Rosyth railway station explained

Rosyth
Native Name:Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Ros Fhìobh[1]
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Rosyth, Fife
Country:Scotland
Coordinates:56.0455°N -3.4269°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:ScotRail
Platforms:2
Code:ROS
Opened:1 December 1917[2]
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Rosyth railway station serves the town of Rosyth in Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and lies on the Fife Circle Line, 23.61NaN1 north of . It was opened in 1917 by the North British Railway (as Rosyth Halt) to serve the nearby naval dockyard.

Services

2011

On Mondays to Saturdays during the daytime, there is generally a half-hourly service southbound to, and a half-hourly service northbound towards the centre of Dunfermline, continuing round the Fife Circle through, eventually coming back to Edinburgh Waverley. In the evenings the service is hourly in each direction and on Sundays two-hourly.

2016

The basic service remains unchanged on weekdays and Saturdays (half-hourly to Edinburgh and Cowdenbeath, with hourly extensions around the full Fife Circle), but there is now an hourly service each way on Sundays.

Upgrade

In 2013 construction began at Rosyth station to build new disabled access points, so that people with wheelchairs and buggies can make their way onto the platform.[3] There are also plans for a new transport hub to be built at Rosyth, with 500 car park spaces, a bus station, and a taxi rank.

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: North British Railway: List of Stations with opening and closing dates from 1828 to 2003 . North British Railway Study Group . https://web.archive.org/web/20200924195247/https://www.nbrstudygroup.co.uk/nbr/pdfs/station_list.pdf . 24 September 2020.
  3. http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/13514615.New_ramps_set_to_be_built_at_Rosyth_train_station/ "New ramps set to be built at Rosyth train station"