Dalgety Bay railway station

Dalgety Bay railway station serves the town of Dalgety Bay in Fife, Scotland. Lying on the Fife Circle and Edinburgh to Aberdeen lines, it is managed by Abellio ScotRail. It is currently the nearest railway station to Fordell Firs Camp site, the Scottish national headquarters for The Scout Association in Scotland, part of Scouting in Scotland.

Dalgety Bay
Scottish Gaelic: Bàgh Dhealgadaidh[1]
Location
Place	Dalgety Bay
Local authority	Fife
Coordinates	56.0423°N 3.3672°W / 56.0423; -3.3672
Grid reference	NT149841
Operations
Station code	DAG
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.308 million
2015/16	0.341 million
2016/17	0.315 million
2017/18	0.323 million
2018/19	0.306 million
History
2 March 1942	Donibristle Halt opened close to Dalgety Bay[2]
1959	Donibristle Halt closed
27 March 1998	Dalgety bay opened[3]
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dalgety Bay from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

The station is built close to the former station Donibristle Halt, opened in 1942 [4] (closed 1959) as part of the Aberdour Line by the North British Railway, and named for the Earl of Moray's estate of Donibristle on which it stood. It is also close to the line of the former Fordell Railway, which operated from 1770 to 1946 and passed below the main line to the east of the station.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has two platforms, connected by a footbridge which is accessible via ramps or steps. The station is equipped with shelters on both platforms, with a self-service ticket machine located in the shelter on Platform 1.

Services

2008

Services are given in National Rail Timetable 242. There is a basic 30 minute service, with alternate trains serving Kirkcaldy and the Fife Circle route via Cowdenbeath to Edinburgh. Kirkcaldy services are periodically extended to Dundee.[5]

2016

The same 30-minute base service remains, but daytime trains all now run beyond Kirkcaldy to Glenrothes with Thornton northbound. One of the two terminates there, whilst the other returns to Edinburgh via Cowdenbeath. In the evening trains run hourly and mostly run to Dundee or Perth, whilst on Sundays they run to Glenrothes & back to Edinburgh.[6]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Inverkeithing		Abellio ScotRail Fife Circle Line		Aberdour
	Historical railways
Inverkeithing		Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway North British Railway		Aberdour Aberdour Line North British Railway
Rosyth Halt		Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway North British Railway

References

Notes

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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
2. http://www.nbrstudygroup.co.uk/nbr/pdfs/station_list.pdf
3. "New £1.5 million railway station puts public transport links on track". Retrieved 25 February 2008.
4. http://www.nbrstudygroup.co.uk/nbr/pdfs/station_list.pdf
5. "Edinburgh ↔ Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Markinch" (PDF). Retrieved 25 February 2008.
6. Table 242 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.