Central SMT

Buchanan Bus Station, at its opening in 1976, had forty-three sawtooth service platforms, not including the face-in coach service bays, facing west towards the terminal building.

Platforms 1 - 21 : Alexanders (Midland, Fife & Northern) & Highland, parallel to Cowcaddens Road, facing north

Platforms 22 - 27 : Originally unused, parallel to North Hanover Street, facing east. Subsequently these were adopted for use by Western Scottish express services. Eastern Scottish latterly swapped its stances (28 - 34) with Central whose 35 - 43 were, in turn, taken by Western. By summer 1985, stances 22 - 27 were being shared by Eastern and Midland Scottish services. (Western Scottish also operated their 04 AYR via Kilmarnock from platform 22).

Platforms 28 - 43 : Twenty-eight to thirty-four, Eastern Scottish. Thirty-five to forty-three Central, parallel to the new Killermont Street, facing south.