Musselburgh train station
You can reach 8 stations directly from Musselburgh on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Edinburgh Waverley, with 53 trains a day.
Musselburgh is the nearest station for postcodes in EH21. Check your own postcode.
- 8 direct destinations
- 907th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free in part
- 122 parking spaces
- 10 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Musselburgh
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh Waverley | 53 | 64 | 26 |
| Wallyford | 52 | 63 | 26 |
| Drem | 42 | 56 | 26 |
| Prestonpans | 42 | 56 | 26 |
| Longniddry | 41 | 56 | 26 |
| North Berwick | 41 | 55 | 26 |
| Dunbar | 12 | 9 | 0 |
| Haymarket | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Musselburgh
Musselburgh 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 Musselburgh station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Musselburgh station on 19 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 4 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 Musselburgh station is
461,092 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 907th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Musselburgh and Edinburgh than any other pair: 323,464 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: 6 stations instead of 8, a drop of about 25%. Saturday runs to 7.
Nearest other stations
- Newcraighall 0.7 miles
- Brunstane 1.2 miles
- Shawfair 1.3 miles
- Wallyford 2.3 miles
- Eskbank 3.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Musselburgh, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Newhailes · 0.5 miles
- Cairney · 0.7 miles
- Musselburgh closed 1970 · 0.8 miles
- Fisherrow · 0.8 miles
- Niddrie · 0.9 miles
- Inveresk · 1.2 miles
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Facilities at Musselburgh station
Musselburgh is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Waiting room
Parking at Musselburgh station
- Station Car Park 122 spaces, 6 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 8 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Musselburgh station
Musselburgh station is in East Lothian, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M8 J1 (Hermiston Gait), 9.6 miles west.
10 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Queen Margaret University.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Musselburgh 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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