Elgin train station
You can reach 28 stations directly from Elgin on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Forres, with 35 trains a day.
Address: Station Road, Elgin, IV30 1QJ
Elgin is the nearest station for postcodes in IV30, IV31, IV32. Check your own postcode.
- 28 direct destinations
- 1,165th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 50 parking spaces
- 6 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Elgin
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forres | 35 | 35 | 12 |
| Inverness | 35 | 35 | 12 |
| Inverness Airport | 35 | 35 | 12 |
| Nairn | 35 | 35 | 12 |
| Aberdeen | 22 | 22 | 10 |
| Dyce | 22 | 22 | 10 |
| Huntly | 22 | 22 | 10 |
| Inverurie | 22 | 22 | 10 |
| Insch | 22 | 22 | 10 |
| Keith | 22 | 22 | 10 |
| Kintore | 21 | 21 | 10 |
| Arbroath | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Dundee | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Montrose | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Carnoustie | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Stonehaven | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Broughty Ferry | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Cupar | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Edinburgh Waverley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Glasgow Queen Street | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Haymarket | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Inverkeithing | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Laurencekirk | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Leuchars | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Monifieth | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Portlethen | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Perth | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Stirling | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Lines serving Elgin
Elgin is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Elgin station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Elgin station on 8 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.
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 Elgin station is
295,372 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,165th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Elgin and Inverness than any other pair: 79,064 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.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Elgin loses 1 destination including Inverkeithing.
Nearest other stations
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Elgin, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Linksfield · 1.7 miles
- Longmorn · 2.6 miles
- Calcots · 2.6 miles
- Mosstowie · 3.0 miles
- Lhanbryde · 3.3 miles
- Greens of Drainie · 3.8 miles
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Facilities at Elgin station
Elgin is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 07:00 to 17:00 · Friday: 07:00 to 18:45 · Saturday: 06:45 to 16:15 · Sunday: 10:25 to 17:00
Toilets
Parking at Elgin station
- Station Car Park 50 spaces, 2 accessible
£2.00 a day
Cycle parking: 19 spaces (sheltered, lockers).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Elgin station
Elgin station is in Moray, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Elgin Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Elgin 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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