Scottish Citylink
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| Slogan | "Citylinking... smart thinking!" "green thinking, citylinking" |
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| Parent |
ComfortDelGro 65% Stagecoach 35% |
| Founded | March 1985 |
| Headquarters | Glasgow |
| Service area | Scotland |
| Service type | Long distance coach services |
| Routes | 19 |
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Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow Stirling |
| Operator |
Bruce's Coaches D&E Coaches Shiel Buses Stagecoach East Stagecoach Highlands Stagecoach West West Coast Motors |
| Website |
www.citylink.co.uk www.citylinkgold.co.uk |
Scottish Citylink is a long distance express coach operator in Scotland and Ireland (where it operates as Irish Citylink) and England (where it operates as Stansted Citylink). The company was formed as a subsidiary of Scottish Transport Group in March 1985. Since September 2005 it has been operated as a 65/35 joint venture between ComfortDelGro and Stagecoach.
Scottish Citylink operates an extensive network of long distance express services within Scotland, operating 19 routes linking the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Stirling and Inverness, as well as linking some rural Highland communities to the main urban areas of Scotland. Services also operate to Northern Ireland via the ferry link between Stranraer and Belfast, and there are seasonal workings to Blackpool. In all, over 200 destinations are served by Scottish Citylink within Scotland, using about 90 coaches provided by operators local to the 'destination' area, carrying over three million passengers annually.
Despite the extent of Citylink's operations in Scotland, there are notable geographical regions, including large urban areas, that have little to no connections with the network. These tend to be areas served by subsidiaries of Stagecoach, which operate their own comprehensive Stagecoach Express network, to destinations such as Ayrshire (Kilmarnock, Ayr and Irvine), Fife (Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline and St Andrews), Dumfries & Galloway, Aberdeenshire and Moray. An exception is the Scottish Borders, which is covered by FirstGroup, though they have no regular express service.
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