Aberdour railway station

Railway station in Fife, Scotland

56°03′18″N 3°18′02″W / 56.0549°N 3.3005°W / 56.0549; -3.3005Grid referenceNT190854Managed byScotRailPlatforms2Other informationStation codeAURKey dates2 June 1890Station opensPassengers2018/19Increase 0.140 million2019/20Decrease 0.126 million2020/21Decrease 14,7262021/22Increase 62,9902022/23Increase 78,952
Listed Building – Category B
Designated12 July 1985Reference no.LB3629[2]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Aberdour railway station is a railway station in the village of Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line.

History

Opened by the North British Railway in 1890 (as part of the approach routes linking the Edinburgh and Northern Railway to the new Forth Rail Bridge), it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced by British Rail, the station was served by the ScotRail sector until the Privatisation of British Railways. The station has won numerous awards for its gardens.

The station was the location of a camping coach in 1957.[3]

Services

Aberdour is served by two trains per hour (weekday daytimes) which serve all stations between Edinburgh Waverley and Kirkcaldy. Both continue to Glenrothes with Thornton, where one terminates & returns to Edinburgh whilst the other continues around the Fife Circle Line returning to Edinburgh via Dunfermline. In the evening, the frequency drops to hourly, with most trains continuing to Dundee (though one runs to Perth instead). Sunday trains are also hourly, running round the Fife Circle.[4]

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Dalgety Bay   ScotRail
Fife Circle Line
  Burntisland

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. ^ "ABERDOUR RAILWAY STATION INCLUDING SHELTER, FOOTBRIDGE AND SIGNAL BOX". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Table 242 National Rail timetable, May 2016
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