Alanko
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Glasgow to carstairs junction once it gets past carstairs though the scenery is brilliant
i used to save money on my Edinburgh to Glasgow commute by jumping on a Voyager in Waverley that went via Carstairs and Motherwell. Agreed that the scenery is pleasant!
I made a point of trying out all the various means of getting from Edinburgh to Glasgow while I was commuting. The Edinburgh - Helensburgh Central train was probably the most grim. It traverses the moonscape of North Lanarkshire before slowly making its way through bits of east Glasgow that look like they fell out The Sweeney. Bonus points for the sprawling traveller's site adjacent to the line at Carntyne and the various Irish tricolours and Union Jacks fluttering over unkempt back gardens. The journey itself is maddeningly slow as it stops at so many small stations on the way into Glasgow; some of them feel like you would be able to see one station from the next due to the frequency of stops and lack of speed built up between them.