Leuchars train station
You can reach 56 stations directly from Leuchars on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Dundee, with 70 trains a day.
Leuchars is the nearest station for postcodes in KY16. Check your own postcode.
- 56 direct destinations
- 803rd busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 150 parking spaces
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Leuchars
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dundee | 70 | 66 | 32 |
| Edinburgh Waverley | 68 | 66 | 32 |
| Haymarket | 67 | 65 | 31 |
| Cupar | 60 | 58 | 25 |
| Inverkeithing | 57 | 54 | 32 |
| Ladybank | 39 | 37 | 17 |
| Markinch | 39 | 38 | 18 |
| Edinburgh Gateway | 36 | 36 | 15 |
| Aberdeen | 32 | 30 | 19 |
| Arbroath | 32 | 30 | 19 |
| Montrose | 30 | 28 | 19 |
| Stonehaven | 29 | 27 | 19 |
| Carnoustie | 8 | 8 | 5 |
| Darlington | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| Doncaster | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| Newcastle | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| York | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| London King's Cross | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| Newark Northgate | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| Peterborough | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| Springfield | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Broughty Ferry | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| Laurencekirk | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Portlethen | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Alnmouth | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Dunfermline City | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Falkirk Grahamston | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Glasgow Queen Street | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Glenrothes with Thornton | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Linlithgow | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Camelon | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cowdenbeath | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dunfermline Queen Margaret | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Durham | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dunbar | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dyce | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Elgin | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Forres | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Grantham | 1 | 1 | 0 |
and 16 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Leuchars
Leuchars is on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Leuchars station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Leuchars station on 11 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path 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 Leuchars station is
584,032 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 803rd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Leuchars and Edinburgh than any other pair: 264,432 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: 28 stations instead of 56, a drop of about 50%. Saturday runs to 43.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Leuchars gains 21 destinations including Dalgety Bay, Burntisland, Taunton, Plymouth, Sheffield, Derby and loses 1 including South Gyle.
Nearest other stations
- Cupar 5.9 miles
- Dundee 6.4 miles
- Broughty Ferry 6.5 miles
- Balmossie 7.2 miles
- Monifieth 7.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Leuchars, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Leuchars · 0.6 miles
- Guardbridge · 1.1 miles
- Dairsie · 3.2 miles
- St Fort · 3.3 miles
- St Andrews closed 1887 · 3.8 miles
- Kilmany closed 1951 · 4.1 miles
Show closed stations on the map
Facilities at Leuchars station
Leuchars is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:20 to 18:00 · Friday: 06:20 to 18:30 · Saturday: 06:20 to 18:00 · Sunday: 10:10 to 14:40
Toilets · Waiting room · WiFi
Parking at Leuchars station
- Station Car Park 150 spaces, 4 accessible
£1.00 a day
Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 2 September 2026.
Getting to Leuchars station
Leuchars station is in Fife, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Golflink Stance.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Leuchars 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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