Prestwick International Airport train station
You can reach 18 stations directly from Prestwick International Airport on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Ayr, with 75 trains a day.
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Direct trains from Prestwick International Airport
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ayr | 75 | 75 | 52 |
| Barassie | 75 | 75 | 30 |
| Glasgow Central | 75 | 75 | 0 |
| Irvine | 75 | 75 | 52 |
| Johnstone | 75 | 75 | 52 |
| Kilwinning | 75 | 75 | 52 |
| Newton-on-Ayr | 75 | 75 | 30 |
| Prestwick Town | 75 | 75 | 52 |
| Paisley Gilmour Street | 75 | 75 | 52 |
| Troon | 75 | 75 | 52 |
| Dalry | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| Glengarnock | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| Milliken Park | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Hillington East | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Hillington West | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Howwood | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Lochwinnoch | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Cardonald | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Prestwick International Airport
Prestwick International Airport is on the Ayrshire Coast Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Prestwick International Airport station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Prestwick International Airport station on 34 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 6 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and 2 paths on the Sunday. 7 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Monday, 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 Prestwick International Airport station is
85,954 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,825th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Prestwick International Airport and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 35,528 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: 9 stations instead of 18, a drop of about 50%. Saturday runs to 18.
Nearest other stations
- Prestwick Town 0.5 miles
- Newton-on-Ayr 2.5 miles
- Troon 2.8 miles
- Ayr 3.5 miles
- Barassie 3.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Prestwick International Airport, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Monkton · 0.4 miles
- Auchincruive · 2.3 miles
- Troon · 2.8 miles
- Ayr · 3.0 miles
- Newtonhead · 3.0 miles
- Annbank · 3.6 miles
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Facilities at Prestwick International Airport station
Prestwick International Airport is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
Toilets · Waiting room
Parking at Prestwick International Airport station
- Airport Car Park 910 spaces, 20 accessible
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 August 2025.
Getting to Prestwick International Airport station
Prestwick International Airport station is in South Ayrshire, Scotland, and is run by Glasgow Prestwick Airport Ltd.
The nearest motorway junction is M77 J8, 11.6 miles north-east.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Prestwick International Airport 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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