North Berwick Line

North Berwick Line
The terminus of the line at North Berwick
Overview
Type Commuter rail
Regional rail
Heavy rail
System National Rail
Locale Edinburgh / East Lothian, Scotland
Termini Edinburgh Waverley
North Berwick / Dunbar
Stations 8
Operation
Owner Network Rail
Operator(s) Abellio ScotRail
Depot(s)
Rolling stock Class 170 "Turbostar"
(For use on one weekday morning and evening peak time train)
Class 380 "Desiro"
(All other Services)
Class 385
Technical
Number of tracks Double-track from Waverley to Drem
Single-track from Drem to North Berwick
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Electrification 25 kV 50 Hz AC
North Berwick Line
Glasgow Central
Glasgow Subway St Enoch
 Motherwell
Wishaw
Carluke
 Carstairs
Left arrow West Coast Main Line
Right arrow Shotts Line
 Kirknewton
 Haymarket Edinburgh Trams
Edinburgh Waverley
Edinburgh Trams St Andrew Square
Left arrow Borders Railway
 Musselburgh
 Wallyford
 Prestonpans
 Longniddry
 Drem
North Berwick
East Linton
(proposed)
 Dunbar
Reston
(proposed)
 Down arrow East Coast Main Line

The North Berwick Line is a railway line linking Edinburgh with North Berwick in Scotland. The route follows the East Coast Main Line as far as Drem where it then branches to the north.

The section between Drem and Edinburgh Waverley shares the track with the London North Eastern Railway London Kings Cross - Edinburgh Waverley service. It consists of all or part of the following Network Rail routes:

  • SC 147 from Edinburgh Waverley
  • SC 149 from Drem Junction to North Berwick

Passenger services are operated by Abellio ScotRail. The line is electrified at 25 kV AC overhead.

Services

Most services run between North Berwick and Edinburgh Waverley, with peak-time services continuing to Haymarket and 2 services a day continuing through to Glasgow Central and onwards to Ayr. Service is generally hourly between 7am and 7pm, with half hourly service at peak time and on Saturdays, and a reduced hourly service on weekday evenings and Sundays.

Although incorporated into the same timetable from May 2010, ScotRail provide services to Dunbar; however, these typically did not stop at intermediate stations. From May 2011, all ScotRail services to/from Dunbar now stop at Musselburgh. These services run two hourly during Mondays-Saturdays with an additional late night service.

Rolling stock

The Class 380 "Desiro" has been using the route since June 2011. They replaced the Class 322's in which they finished service on this line in August the same year after 6 years. They have been cascaded onto the Wakefield Line with Northern Rail. When the Saturday daytime services to Dunbar by Scotrail was introduced in December 2012, the Class 170 "Turbostar" regularly took on these services. Following the Borders Railway construction in September 2015, the Class 158 "Express Sprinter" took over the Dunbar Services. As of the December 2017 timetable, the Class 380 now run services to Dunbar on Saturdays. The class 170 can also sometimes run to North Berwick because of ScotRail's lack of EMUs based in Edinburgh particularly during peak times.

In September 2018, ScotRail services on the North Berwick Line have started using the new Class 385 units. Services are formed of six coaches (two 3-car units). The Class 380 units will be cascaded by the end of 2018 to increase capacity on the Ayrshire and Inverclyde Lines to and from Glasgow allowing the 385s to be permanent trains on this route. It'll also reduce the need for diesel units to be borrowed on the line at peak times as the number of 385s are stationed at Millerhill Depot and available for routes such as Glasgow, Stirling and Shotts.

Historical route

As with many contemporary routes, trains on this line run on the metals of several historical routes:

See also

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