Tours from Glasgow · Run by Timberbush Tours
Glencoe · Fort William · Glenfinnan Viaduct
Glencoe and the Glenfinnan Viaduct from Glasgow, with Loch Lomond on the way home.
From Glasgow the road north runs up the side of Loch Lomond and over Rannoch Moor, which makes this one of the best-looking drives of any day tour. After a break at Tyndrum you stop in Glencoe for photographs, have lunch in Fort William and then head to Glenfinnan, with time to see the viaduct the Hogwarts Express crosses in the films and the monument on Loch Shiel. On the way back you pass Neptune's Staircase, the flight of locks on the Caledonian Canal, and stop at Tarbet on Loch Lomond. It runs every day from April to October and on four days a week in winter.
The places it stops at, in order. Routes can change with the weather and the traffic.
The day
Where it starts
19 Killermont Street, Glasgow G2 3NX
Leaves at 7.30am
A break
A photo stop
A deep Highland glen walled in by the Three Sisters and the Aonach Eagach, cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, with a visitor centre off the A82.
More about Glencoe
Lunch
The town under Ben Nevis at the head of Loch Linnhe, where the West Highland Way ends and the Jacobite leaves.
More about Fort William
A stop · about 1 hour
A curve of 21 concrete arches, 380 metres long, carrying the West Highland Line over the River Finnan since 1901.
Jacobite steam train in summer, not guaranteed; the tour does not board the train
More about Glenfinnan Viaduct and Glenfinnan MonumentSeen from the coach
A break
The village on the narrow neck between Loch Lomond and Loch Long, below the Arrochar Alps, where Vikings dragged their boats.
More about Tarbet, Loch LomondWhere it ends
Back at about 7.15pm
Photographs: Timberbush Tours
19 Killermont Street, outside the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, opposite Buchanan Bus Station
19 Killermont Street, Glasgow G2 3NX
Leaves at 7.30am. Opens 15 minutes before departure and closes 5 minutes before.
Children aged 4 to 16 pay less; their price shows when you book.
Run by
Timberbush Tours has been taking visitors round Scotland since 1998. June and Gary Voy, a husband and wife team, started it with a single coach, and it now runs its own fleet, with driver-guides who have been with the company for years. Their tours leave every day from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness, and from Portree on Skye, and you book with them directly.
Timberbush Tours answer them, and you book with them directly.
7.30am to 7.15pm from Glasgow, from £60 an adult.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before a day tour, and up to 7 days before a tour of several days, by Timberbush’s own terms.
Booked with Timberbush Tours, or call them on +44 (0)131 226 6066
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About 13 hours on the road in allUp to 37 on a coach
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Run by Timberbush Tours
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