Transport Travel Guide 

Transport & travel to Aberdeen & Dundee

• You can travel easily to the Grampian region by air, sea, rail or road. The area is served by Aberdeen airport and Rosyth ferry port for travel from Europe. Major roads, motorways and mainline trains provide great access to the mountains and moorlands of Perth and Kinross inland and the east coast between Aberdeen and Dundee.

Direct flights to Aberdeen Airport are available daily from all parts of the UK and Ireland including London, Manchester and Birmingham. Short haul, charter and scheduled flights travel to destinations across Europe. Scandinavian destinations are also well served with flights. Connecting flights onwards to Aberdeen for transatlantic and further international destinations can be arranged at most UK and European hub airports including London, Manchester, Glasgow and Amsterdam. Dundee Airport has Scotair flights to London City Airport.

Internal flights are an important means of travel within Scotland. Destinations available from Aberdeen to Highlands & Islands Airports include Kirkwall, the Shetlands, Sumberg and Wick. Aberdeen is the busiest Heliport in Britain sees more than 40 helicoptor flights a week serving the North Sea oil fields.

To travel by ferry you can sail into the port of Rosyth from Belgium for a leisurely journey from Europe or disembark at any of the English ports and travel by road, train or fly onwards to a Scottish airport if time is limited.

Trains travel to the main stations at Aberdeen, Perth and Dundee either direct from London, Kings Cross or with a change at Edinburgh. Overnight sleeper train services are a popular and restful way to travel to the North East of Scotland.

Driving to, and around, the Grampian area is easy and pleasurable with good roads and light traffic in most parts. From the south, the A90 is the main road to Aberdeen while the A9 travels cross country inland between Perth and Inverness via Pitlochry. The A90 coast road links Perth to Dundee, the A92 continues north up the coast through Arbroath, Montrose, Stonehaven, Fraserburgh to Nairn.