Dunbar Railway Station - Services

Services

The station is served by First ScotRail, CrossCountry and East Coast. It is managed by East Coast and as is noteworthy as being one of only two National Rail stations in Scotland not to be managed either by First ScotRail or Network Rail, the other being Glasgow Prestwick Airport railway station. The station is served mainly by CrossCountry trains on the Plymouth to Edinburgh route (with projections to/from Dundee, Aberdeen or Glasgow Central in the North and Penzance in the South). These trains serve Dunbar at roughly two-hourly intervals throughout the day. East Coast services call at Dunbar in the Morning and Evening peaks on Monday to Saturday and eight times on Sunday. First ScotRail also provides some Monday to Saturday services to Edinburgh. The weekday Scotrail services were introduced in the May 2010 timetable (marking the first time in 20 years since Scotrail used Dunbar). A year later in May 2011, all Scotrail services between Dunbar and Edinburgh introduced a one intermediate stop at Musselburgh to allow the connection of Dunbar students to Queen Margaret University. Then in the December 2011 timetable, a late Saturday night service to Dunbar from Edinburgh was introduced. The Saturday daytime services were introduced in the December 2012 timetable. The Scotrail services enhance Dunbar every two hours during the day making the daytime services hourly on Mondays-Saturdays. First Scotrail does not serve Dunbar on Sundays. Train services on Sundays are two hourly throughout the day except for the evenings where these services are hourly until mid/late evening. In October 2012, it was announced that Dunbar is to remain managed by East Coast until September 2014.