Kinghorn railway station

Kinghorn

Scottish Gaelic: *Ceann Gronn*^[1]
Kinghorn; Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Gronn
General information
Location	Kinghorn, Fife ; Scotland
Coordinates	56°04′09″N3°10′27″W / 56.0692°N 3.1743°W
Grid reference	NT269868
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KGH
History
Original company	Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
20 September 1847	Station opened
Passengers
2018/19	93,782

Last updated December 17, 2023

223⁄4 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]

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References

↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ "Kinghorn station on OS Six-inch map Fife, Sheet 37 (includes: Kinghorn; Kirkcaldy And Dysart)". National Library of Scotland. 1856. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Table 242 National Rail timetable, May 2016

External links

Train times and station information for Kinghorn railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	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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[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.

[Quick-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

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Kinghorn Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Gronn^[1]

General information
Location	Kinghorn, Fife Scotland
Coordinates	56°04′09″N3°10′27″W / 56.0692°N 3.1743°W / 56.0692; -3.1743
Grid reference	NT269868
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KGH
History
Original company	Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
20 September 1847	Station opened
Passengers

2018/19	93,782