We recently relocated to new premises at Hermiston Quay, Our new premises are easily accessible by bus, bicycle, train, air and car. Click on a mode of transport below for travel instructions or download the PDF opposite.
Our addressThe National Trust for Scotland
Hermiston Quay
5 Cultins Rd
Edinburgh
EH11 4DF
By Bus
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The buses that stop near the NTS head office are as follows:
from the City Centre: 2, 3/3A, 25/X25/N25, 34, 35
from Leith: 21, 25/X25/N25
from Gorgie: 25/X25/N25
from Slateford: 20, 34, 35
from Niddrie: 2
from Dalkeith: 3/3A
from Granton (peak services only): 32
The 25 & 34 stop at Calder View (0.3 mile walk), the 2 & 20 stop at Hermiston Gait
(0.6 mile walk), and all others stop at Bankhead Loan on Bankhead Drive
(0.6 mile walk). Walking directions can be obtained by clicking here.
By Bicycle
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By Train
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From Platform 1 (trains from Glasgow or Dunblane) use the nearby underpass or walk over bridge to exit the station and from Platform 2 (trains from Edinburgh) directly exit the station. Once you have left the station turn left, and then take the first road on your right, Cultins Road. After passing the Royal Mail sorting office and Mid New Cultins road both on the right, take the next road on the right which has a bridge over the Union Canal and also gives access to the Ford Peoples garage. We are the first building on the right. A map of the route can be found here.
By Car
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When approaching Hermiston junction take the lane for Hermiston Gait/ City Centre /A71, stay left and once passed the Hermiston Gait Retail Park exit stay in the left lane for the A71.
Keep left and follow the signs for Edinburgh West/CityCentre/Kilmarnock/West Calder A71 (do not go on the City By Pass South A720)
Keep in the left lane for City Centre and you will approach the Calder junction which is a roundabout with traffic lights. Turn left onto the A71 for City Centre, keeping in the left lane, take the first exit signposted Sighthill Industrial Estate/Edinburgh Park Station.
Take the first left at the Ford Peoples Garage. Turn right at the end of this road and the National Trust for Scotland is the building on your right.
Heading west, take the A71, Calder Road, to the Calder Junction roundabout. Go right round the roundabout and exit the junction, back onto the Calder Road, heading east back towards Edinburgh.
Keeping in the left lane, take the first exit signposted Sighthill Industrial Estate/Edinburgh Park Station.
Take the first left at the Ford Peoples Garage. Turn right at the end of this road and the National Trust for Scotland is the building on your right.
By Air
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Alternately, take a taxi from the airport.