Saltcoats train station
You can reach 16 stations directly from Saltcoats on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Ardrossan South Beach, with 76 trains a day.
Saltcoats is the nearest station for postcodes in KA21. Check your own postcode.
- 16 direct destinations
- 1,206th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 101 parking spaces
Direct trains from Saltcoats
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardrossan South Beach | 76 | 73 | 39 |
| Glasgow Central | 76 | 73 | 1 |
| Johnstone | 76 | 73 | 39 |
| Kilwinning | 76 | 73 | 39 |
| Paisley Gilmour Street | 76 | 73 | 39 |
| Stevenston | 76 | 73 | 39 |
| Dalry | 74 | 72 | 30 |
| Glengarnock | 74 | 72 | 30 |
| Milliken Park | 73 | 70 | 38 |
| Howwood | 72 | 69 | 29 |
| Lochwinnoch | 72 | 69 | 29 |
| Fairlie | 37 | 35 | 29 |
| Largs | 37 | 35 | 29 |
| West Kilbride | 36 | 35 | 29 |
| Ardrossan Town | 33 | 33 | 10 |
| Ardrossan Harbour | 33 | 33 | 10 |
Lines serving Saltcoats
Saltcoats is on the Largs Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Saltcoats station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Saltcoats station on 18 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 4 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.
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 Saltcoats station is
275,344 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,206th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Saltcoats and Glasgow Central than any other pair: 121,920 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.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Saltcoats gains 1 destination including Hillington West.
Nearest other stations
- Ardrossan South Beach 0.8 miles
- Ardrossan Town 1.2 miles
- Stevenston 1.3 miles
- Ardrossan Harbour 1.4 miles
- Kilwinning 3.3 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Saltcoats, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Saltcoats North · 0.4 miles
- Stevenston Moorpark · 1.1 miles
- Ardrossan North · 1.4 miles
- Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier · 1.5 miles
- Ardeer Platform · 2.2 miles
- Kilwinning East · 3.5 miles
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Facilities at Saltcoats station
Saltcoats is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:45 to 12:00 · Friday: 07:30 to 14:15 · Saturday: 08:15 to 16:00 · Sunday: 10:15 to 13:00
Parking at Saltcoats station
- Station Car Park 101 spaces, 5 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 6 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Saltcoats station
Saltcoats station is in North Ayrshire, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M77 J8, 13.0 miles east.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Saltcoats 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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