does exist, but that remains a secret from this site. A handy station for West End Wanderings, close to several great pubs and eateries, and some excellent street art outside; mental purple squirrels, no less!

It's a tiny little sub-station, no where near as grand as the Buchanan Street or Govan stations,…read morebut it does its work. Located under the bridge off Great Western Road, it's got facilities for the 'park and ride' scheme, which, in this day of conservation is a truly excellent idea. It's got an intuitive layout; a main entrance under the bridge, an escalator entrance from the bridge itself, and, if you feel like walking down stairs rather than being carried down, you can use the side stairs. If you use the side stairs, you get a very good look at some excellent graffiti underneath. Don't get me wrong, this is GOOD graffiti. Artistic, and a few times I have seen a fashion shoot going on under those stairs. (Be wary of late at night though, I've seen other things happen under that bridge also, which aren't suitable for children). As a frequent flyer, I often get recognised by the staff, and they're friendly if you let them. They don't just have to be the person on the other side of the glass. In fact, I once brought a coffee to the guy who sells me my ticket every morning. Got a free ride for that one, but that wasn't my intent. He's just a nice guy. One of the cleaner stations of the Clockwork Orange. But, I will admit, since this place is a lot of staircases, it's a royal pain when the escalators aren't working.

St. George's Cross, like Charing X, is an area that suffered much at the construction of Glasgow's…read moremotorway network back in the 1960s; consequently this oft-neglected subway stop is isolated in its own little island of roads. If you don't know the area and are on foot it can be difficult to find your way into the station, as it nestles underneath the roads with a choice of 4 or 5 approach routes, none of which are terribly well signposted. St. George's X sits at the end of two of the old main routes into the city, Great Western Road and Maryhill Road, and it used to be a junction of some importance. There's a fine sculpture of the eponymous saint doing his thing in the open area to the north of the station, although he seems to have lost his dragon-slaying spear. Although there's not a great deal of interest around now, the station is still handy for anything around the Woodlands area, Charing X, and the pubs and shops at this end of Great Western Road. Trivia: The station is built on the site of a medieval coal mine that was worked by monks and extended to the west as far as the Kelvin. They stopped the mine from collapsing by leaving pillars of coal holding up the roof - a thought that is perhaps worth bearing in mind if you are considering purchasing property in the area? During the station reconstruction when the Subway was modernised in 1978, workers excavated 16 tons of the coal, which proved a handy side benefit of the job, as they were allowed to remove the coal 'for their personal use'.

It seems, at every corner, there is a leak of some sort in the city of glasgow. It doesn't help…read morethat it's been raining constantly ever since winter arrived. There has been a massive revamp of all the subway stations and this one is slow going compared to the rest of them. The second you step off the subway, you're catapulted in to the damp musty smell of the underground and as you walk up the stairs, you can actually see the water flowing down towards the tracks. Not sure how healthy this is, so I get out as soon as I possibly can as I've recently found that I'm quite allergic to mold. This subway station is perfectly placed in between the edge of the west end and the edge of city centre, so I get off here when I have to be anywhere in between the two.