There are 9 ways to get from Stockport to Kirkcaldy by train, bus, car, or plane
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Train
best- Take the train from Manchester Piccadilly to HaymarketManchester Airport - Edinburgh / ...
5h 25m£37–214Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Shudehill Interchange to Buchanan Bus Station
- Take the bus from Buchanan Bus Station to North Approach RoadX27 / ...
- Take the bus from North Approach Road to Railway Station Stance DX27
9h 8m£24–45Drive 244.9 mi
- Drive from Stockport to Kirkcaldy244.9 mi
4h 11m£61–88Fly Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)MAN - EDI
5h 9m£81–157Train via Wigan
- Take the train from Wigan North Western to Edinburgh WaverleyLondon Euston - Edinburgh / ...
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to KirkcaldyEdinburgh - Perth / ...
7h 17m£44–186Train to Liverpool, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the train from Stockport to Liverpool South Parkway
- Fly from Liverpool (LPL) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)LPL - EDI
6h£85–219Train to Birmingham Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the train from Stockport to Birmingham International
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)BHX - EDI
5h 2m£80–243Train to Birmingham Airport, fly to Glasgow Airport, train
- Take the train from Stockport to Birmingham International
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)BHX - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Haymarket
6h 11m£80–275Fly Manchester Airport to Aberdeen Airport, train
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Aberdeen Airport (ABZ)MAN - ABZ
- Take the train from Aberdeen to Kirkcaldy
6h 33m£88–246
Stockport to Kirkcaldy by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Stockport to Kirkcaldy is to bus which costs £23 - £50 and takes 9h 8m.
The fastest way to get from Stockport to Kirkcaldy is to drive which takes 4h 11m and costs £60 - £90.
No, there is no direct bus from Stockport to Kirkcaldy station. However, there are services departing from Mersey Square and arriving at Railway Station Stance D via Piccadilly Gardens, Shudehill Interchange, Buchanan Bus Station and North Approach Road. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 9h 8m.
No, there is no direct train from Stockport to Kirkcaldy. However, there are services departing from Stockport and arriving at Kirkcaldy via Manchester Piccadilly and Haymarket. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 5h 25m.
The distance between Stockport and Kirkcaldy is 251 miles. The road distance is 246.4 miles.
The best way to get from Stockport to Kirkcaldy without a car is to train which takes 5h 25m and costs £35 - £220.
It takes approximately 5h 25m to get from Stockport to Kirkcaldy, including transfers.
Stockport to Kirkcaldy bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Shudehill Interchange station.
Stockport to Kirkcaldy train services, operated by TransPennine Express, depart from Manchester Piccadilly station.
The best way to get from Stockport to Kirkcaldy is to train which takes 5h 25m and costs £35 - £220. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs £23 - £50 and takes 9h 8m, you could also fly, which costs £80 - £160 and takes 5h 9m.
What companies run services between Stockport, England and Kirkcaldy, Scotland?
TransPennine Express operates a train from Manchester Piccadilly to Haymarket every 4 hours. Tickets cost £30–170 and the journey takes 3h 11m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Mersey Square to Railway Station Stance D via Piccadilly Gardens, Shudehill Interchange, Buchanan Bus Station, and North Approach Road in around 9h 8m.
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- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Belfast (Aldergrove)
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 46m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £50–190
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Belfast City
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £50–190
Flights from Liverpool to Edinburgh Airport via Belfast (Aldergrove)
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 47m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £55–180
Flights from Liverpool to Edinburgh Airport via Belfast City
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–180
Flights from Liverpool to Edinburgh Airport via Derry
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £55–180
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £24–80
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Belfast (Aldergrove)
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £24–80
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Glasgow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £22–75
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Glasgow Airport via Belfast (Aldergrove)
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- £22–75
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Belfast City
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £55–110
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £55–110
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Isle Of Man
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £75–280
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Southampton
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 22m
- When
- Tuesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- £95–370
Flights from Liverpool to Edinburgh Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £65–180
Flights from Manchester Airport to Aberdeen Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £85–180
Flights from Manchester Airport to Aberdeen Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £70–150
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 53m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £55–120
Flights from Liverpool to Edinburgh Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 17m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £60–160
Flights from Liverpool to Edinburgh Airport via Cork
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £60–160
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Glasgow Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- When
- Monday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–95
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Belfast City
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £55–110
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £55–110
Flights from Liverpool to Edinburgh Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £65–180
- Website
- loganair.co.uk
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Isle Of Man
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £75–280
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Southampton
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 22m
- When
- Tuesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- £95–370
Flights from Manchester Airport to Aberdeen Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £85–180
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £50–110
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Manchester Piccadilly to Haymarket
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £30–170
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Stockport to Liverpool South Parkway
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £8–15
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Wigan North Western to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 44m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £40–120
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
Train from Stockport to Birmingham International
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- £70–140
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Kirkcaldy
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £11–12
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Haymarket
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- £17–18
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Kirkcaldy
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £40–55
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Kirkcaldy
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £4–5
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Kirkcaldy
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £20–55
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Kirkcaldy
- Ave. Duration
- 33 min
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £11–12
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Stockport to Birmingham International
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £30–95
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Aberdeen to Kirkcaldy
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- £12–55
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Kirkcaldy
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £60–75
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–75
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £220–260
Train from Aberdeen to Kirkcaldy
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 26m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £60–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–80
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £240–280
- Phone
- 03457 125 678
- Website
- eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk
Train from Stockport to Liverpool South Parkway
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £7–25
- Website
- https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Shudehill Interchange to Buchanan Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £15–35
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- 0141 352 4444
- enquiries@megabus.com
- Website
- uk.megabus.com
Bus from Shudehill Interchange to Buchanan Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £17–24
- Website
- https://uk.megabus.com
- Phone
- 0345 241 8000
- customer.services@stagecoachbus.com
- Website
- stagecoachbus.com
Bus from Buchanan Bus Station to North Approach Road
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- £4–7
- Website
- https://www.stagecoachbus.com
Bus from North Approach Road to Railway Station Stance D
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £4–6
- Website
- https://www.stagecoachbus.com
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More Questions & Answers
Stockport to Kirkcaldy bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Buchanan Bus Station.
Stockport to Kirkcaldy train services, operated by TransPennine Express, arrive at Haymarket station.
Yes, the driving distance between Stockport to Kirkcaldy is 246 miles. It takes approximately 4h 11m to drive from Stockport to Kirkcaldy.
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