Kinghorn railway station

Kinghorn

Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Gronn[1]
National Rail
General information
LocationKinghorn, Fife
Scotland
Coordinates56°04′09″N 3°10′27″W / 56.0692°N 3.1743°W / 56.0692; -3.1743
Grid referenceNT269868
Managed byScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeKGH
History
Original companyEdinburgh and Northern Railway
Pre-groupingNorth British Railway
Post-groupingLNER
Key dates
20 September 1847Station opened
Passengers
2019/20Increase 94,034
2020/21Decrease 9,342
2021/22Increase 50,136
2022/23Increase 69,616
2023/24Increase 88,298
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
Kinghorn railway viaduct looking towards harbour

Kinghorn railway station is a railway station in the town of Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line, 22+3⁄4 miles (36.6 km) north east of Edinburgh Waverley.

History

The station was opened on 20 September 1847 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway when they opened the line from Burntisland to Cupar.[2][3]

The 1856 Ordnance survey shows just a station here.[4] By 1895 the station had expanded, there were two platforms either side of a double track connected by a footbridge, a goods yard to the north west able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock and was equipped with a ¾ ton crane.[5]

Two camping coaches were positioned here by the Scottish Region in 1964.[6]

The railway viaduct (solid other than four tall arches) splits the old town of Kinghorn in half.

Services

Monday to Saturdays daytimes there is a half-hourly service southbound to Edinburgh and northbound to Glenrothes with Thornton. One of the latter then returns to Edinburgh via Cardenden whilst the other terminates at Glenrothes and returns via the coast.

In the evenings there is an hourly service southbound to Edinburgh and hourly northbound to Kirkcaldy and then Markinch and Dundee or Perth. Sundays see an hourly service each way via the Fire Circle.[7]

References

  1. ^ Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  2. ^ Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 264. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
  3. ^ Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. pp. 182–183. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
  4. ^ "Kinghorn station on OS Six-inch map Fife, Sheet 37 (includes: Kinghorn; Kirkcaldy And Dysart)". National Library of Scotland. 1856. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  5. ^ The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. p. 295. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.
  6. ^ McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 28. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
  7. ^ Table 242 National Rail timetable, May 2016
Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Burntisland   ScotRail
Fife Circle Line
   Kirkcaldy
  Historical railways  
Kirkcaldy
Line and station open 		  North British Railway
Edinburgh and Northern Railway 		  Burntisland
Line and station open


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