RAILSCOT | Glenrothes with Thornton

Station

Glenrothes with Thornton (1992-)

Station code: GLT National Rail ScotRail
Where: Fife, Scotland
Opened on the Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway).
Open on the Fife Circle.

This is a modern two platform station. On the north side is the station car park, once the site of sidings approached by reversal from Thornton West Junction [1st].

Despite appearances, this is not a conventional two platform station and the two platforms are on separate lines. The north platform is on the curve from Thornton West Junction to Thornton North Junction and the south platform is on the Thornton West Junction to Thornton South Junction curve. Thornton West Junction is to the immediate west of the station.

Thornton Shed [2nd] was to the west of the station, the original Thornton West Junction [1st] was to the east of the station. Thornton Wagon Works were to the south of the station.

In terms of the local village of Thornton it replaces the former Thronton Junction station, although unlike that station it is not on the main line from Edinburgh Waverley to Dundee and Aberdeen..

Station
09/06/2019

Nearby stations Thornton Junction Thornton Junction [W&BR] West Wemyss Dysart Sinclairtown [2nd] Sinclairtown [1st] Markinch Wemyss Castle Kirkcaldy Leslie Cameron Bridge [1st] Buckhaven Cameron Bridge Cardenden Methil	Thornton Wagon Works Middlefield Engine House Thornton West Junction Ore Bridge Works (Flax) Fife Railway Wagon Works Thornton Colliery Thornton West Junction [1st] Thornton Shed [1st] Balbeggie Farm Open Cast Thornton South Junction Thornton Shed [2nd] Orrsmill Pit Crane Thornton Scrapyard Rothes Pit
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

/ /1992	Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway) Glenrothes with Thornton opened.

03/02/2023	Fife Circle rail services to be reviewed by ScotRail [Dunfermline Press]
13/08/2020	Disruption to Fife rail services continues after storms [Fife Today]