Haymarket railway station

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Haymarket
Location
Place	Edinburgh
Local authority	Edinburgh
Operations
Station code	HYM
Managed by	First ScotRail
Platforms in use	5
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Passenger Usage
2002/03 *	1.088 million
2004/05 **	1.571 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1842
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Haymarket.   * 2002/03 Disclaimer  ** 2004/05 Disclaimer
UK Rail Portal

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. Yet it is never billed in timetables as "Edinburgh Haymarket", just Haymarket. 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.

The station opened in 1842 as the original terminus for trains from Glasgow, before the line was extended in 1846 through the Haymarket tunnels and Princes Street Gardens to what is now Waverley station.

The station has four through platforms and, since December 2006, one bay platform on the north side of the station. ^[1] As a general rule, trains to/from stations across the Forth Rail Bridge make use of platforms 1 and 2 (the non-electrified lines in the photograph on the right), 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.

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

[edit] References

1. ^ Train platforms open at stations

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Haymarket railway station from National Rail
• Map and aerial photo of Haymarket railway station from Multimap.com

[edit] Services

West Coast Main Line

Legend Edinburgh Waverley for ECML Haymarket Glasgow Central     for SPT Network Motherwell for SPT Network Carstairs for SPT Network Carstairs South Junction Lockerbie Carlisle for Tyne Valley Line,    Cumbrian Coast Line and    Glasgow South Western Line Penrith Oxenholme Lake District     for Windermere Line Lancaster Preston Wigan North Western Bolton Warrington Bank Quay Liverpool Lime Street Runcorn Weaver Junction Manchester Piccadilly Stockport Cheadle Hulme Junction Crewe North Junction Crewe Stoke-on-Trent Stone Junction Norton Bridge Junction Stafford Colwich Junction Lichfield Trent Valley Wolverhampton Tamworth Birmingham New Street Nuneaton Coventry Rugby for Birmingham Loop Northampton Milton Keynes Central Watford Junction London Euston

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Edinburgh Waverley		GNER East Coast Main Line		Motherwell or Inverkeithing or Stirling
Lockerbie		Virgin Trains West Coast Main Line		Edinburgh Waverley
Edinburgh Waverley		Virgin Trains Virgin Cross Country		Inverkeithing or 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 Crossrail		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

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