Edinburgh Waverley train station
Edinburgh Waverley is a major interchange: 238 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Haymarket, with 605 trains a day.
See Edinburgh Waverley on the map
Edinburgh Waverley is the nearest station for postcodes in EH1, EH2, EH3, EH8, EH7, EH9, EH6, EH5. Check your own postcode.
- 238 direct destinations
- 20th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 617 parking spaces
- 16 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Edinburgh Waverley
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haymarket | 605 | 587 | 303 |
| Inverkeithing | 201 | 197 | 94 |
| Edinburgh Gateway | 182 | 179 | 77 |
| Glasgow Queen Street | 177 | 174 | 117 |
| Edinburgh Park | 170 | 152 | 97 |
| Linlithgow | 147 | 177 | 107 |
| Polmont | 147 | 177 | 107 |
| Cowdenbeath | 143 | 142 | 30 |
| Dunfermline City | 143 | 142 | 30 |
| Dunfermline Queen Margaret | 143 | 142 | 30 |
| Rosyth | 143 | 142 | 30 |
| Dalmeny | 132 | 134 | 62 |
| North Queensferry | 132 | 134 | 62 |
| Glenrothes with Thornton | 118 | 109 | 32 |
| Newcastle | 118 | 112 | 97 |
| South Gyle | 117 | 113 | 62 |
| Cardenden | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Lochgelly | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Bathgate | 95 | 79 | 54 |
| Falkirk High | 95 | 104 | 66 |
| Livingston North | 95 | 79 | 54 |
| Uphall | 95 | 79 | 54 |
| York | 89 | 84 | 71 |
| Stirling | 87 | 85 | 52 |
| Airdrie | 82 | 70 | 50 |
| Drumgelloch | 82 | 70 | 50 |
| Coatbridge Sunnyside | 81 | 69 | 50 |
| Charing Cross (Glasgow) | 81 | 69 | 50 |
| High Street | 81 | 69 | 50 |
| Hyndland | 81 | 69 | 50 |
| Partick (Rail) | 81 | 69 | 50 |
| Glasgow Central | 80 | 80 | 15 |
| Falkirk Grahamston | 77 | 75 | 45 |
| Markinch | 76 | 75 | 22 |
| Shettleston | 76 | 68 | 50 |
| Bridge of Allan | 75 | 72 | 29 |
| Camelon | 75 | 73 | 43 |
| Dunblane | 75 | 72 | 30 |
| Larbert | 75 | 73 | 43 |
| Ladybank | 74 | 73 | 20 |
and 198 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Edinburgh Waverley
Edinburgh Waverley is on the East Coast Main Line, the Edinburgh and Glasgow Main Line and the East Coast (Northern) Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Edinburgh Waverley station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Edinburgh Waverley station on 19 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 4 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. All of them run whatever the traffic.
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 Edinburgh Waverley station is
22,755,164 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 20th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 1,583,408 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Queen Street than any other pair: 2,369,536 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: 186 stations instead of 238, a drop of about 22%. Saturday runs to 200.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Edinburgh Waverley gains 11 destinations including Weston-super-Mare, Basingstoke, Southampton Central, Brockenhurst, Oxford, Reading.
Nearest other stations
- Haymarket 1.2 miles
- Slateford 2.7 miles
- Brunstane 3.5 miles
- Kingsknowe 3.7 miles
- Newcraighall 4.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Edinburgh Waverley, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Scotland Street · 0.6 miles
- Edinburgh Princes Street · 0.7 miles
- Leith Walk · 0.8 miles
- St Leonards (Edinburgh) · 0.9 miles
- Abbeyhill · 1.0 miles
- Easter Road · 1.0 miles
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Facilities at Edinburgh Waverley station
Edinburgh Waverley is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:00 to 22:00 · Saturday: 06:00 to 22:00 · Sunday: 07:00 to 22:00
Toilets · Waiting room · WiFi
Parking at Edinburgh Waverley station
- New Street: Long Stay 617 spaces, 16 accessible
Cycle parking: 223 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 23 August 2026.
Getting to Edinburgh Waverley station
Edinburgh Waverley station is in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, and is run by Network Rail.
The nearest motorway junction is M8 J1 (Hermiston Gait), 5.5 miles south-west.
16 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Waverley Bridge.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Edinburgh Waverley 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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