Trains from Edinburgh

Edinburgh has 422 trains timetabled to leave on Wednesday 4 November, run by ScotRail, LNER, CrossCountry and 4 others, calling at 221 stations between them. The first goes at 04:28 and the last at 23:56.

The rush peaks at 17:00, with 31 departures in the hour, and platform 12 is the busiest, with 44 trains.

If you’ve time to kill, the CrossCountry train to Penzance takes 10 hours 39. On paper.

Waverley is named after Walter Scott’s Waverley novels. It sits in the valley between the Old Town and the New Town, where the Nor Loch was until it was drained. Its steps up to Princes Street were long known as the windiest spot in the city, and a roof and escalators were added in 2012. The wind is still in the timetable.