Dalgety Bay railway station
Dalgety Bay  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Dalgety Bay |
| Local authority | Fife |
| Coordinates | 56°02′32″N 3°22′02″W / 56.0423°N 3.3672°WCoordinates: 56°02′32″N 3°22′02″W / 56.0423°N 3.3672°W |
| Grid reference | NT149841 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | DAG |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 0.247 million |
| 2011/12 |
 0.264 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.268 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.284 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.308 million |
| History | |
| 2 March 1942 | Donibristle Halt opened close to Dalgety Bay[1] |
| 1959 | Donibristle Halt closed |
| 27 March 1998 | Dalgety bay opened[2] |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dalgety Bay from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Dalgety Bay railway station serves the town of Dalgety Bay in Fife, Scotland. Lying on the Fife Circle and Edinburgh to Aberdeen lines, it is managed by Abellio ScotRail. It is currently the nearest railway station to Fordell Firs Camp site, the Scottish national headquarters for The Scout Association in Scotland, part of Scouting in Scotland.
History
The station is built close to the former station Donibristle Halt, opened in 1942 [3] (closed 1959) as part of the Aberdour Line by the North British Railway, and named for the Earl of Moray's estate of Donibristle on which it stood.
Facilities
From 2015 onwards, the station has two platforms and is unstaffed. The station is equipped with shelters on both platforms, with a self-service ticket machine located in the shelter in Platform 1. A footbridge connects the platforms.
Services
2008
Services are given in National Rail Timetable 242. There is a basic 30 minute service, with alternate trains serving Kirkcaldy and the Fife Circle route via Cowdenbeath to Edinburgh. Kirkcaldy services are periodically extended to Dundee.[4]
2016
The same 30-minute base service remains, but daytime trains all now run beyond Kirkcaldy to Glenrothes with Thornton northbound. One of the two terminates there, whilst the other returns to Edinburgh via Cowdenbeath. In the evening trains run hourly and mostly run to Dundee or Perth, whilst on Sundays they run to Glenrothes & back to Edinburgh.[5]
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Inverkeithing | Abellio ScotRail Fife Circle Line |
Aberdour | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Inverkeithing | Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway North British Railway |
Aberdour Aberdour Line North British Railway | ||
| Rosyth Halt | Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway North British Railway |
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References
Notes
- ↑ http://www.nbrstudygroup.co.uk/nbr/pdfs/station_list.pdf
- ↑ "New £1.5 million railway station puts public transport links on track". Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ↑ http://www.nbrstudygroup.co.uk/nbr/pdfs/station_list.pdf
- ↑ "Edinburgh ↔ Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Markinch" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ↑ Table 242 National Rail timetable, May 2016
Sources
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- Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.