Prestonpans train station

You can reach 8 stations directly from Prestonpans on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Drem, with 42 trains a day.

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• 8 direct destinations
• 1,242nd busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free in part
• 165 parking spaces
• 2 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Prestonpans

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

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Lines serving Prestonpans

Prestonpans 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 Prestonpans station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Prestonpans station on 205 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 40 paths on the Wednesday, 17 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 52 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 08:00 to 09:00 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Prestonpans station is

257,514 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,242nd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Prestonpans and Edinburgh than any other pair: 202,686 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

• Wallyford 1.7 miles
• Longniddry 3.7 miles
• Musselburgh 4.0 miles
• Newcraighall 4.7 miles
• Brunstane 4.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Prestonpans, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Seton Mains Halt · 1.7 miles
• Macmerry · 2.6 miles
• Ormiston · 2.9 miles
• Inveresk · 3.0 miles
• Musselburgh closed 1970 · 3.3 miles
• Winton · 3.3 miles

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Facilities at Prestonpans station

Prestonpans is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.

Waiting room

Parking at Prestonpans station

• Station Car Park 165 spaces, 11 accessible
  free

Cycle parking: 22 spaces (sheltered, lockers).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 12 August 2026.

Getting to Prestonpans station

Prestonpans station is in East Lothian, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.

The nearest motorway junction is M8 J1 (Hermiston Gait), 13.5 miles west.

2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station Journey Hub.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Prestonpans 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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