Dunbar train station
You can reach 58 stations directly from Dunbar on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Edinburgh Waverley, with 44 trains a day.
Dunbar is the nearest station for postcodes in EH42, TD13. Check your own postcode.
- 58 direct destinations
- 962nd busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 76 parking spaces
- 4 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Dunbar
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh Waverley | 44 | 39 | 26 |
| Newcastle | 32 | 30 | 26 |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 30 | 27 | 24 |
| Alnmouth | 27 | 25 | 18 |
| Morpeth | 25 | 24 | 23 |
| Reston | 17 | 17 | 16 |
| Darlington | 15 | 14 | 10 |
| York | 15 | 14 | 10 |
| Durham | 14 | 13 | 9 |
| Musselburgh | 12 | 9 | 0 |
| Wallyford | 12 | 8 | 0 |
| Birmingham New Street | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Chesterfield | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Derby | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Leeds | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Sheffield | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Wakefield Westgate | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol Parkway | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Burton-on-Trent | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| Cheltenham Spa | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Doncaster | 5 | 12 | 7 |
| London King's Cross | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| Exeter St Davids | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Newton Abbot | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Plymouth | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Tamworth | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Taunton | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Totnes | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Newark Northgate | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Peterborough | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Bodmin Parkway | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Camborne | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Drem | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Hayle | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Liskeard | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Northallerton | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Par | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Penzance | 2 | 0 | 0 |
and 18 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Dunbar
Dunbar is on the East Coast Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Dunbar station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Dunbar station on 205 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 40 paths on the Wednesday, 18 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 52 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 20:00 to 21:00 on the Monday, with 4 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Dunbar station is
416,356 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 962nd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Dunbar and Edinburgh than any other pair: 244,310 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Sundays
Sunday is a different railway here: 26 stations instead of 58, a drop of about 55%. Saturday runs to 28.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Dunbar gains 15 destinations including Basingstoke, Southampton Central, Motherwell, Brockenhurst, Glasgow Central, Oxford.
Nearest other stations
- North Berwick 9.3 miles
- Drem 10.5 miles
- Longniddry 14.6 miles
- Reston 16.1 miles
- Prestonpans 18.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Dunbar, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Innerwick · 4.6 miles
Show closed stations on the map
Facilities at Dunbar station
Dunbar is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 21:15 · Saturday: 07:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 11:15 to 18:30
Toilets
Parking at Dunbar station
- Station Car Park 76 spaces, 6 accessible
£2.00 an hour, £4.00 a day, £16.00 a week - Short stay
£2.00 an hour
Cycle parking: 48 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Dunbar station
Dunbar station is in East Lothian, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Dunbar station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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