Haymarket railway station

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This article is about a railway station in Scotland. For subway station in Boston, see Haymarket (MBTA station).

Haymarket
Location
Place	Edinburgh
Local authority	Edinburgh
Operations
Station code	HYM
Managed by	First ScotRail
Platforms in use	4
Annual entry/exit 02/03	1.088 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
* based on sales of tickets in 2002/03 financial year which end or originate at Haymarket. Disclaimer (PDF)

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. As of 2006 the station has four through platforms with a new bay platform under construction 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 in the photograph on the right), with trains to/from Glasgow and the West Coast Main Line using platforms 3 & 4.

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

[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

Principal stations (from south to north) London Euston Watford Junction Milton Keynes Central Rugby (for Birmingham Loop) Nuneaton Tamworth Lichfield Trent Valley Stafford Crewe then Manchester Piccadilly or Liverpool Lime Street Warrington Bank Quay Wigan North Western Preston Lancaster Oxenholme Lake District Penrith North Lakes Carlisle Lockerbie Carstairs Junction then Motherwell and Glasgow Central or Haymarketand Edinburgh Waverley (for East Coast Main Line)

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 East Coast Main Line		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

Railway stations in Edinburgh
Commuter lines: █ Bathgate • █ Crossrail • █ Dunblane • █ Fife Circle • █ North Berwick • █ Shotts
Stations: Brunstane • Curriehill • Dalmeny • Edinburgh Park • Haymarket • Kingsknowe • Newcraighall • Slateford • South Gyle • Waverley • Wester Hailes
Transport in Edinburgh 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		edit