Haymarket railway station

For other uses, see Haymarket station.

Haymarket
Platforms 1 to 4 at Haymarket, showing the tunnels leading to Waverley station to the east. Platform 0 has since been constructed to the left of this picture.
General information
Location	Edinburgh
Managed by	First ScotRail
Platforms	5
Other information
Station code	HYM
History
Opened	1842

Haymarket railway station is in Haymarket, Edinburgh, Scotland. It is Edinburgh's second largest station after Waverley, a major commuter and long-distance destination, located quite centrally near the West End. Trains from the station serve much of Scotland west and north of Edinburgh (including Fife and Glasgow), and local lines to the east, and the trunk route down the west coast of England.

History

The station opened in 1842 as the original terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, before the line was extended in 1846 through the Haymarket tunnels and Princes Street Gardens to what is now Waverley station. it has allawys been just 'haymarket' not 'edinburgh haymarket'

Current station and usage

The station has four through platforms and, since December 2006, one bay platform on the north side of the station. As a general rule, trains to/from stations across the Forth Rail Bridge make use of platforms 1 and 2 (the non-electrified lines on the left of the photograph), with trains to/from Glasgow and the West Coast Main Line using platforms 3 & 4. The bay platform (platform 0) was built for services terminating at Haymarket while major engineering works are taking place at Waverley station.

The station is now listed amongst the most congested on the Scottish railway network due to rapid increases in passenger numbers (see usage data to the right). The Network Rail Business Plan 2007 suggests that options for remodeling passenger facilities at the station are to be considered during the period of the plan.

Murrayfield Stadium and Haymarket TMD are both located to the west of the station, on the north side of the railway.

Gallery

• 
  The station forecourt in the morning rush hour
• 
  Close-up of the main station building
• 
  The new west-facing terminating platform, Platform 0
• 
  The 1252 Edinburgh Waverley-Bournemouth stops at Platform 4, while the 1200 Glasgow Central-London Kings Cross passes through non-stop

External links

• Train times and station information for Haymarket railway station from National Rail

Services

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Edinburgh Waverley		National Express East Coast East Coast Main Line		Motherwell
		National Express East Coast East Coast Main Line		Inverkeithing
		National Express East Coast East Coast Main Line		Falkirk Grahamston
Edinburgh Waverley		Virgin Trains West Coast Main Line		Carlisle
		First TransPennine Express TransPennine North West
Edinburgh Waverley		CrossCountry Cross Country Network		Inverkeithing
		CrossCountry Cross Country Network		Motherwell
Edinburgh Waverley		First ScotRail Glasgow-Edinburgh via Falkirk line		Linlithgow
Edinburgh Waverley		First ScotRail  Edinburgh–Bathgate line		Edinburgh Park
Edinburgh Waverley		First ScotRail  Edinburgh–Dunblane Line		Edinburgh Park
Edinburgh Waverley		First ScotRail  Fife Circle Line		South Gyle
Edinbugh Waverley		First ScotRail Shotts Line		Slateford
	Historical railways
Edinbugh Waverley		Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway North British Railway		Saughton
		E&G - Corstorphine Branch North British Railway		Balgreen
Edinbugh Waverley		Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway North British Railway		Gorgie
Commencement of line		Duff Street Spur Caledonian Railway		Gorgie (East)

After Edinburgh tram network opens

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Murrayfield Stadium		Edinburgh Line 1b		Shandwick Place
Roseburn		Edinburgh Line 1a