Services
Trains leave Waverley in two directions:
- Eastbound: following a series of closures culminating in that of the Waverley Route in 1969, the only services departing from the east end of Waverley were East Coast Main Line expresses (primarily to London King's Cross and Birmingham New Street), and local trains to North Berwick and Dunbar. Recently, the Edinburgh Crossrail scheme has seen a short stub of the Waverley Route reopened to Newcraighall, and the forthcoming partial reopening of the Waverley Route proper will see trains running to Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders.
- Westbound: the line passes through Princes Street Gardens to Haymarket station. From here, the line to Carstairs and the West Coast Main Line to Carlisle and the South as well as the Edinburgh-Glasgow via Shotts line to Glasgow Central diverges to the south. The next line to diverge is the line for the Forth Bridge and Fife to the north, with services to Glenrothes, Dundee, Perth, Aberdeen and Inverness. The Edinburgh-Glasgow via Bathgate line diverges to the south at Newbridge Junction, carrying services for Milngavie and Helensburgh Central via Glasgow Queen Street low level. Finally, at Polmont Junction, the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line splits from the Stirling and Dunblane line. The former is served almost exclusively by ScotRail's main Glasgow service (via Falkirk High) and the latter by services for Dunblane, Alloa and Perth.
- East Coast operate an hourly service to London King's Cross throughout the day with all trains calling at Newcastle and York and various other stations en-route. Services to London on average take four and a half hours. The exception to this is the 0540 "Flying Scotsman" service which only calls at Newcastle and completes the journey to London in four hours. In the other direction, services are extended to Glasgow Central (1 per day), Aberdeen (4 per day) and Inverness (1 per day).
- CrossCountry operate an hourly service to Plymouth via Leeds and Birmingham. This service is sometimes extended to Penzance in the South or Aberdeen, Glasgow Central or Dundee in the North.
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