Portlethen train station
You can reach 34 stations directly from Portlethen on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Aberdeen, with 40 trains a day.
Portlethen is the nearest station for postcodes in AB12, AB13, AB14. Check your own postcode.
- 34 direct destinations
- 1,927th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free in part
- 28 parking spaces
- 4 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Portlethen
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen | 40 | 40 | 18 |
| Laurencekirk | 40 | 40 | 12 |
| Montrose | 40 | 40 | 18 |
| Stonehaven | 40 | 40 | 18 |
| Arbroath | 20 | 20 | 10 |
| Dundee | 20 | 20 | 10 |
| Carnoustie | 15 | 15 | 5 |
| Broughty Ferry | 13 | 13 | 5 |
| Perth | 13 | 12 | 5 |
| Dyce | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| Inverurie | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| Kintore | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| Glasgow Queen Street | 11 | 11 | 4 |
| Monifieth | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| Stirling | 11 | 11 | 4 |
| Edinburgh Waverley | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Haymarket | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Leuchars | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Cupar | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Gleneagles | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Invergowrie | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Bridge of Allan | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Dunblane | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Inverkeithing | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Markinch | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Elgin | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Forres | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Huntly | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Insch | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Inverness | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Inverness Airport | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Keith | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ladybank | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Nairn | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Portlethen
Portlethen is on the Dundee to Aberdeen Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Portlethen station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Portlethen station on 47 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 10 paths on the Wednesday, 4 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 21 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 15:00 to 16:00 on the Wednesday, with 3 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 Portlethen station is
68,214 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,927th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Portlethen and Aberdeen than any other pair: 47,972 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: 23 stations instead of 34, a drop of about 32%. Saturday runs to 34.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Portlethen gains 1 destination including Kirkcaldy.
Nearest other stations
- Aberdeen 5.7 miles
- Stonehaven 7.5 miles
- Dyce 10.3 miles
- Kintore 15.1 miles
- Inverurie 18.1 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Portlethen, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Newtonhill · 2.2 miles
- Muchalls · 3.2 miles
- Cove Bay · 3.3 miles
- West Cults · 4.2 miles
- Cults · 4.2 miles
- Pitfodels · 4.2 miles
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Facilities at Portlethen station
Portlethen is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Waiting room
Parking at Portlethen station
- Station Car Park 28 spaces, 2 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 16 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 August 2026.
Getting to Portlethen station
Portlethen station is in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Portlethen 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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