Lochgelly railway station explained

Lochgelly
Native Name:Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Loch Geallaidh[1]
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Lochgelly, Fife
Country:Scotland
Coordinates:56.1349°N -3.3135°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:ScotRail
Platforms:2
Code:LCG
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Lochgelly railway station is a railway station in Lochgelly, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line, 25miles north of .

Lochgelly station is on the end of the town towards Ballingry.

The station can be accessed via a ramp from the small car park up to the Edinburgh platform. To access the north bound platform, passengers must cross the road from the car park and climb a flight of stairs.

This station is unmanned and has no ticket vending facilities. Passengers boarding here must buy their tickets from staff on the train.

There is a public phone in the waiting shelter on the Kirkcaldy platform. There are regular bus services to the town centre.

Services

There is generally an hourly service in each direction along the Fife Circle Line westbound towards or eastbound towards .

Daytime services in both directions begin and end at Edinburgh Waverley, apart from a small number of peak trains that start or terminate at Cardenden. Evening trains do not travel beyond northbound.

On Sundays there is also an hourly service in each direction.[2]

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. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 242