Edinburgh and Glasgow

We have produced a number of "Quick Change Crib Sheets" for travel to Edinburgh and Glasgow:

These pages HAVE all been edited for the new timetables starting Monday 29th July 2024.

• Crail to Edinburgh Weekdays

• Crail to Edinburgh Saturdays

• Crail to Edinburgh Sundays

• Crail to Glasgow Weekdays

• Edinburgh to Crail Weekdays

• Glasgow to Crail Weekdays

We hope to gradually produce more crib sheets... - if you have a particular crib sheet you would like us to work on then please Contact Us.

For other journeys, or if you like more time when changing buses, we are recommending that you use the Stagecoach journey planner to plan your travel - but this doesn't always show all the possible changes at Halbeath because the planner software is set to need more than 5 minutes when changing buses.

To help with planning your journey it can be useful to know that the Stagecoach Express services are often grouped as pairs...

The X24 between St Andrews and Glasgow and the X59 between St Andrews and Edinburgh are one example of a pair - these services are usually set to be half-an-hour apart so that the journey between St Andrews and Halbeath Park & Ride and any points on the route is served every 30 minutes.

From Monday 5th May 2025 there is a new service between St Andrews and Halbeath Park & Ride - the JET787 - this service runs about every 2 hours throughout the day. It is not well timed for journeys starting in Crail - but if you find that an X24 towards Halbeath is missing then it may be useful to catch the JET787 instead if that is the next Halbeath bound bus to depart from St Andrews. The JET787 can be more useful in the other direction - from Halbeath to St Andrews - when it may help with journeys early or late in the day.

Similarly the X58 and X60 between St Andrews and Edinburgh are another pair - they depart from (and arrive at) St Andrews at similar times to each other - but by the time the buses get to Leven they are half-an-hour apart so that the section of their route between Leven and Edinburgh is served every 30 minutes (there are minor variations in these two routes to serve slight diversions from the general route).

The X24 between St Andrews and Glasgow and the X27 between Leven/Kirkcaldy and Glasgow form a pair at the other end of their journeys - providing a service every 30 minutes between Halbeath Park & Ride and Glasgow.

And the X54 between Dundee and Edinburgh and the X59 between St Andrews and Edinburgh form another pair - providing a service every 30 minutes between Halbeath Park & Ride and Edinburgh.

At Halbeath Park & Ride buses are often given around 5 minutes in their timetables to exchange passengers with similar services - you can almost consider the X24/X54 as a continuous service between St Andrews and Edinburgh (changing at Halbeath) and from 29th July 2024 the X59/X27 timetables restore the continuous connection between St Andrews and Glasgow.

These pairings can also work for the other arms of the journey: the X27/X59 providing a service between Leven/Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh.

The X56 between Perth and Edinburgh and the X61 between Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh form another pair - meaning that along with the X54/X59 there are services between Halbeath and Edinburgh every 10 or 15 minutes.

To prepare yourself to change buses at Halbeath Park & Ride it may be useful to see: map of stances at Halbeath Park & Ride 

"ember" are running electric buses between Dundee and Glasgow and these along with Megabus coaches mean that it's possible to travel to Glasgow later in the day than just using the Stagecoach Express buses - it's also possible to use these services to get from Glasgow to Crail earlier in the day - ember timetables change frequently.

Flixbus have also added more services between Dundee and Glasgow and between Dundee, Halbeath and Edinburgh.

Travelling to Edinburgh Airport or Ingliston? The JET 747 between Halbeath, Ferrytoll and Edinburgh Airport runs every 20 minutes from Monday 26th June 2023.

For flexibility in changing buses when you want, for example if services are delayed and you decide to change your planned route, we recommend a Day ticket - if you need onward bus travel in Edinburgh then we recommend the "One-Ticket"...