The town is situated at the mouth of the River Clyde in the picturesque area of Inverclyde. Greenock has easy transport routes from main population centres and airports.
By train
From Ayr or the "Prestwick-Airport" Station, take the train to "Paisley-Gilmour Street", and change to platform 2 for the "Gourock" or "Wemyss Bay" Train. You can then alight at either "Bogston", "Cartsdyke", "Greenock-Central", Greenock-West", or "Fort Matilda" Gourock Train or "Whinhill", "Drumfrochar", or "Branchton" Wemyss Bay train. Obviously, "Greenock-Central" is the nearest to the centre of the town itself.
From Glasgow Central train station, simply take the "Gourock" train and alight at either "Greenock-Central" or "Greenock-West". Journey time between 25 minutes-45 minutes.
From Glasgow International Airport, take the bus to "Paisley-Gilmour Street" and take the train to "Gourock" alighting at either "Greenock-Central" or "Greenock-West".
By car
From Glasgow/Glasgow Airport take the M8 becomes A8 heading West.
From Ayr/Prestwick Airport take the A78 heading North.
By bus
From Glasgow, take the 901 Citylink bus for Gourock McInroy's Point or Greenock town centre - both are hourly, Mon-Sat. There are also ocassional peak services numbered 906 which extend to Largs but also travel via Greenock.
Also, from Glasgow, take the 901 McGill's bus service to Largs which travels via Greenock - again, hourly, Mon-Sat - but do NOT serve Glasgow Airport. Journey time is around 1 hour.
From Ayr, take the 585 "Greenock" Stagecoach bus - be warned though, it's half hourly or every 20mins during the summer frequency and takes around 2 hours to complete.
From Largs, you can also take the 585 or jump on a McGill's 901/576/or 577 service which all either terminate or travel through Greenock. Journey time is no longer than 30-45 mins.
From Clydebank, take a Scottish Travel number 22 bus which operate every half hour and take no longer than 45 minutes to get to Greenock.
From Port Glasgow and Gourock, almost every bus heading towards greenock terminates there, so passengers can enjoy frequencies on "main" routes into town of every 5 minutes or more.