Kirknewton train station
You can reach 24 stations directly from Kirknewton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Curriehill, with 43 trains a day.
Kirknewton is the nearest station for postcodes in EH27, EH53. Check your own postcode.
- 24 direct destinations
- 1,911th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free in part
- 33 parking spaces
- 2 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Kirknewton
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curriehill | 43 | 42 | 12 |
| Edinburgh Waverley | 43 | 42 | 12 |
| Haymarket | 43 | 42 | 12 |
| Kingsknowe | 42 | 41 | 12 |
| Wester Hailes | 42 | 41 | 12 |
| Slateford | 41 | 41 | 12 |
| Glasgow Central | 40 | 40 | 12 |
| Livingston South | 39 | 39 | 12 |
| Shotts | 39 | 39 | 12 |
| West Calder | 39 | 39 | 12 |
| Addiewell | 38 | 38 | 12 |
| Fauldhouse | 38 | 38 | 12 |
| Holytown | 38 | 39 | 12 |
| Bellshill | 37 | 38 | 12 |
| Cleland | 37 | 37 | 12 |
| Carfin | 37 | 37 | 12 |
| Hartwood | 37 | 37 | 12 |
| Uddingston | 36 | 38 | 12 |
| Breich | 35 | 35 | 12 |
| Cambuslang | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| Motherwell | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Carluke | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Carstairs | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Wishaw | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Lines serving Kirknewton
Kirknewton is on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Kirknewton station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Kirknewton station on 137 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 26 paths on the Wednesday, 15 paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 30 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 07:00 to 08:00 on the Tuesday, with 5 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 Kirknewton station is
71,168 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,911th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Kirknewton and Edinburgh than any other pair: 40,790 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: 19 stations instead of 24, a drop of about 21%. Saturday runs to 24.
Nearest other stations
- Livingston South 2.9 miles
- Uphall 3.4 miles
- Livingston North 4.4 miles
- Curriehill 4.5 miles
- Edinburgh Park 5.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Kirknewton, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Ravelrig Junction Platform · 2.5 miles
- Drumshoreland · 2.5 miles
- Ratho · 3.6 miles
- Newpark · 3.7 miles
- Balerno · 3.8 miles
- Broxburn · 4.0 miles
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Facilities at Kirknewton station
Kirknewton is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Waiting room
Parking at Kirknewton station
- Station Car Park 33 spaces, 1 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 18 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Kirknewton station
Kirknewton station is in West Lothian, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M8 J2 (Claylands), 2.6 miles north.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Kirknewton 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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