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Information updates for staff and agents Linkline Issue No 43/01 15 April 2010 In this issue… 1. Coach Guide 43 - Summary of Changes 2. Scottish Cup Final

2. Coach Guide 43 - Summary of Changes

Coach Guide 43, which runs from 24 May until 3rd October 2010 is currently available online @ http://www.citylink.co.uk/coachguide.php

To help you get to grips with the new information we have included a helpful summary of changes below. Services that are not mentioned will remain unchanged.

Service 900 - links via Tyndrum linking Glasgow and Oban A largely unchanged timetable except that during the period of the Service 917 Inverness - Portree Edinburgh Festival (30 July-5 September) our night services An additional journey will again be provided to offer 3 journeys in departing Edinburgh and Glasgow at 0130 and 0300 will operate each direction between Inverness and Portree. Note revised times Daily. 973 - Oban Service 909 Edinburgh - Stirling Uni - Dunblane Same level of service with 2 journeys each way each day offering The 0905 Edinburgh to Stirling University journey on Saturdays is connections at Tyndrum to/from Fort William. Times are unchanged withdrawn. However Services 913 and 978 offer additional journey from Summer 2009 to offer good Day Return opportunities along opportunities between Edinburgh-Grangemouth-Stirling leaving the route. Edinburgh at 0800 and 0900. 975 Oban-Tyndrum Service 913 Edinburgh - Fort William Summer seasonal service re-introduced with 1 departure per day Summer seasonal service 0900 Edinburgh-Fort William has now offering connections at Tyndrum to/from services operating been re-routed to serve Grangemouth and Killin offering between Glasgow and Fort William connections at Tyndrum for Oban and at Fort William for Kyle of 918 Oban - Fort William Lochalsh and Isle of Skye - no change from the Summer 2009 This service continues to be operated by West Coast Motors. service provision Connects at Fort William with services to/from Inverness and also Service 914 Glasgow - Fort William Skye. Additional summer only journeys re-introduced to give a 2-hourly 919 Fort William - Inverness frequency northbound and an almost 2-hourly southbound The current Monday to Saturday winter timetable will operate every frequency. Last departure Glasgow-Fort William remains at 1800 to day give connections with the Corran Ferry. Glasgow - Loch Lomondside Service 915/916 Glasgow - Skye As a result of the increased service levels between Glasgow and Fort Similar level of service as in Summer 2009 including the additional William/Oban we are once again able to offer an almost hourly connecting journey for Skye via Fort William leaving Glasgow at service between Glasgow and the Loch Lomond National Park 1300. This will operate DAILY during the summer school holiday between 0700 and 1800 daily. period - 3 July to 15 August] 926 Glasgow - Campbeltown Service 978 Edinburgh - Oban Timetable remains unchanged with 3 return journeys daily in both This new service introduced in Summer 2009 is again operating directions. every day between Edinburgh and Oban and has now been re-routed to serve Grangemouth and Killin en route. Connections are once M10/G10 Glasgow - Inverness again available at Tyndrum for Fort William Service M10 is withdrawn and replaced by Service G10 which will Service 976/977 Glasgow - Oban operate non stop between Glasgow and Aviemore in 2hrs 40 mins. The service will offer 3 departures every day from either end - early As with the Glasgow-Fort William corridor there is an increase in the morning, lunchtime and late afternoon overall number of journeys by providing one additional direct daily journey [1000 Glasgow-Oban/1610 Oban-Glasgow] and additional M8 Glasgow - Dundee - Blackpool Minor timetable changes to peak time journeys in and out of An additional service is once again being provided from Glasgow to Glasgow to improve reliability due to road works Blackpool Friday, Saturday and Monday from 26 June to 28 August - M9 Glasgow - Service 621 with a departure of 1100 ex Glasgow and returning at 1800 from Blackpool this will allow us to offer a Day Return in The early morning departure beteen Dundee and Aberdeen will conjunction with our 0900 departure from Glasgow. Connecting depart 10 minutes earlier at 0610 to assist the reliability of the services are also available to/from Glasgow from many central belt arrival time of 0825 in Aberdeen. locations.

2. Scottish Cup Final

As part of our events programme we will be operating direct services to on Saturday 15th May for football fans travelling to the Scottish Cup Final .

We will be operating direct services from the following locations:

807 Inverness to Hampden 10:30 Arriving 14:30

Hampden to Inverness 17:30 Arriving 21:30

£25 Return

808 Dundee to Hampden 12:00 Arriving 14:30

Hampden to Dundee 17:30 Arriving 20:00

£24 Return

Services are available to book in STAR using “Glasgow, Hampden Park” as the destination.

The information is also available online under the Event section - http://www.citylink.co.uk/e_hampden.php