Kinghorn railway station explained

Kinghorn
Native Name:Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Gronn[1]
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Kinghorn, Fife
Country:Scotland
Coordinates:56.0692°N -3.1743°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:ScotRail
Platforms:2
Code:KGH
Original:Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Pregroup:North British Railway
Postgroup:LNER
Years:20 September 1847
Events:Station opened
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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, north east of .

History

The station was opened on 20 September 1847 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway when they opened the line from to .

The 1856 Ordnance survey shows just a station here.[2] 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.[3]

Two camping coaches were positioned here by the Scottish Region in 1964.[4]

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 . One of the latter then returns to Edinburgh via 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 and or Perth. Sundays see an hourly service each way via the Fire Circle.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Brailsford . Martyn . Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man . 6th . December 2017 . 1987 . Trackmaps . Frome . 978-0-9549866-9-8 . Gaelic/English Station Index .
  2. Web site: Kinghorn station on OS Six-inch map Fife, Sheet 37 (includes: Kinghorn; Kirkcaldy And Dysart) . 1856 . National Library of Scotland . 14 July 2020.
  3. Book: The Railway Clearing House . 1904 . 1970 . 1970 D&C Reprint . The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 . Newton Abbot . David & Charles Reprints . 0-7153-5120-6 . 295.
  4. Book: McRae, Andrew. British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s . Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two) . Foxline . 1998 . 1-870119-53-3. 28.