First Glasgow
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First Glasgow is the largest bus operator in Glasgow, Scotland. It is part of First Group, a major bus and train operator based in Aberdeen, Scotland. It runs 118 services in Greater Glasgow and has a fleet of over 1,000 buses.
It was one of the first bus operators to introduce an "overground", a colour-coded set of bus routes with route branding on the bus exteriors and timetables. The "overgound" routes are shown below:
- 5 (Blue Line) St Enoch Centre - Castlemilk Circular
- 9/9A (Claret Line) Linwood - City Centre - Drumchapel
- 12 (Orange Line) Rutherglen - City Centre - Auchinairn, Woodhill
- 16 (Dark Blue Line) Blairdardie - City Centre - East Kilbride
- 18/18A (Green Line) Summerston - City Centre - East Kilbride
- 20 (Dark Brown Line) Drumchapel - City Centre - East Kilbride
- 38/38A (Purple Line) Garthamlock / Gartcosh - City Centre - Woodfarm / Eastwood Toll Circular
- 40 (Yellow Line) Easterhouse - City Centre - Clydebank
- 41/41A Buchanan Bus Station - Easterhouse Circular
- 44/44A (Lime Green Line) Eaglesham/Newton Mearns - City Centre - Knightswood
- 45 (Magenta Line) (Pollok Centre Mon - Sat daytime only) - Kennishead - City Centre - Auchinairn, Woodhill
- 54/54A Summerston - City Centre - Penilee (- Braehead in early evening only)
- 56/57 Auchinairn, Woodhill - City Centre - Pollok - Darnley - Shawlands - City Centre - Charing Cross
- 61 Summerston - City Centre - Sandyhills
- 62 (Turquoise Line) Faifley - City Centre - Baillieston Streamline
- 66 (Red Line) Mountblow - City Centre - East Kilbride
- 75 (Beige Line) Castlemilk - City Centre - Milton
- 88 (Dark Green Line) Buchanan Bus Station - Kirkintilloch
- 201 (Salmon Line) Petersburn - Hairmyres Hospital
- 240 Buchanan Bus Station - Coltness
- 267 Buchanan Bus Station - Newmains
The above routes are the most frequent (every 10 minutes or less during the day service) but there are many other less frequent routes serving most other areas of Glasgow. Some services operate cross-area, Glasgow to Falkirk and Stirling for instance. These routes are operated by First Edinburgh, another company which is part of First Group.
First Glasgow has made (as of July 2006) a large number of cutbacks to its less profitable routes citing rising costs, particularly on night-services. These are leading to calls for re-regulation[citation needed]. Most notably, the 31 service, the sole service for the village of Carmunnock, was cut for evening and Sunday service and was only replaced at last minute by a new SPT supported service.
