St Andrews Bus Station
Contact details:
General Enquiries 01334 474238
Ticket office opening hours: Suspended during Coronavirus
Monday - Friday 09:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 17:00
Saturday 09:00 - 12:00 (longer in July/August)
Sunday Closed
Stance 1 - 99 - Dundee
Stance 2 - 95, X58 and X60 to Leven - via Crail, Anstruther, Largo etc - but check Stance 3 as well...
Stance 3 - X24 to Glasgow and X59 to Edinburgh - but check Stance 2 in case the bus is there...
Stance 4 - 90/90A/91/91A/93/93A - local services within St Andrews - all go to the Community Hospital and Morrisons (but the X58 is quicker)
Petheram Bridge Car Park - from Monday 14th August 2023 the Moffat & Williamson 94/94A to Cupar via St Michaels and on to Newburgh
Sometimes a departing bus will not find a stance available - in which case it may pull up at the marked "Drop Off Zone" while the driver gets out to call for any waiting passengers...
St Andrews Bus Station can get quite busy, sometimes there are more buses than will fit on the stances.
Often arriving buses will drop passengers at Stance 5 and then wait away from the stances until their departure is due.
Beware that from Monday 14th August 2023 the 94/94A is run by Moffat & Williamson and it stops outside the far end of the Bus Station in the Petheram Bridge Car Park at a stop previously used by the no longer running 92 university service...
Often a bus wanting to wait on Stance 2 or 3 will find that there is a bus already there and will have to use another stance instead...
If you are travelling to Leven then the X58 is by far the quickest service (35 minutes travel time) - if you miss the X58 then it's usually worth catching an X60 (1 hour 5 minutes travel time) but the 95 is much slower (around 1 hour 40 minutes travel time) and it's generally worth waiting for an X58 as long as there is one due within the next hour...
When Schooldays return there is also an MD15 that runs from City Road at Alexandra Place (walk out of the Bus Station turn right, cross two roads at the roundabout and walk down to the next bus stop) - this stop is useful because all MD15, X58 and X60 buses stop here - the New Madras College has different school timetables on different days so the MD15 passes at different times and as it takes a slow route to Leven it's usually quicker to wait for an X58 - a New Madras special version of the 95 terminating at Pinkerton Road in Crail will also pass this stop at around the same time as the MD15 - if you are going for either of these buses make sure you catch the right one....
Streetview of City Road at Alexandra Place
The hourly Moffat & Williamson service 92 to Balmullo, Tayport and Newport departs from a different stop in City Road - out of the Bus Station and turn left.
Another useful Moffat & Williamson service is the 64 to Strathkinness, Ceres and beyond - this uses a stop on South Street as its St Andrews terminus.
Since the move of Madras College to its new site the bus stop on South Street has been renamed as "Blackfriars" after the ruined medieval chapel.
Streetview of South Street by Blackfriars which many Moffat & Williamson services use.
Typically (midweek, mid-day) there are only 2 sensible direct buses to Cupar every hour - the X59 and the X24 - if the expresses are having problems then the 94/94A may be your saviour - it departs from the stop in the car park along the footpath at the other side of the bus station from the usual stances.
Local bus map for St Andrews: https://www.travelfife.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/378060/St.-Andrews-Nov22.pdf