Dalmeny | |
Native Name: | gd|Dùn Mheinidh |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Dalmeny, Edinburgh |
Country: | Scotland |
Coordinates: | 55.9862°N -3.3815°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | ScotRail |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | DAM |
Original: | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway original station North British Railway current station |
Pregroup: | North British Railway |
Postgroup: | London and North Eastern Railway |
Years: | 1 March 1866 |
Events: | Original station opened by E&GR |
Years1: | 5 March 1890 |
Events1: | E&G station closed |
Years2: | 28 April 1890 |
Events2: | NBR Forth Bridge station opened |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Dalmeny railway station is a railway station serving the towns of Dalmeny and South Queensferry, about 8miles west of Edinburgh city centre. It is on the Fife Circle Line, located just south of the Forth Bridge.
The current station is the second to serve the town. The first station was on the Port Edgar branch of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway which opened on 1 March 1866.[1] [2] The North British Railway closed the original station on 5 March 1890[1] to be replaced by the existing station at the same time as the opening of the Forth Bridge.[1]
The majority of trains calling at the station (4 per hour each way Mon-Sat, 2 per hour on Sundays) are part of the Fife Circle Line services, however there is a daily service between and that calls here and uses the line to Winchburgh Junction. The winter 2010/11 timetable extended the majority of the Fife Circle Line services to (at the south east end of the Edinburgh Crossrail), but since September 2015, only a few do so (working to/from at peak periods).
£55 million is being spent to electrify 104km (65miles) of Fife Circle track, between Haymarket and Dalmeny, for use by battery electric multiple units, was begun by Scottish Powerlines in June 2022 and is due to be completed by December 2024.[3]