North Queensferry railway station

North Queensferry railway station is a railway station in the village of North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line, 11 ¹⁄₄ miles (18.1 km) northwest of Edinburgh Waverley.

North Queensferry
Scottish Gaelic: Port na Banrighinn[1]
A class 170 stands at North Queensferry, awaiting a service to Glenrothes with Thornton
Location
Place	North Queensferry
Local authority	Fife
Coordinates	56.0124°N 3.3947°W / 56.0124; -3.3947
Grid reference	NT131808
Operations
Station code	NQU
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	0.160 million
2015/16	0.164 million
2016/17	0.156 million
2017/18	0.171 million
2018/19	0.163 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1890 (1890)
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at North Queensferry from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

Although the station was not in service by the time of the opening of the Forth Bridge in March 1890, it was in use soon after. The station replaced the station at North Queensferry Pier, which had been opened in 1874 to take passengers to and from the ferry across the Forth.[2]

The station has been unstaffed since 1990, following the closure of its ticket office. The original wooden Victorian station building is still standing and its design is unique to the area.

To celebrate the Forth Bridge Centenary in 1990, a large mosaic depicting the bridge and the local area, created entirely by local residents, was unveiled at the station on Platform 2. The mosaic is now a well-known landmark on the Fife Circle line.

Services

A train to Edinburgh

Monday to Saturday daytimes four trains per hour go to Haymarket and onwards to Edinburgh Waverley southbound. Four trains per hour head towards northbound Inverkeithing and the Fife Circle. Of these, two run the full length of the circular route to Glenrothes with Thornton (one "clockwise" via Dunfermline, the other "anti-clockwise" via Kirkcaldy), one runs to Glenrothes via the coast and then terminates there and the other runs via Dunfermline to terminate at Cowdenbeath.[3]

Evenings and Sundays two trains per hour go to Edinburgh Waverley and two along the Fife Circle, one via Dunfermline and the other via Kirkcaldy.

References

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. "Forth Bridge Railway"Railscot; Retrieved 1 July 2016
3. Table 242 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dalmeny		Abellio ScotRail Fife Circle Line		Inverkeithing