West Calder train station

You can reach 21 stations directly from West Calder on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Edinburgh Waverley, with 64 trains a day.

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West Calder is the nearest station for postcodes in EH55. Check your own postcode.

21 direct destinations
1,577th busiest in Britain
Unstaffed
Step-free throughout
25 parking spaces
1 bus stop nearby

Direct trains from West Calder

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

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Edinburgh Waverley	64	63	12
Haymarket	64	63	12
Livingston South	64	63	12
Shotts	64	63	12
Bellshill	62	62	12
Glasgow Central	62	62	12
Holytown	42	42	12
Addiewell	40	40	12
Cleland	40	40	12
Carfin	40	40	12
Fauldhouse	40	40	12
Hartwood	40	40	12
Uddingston	40	41	12
Curriehill	39	39	12
Kirknewton	39	39	12
Kingsknowe	38	38	12
Slateford	38	38	12
Wester Hailes	38	38	12
Breich	36	36	12
Cambuslang	7	7	0
Motherwell	1	1	0

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Lines serving West Calder

West Calder is on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through West Calder station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside West Calder station on 99 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 18 paths on the Wednesday, 14 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 24 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 07:00 to 08:00 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.

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

How busy West Calder station is

140,058 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,577th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between West Calder and Edinburgh than any other pair: 78,720 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.