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All photographs of this location in date order.
![Looking north over Kinghorn Station with a southbound sprinter and the North Sea in the background.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3395.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Great Marquess 3442 north of Kinghorn with an SRPS Fife Circle excursion on 14 September 1994.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /09/1994]](/images/57000/57740.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The few passengers of 117 301 (including me) detrained at Kinghorn because of a smoke leak after a grinding journey from Kirkcaldy. September 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /09/1998]](/images/18000/18201.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A view over Kinghorn Station - looking north in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2005]](/images/4000/4000.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Train leaving Kinghorn for Edinburgh in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2005]](/images/4000/4031.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Kinghorn Station main building, lineside, 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2005]](/images/4000/4032.jpg "Kinghorn")
![An Edinburgh train at Kinghorn in May 2005. Is there a slight touch of Italian Adriatic Coast about the place?<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2005]](/images/6000/6101.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Road approach to Kinghorn station in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2005]](/images/6000/6102.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Kinghorn Station. A 170 calls with an Edinburgh service. Behind the train is a choppy Firth of Forth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2007]](/images/16000/16988.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Heading north around Pettycur Bay to Kinghorn.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/03/2007]](/images/14000/14041.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Scene at Kinghorn in May 2007 showing the up waiting room in the early stages of dismantling. Although it appeared in reasonable external condition the structure had been declared unsafe and had been out of use for some time.<br><br>[David Panton 25/05/2007]](/images/20000/20722.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A Waverley bound service, headed by SWT liveried 158 786 calls at Kinghorn on 25 May 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 25/05/2007]](/images/20000/20998.jpg "Kinghorn")
![View south from below the canopy of the condemned waiting shelter on the up platform at Kinghorn on 28 May 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 28/05/2007]](/images/21000/21476.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A circle train arriving at Kinghorn southbound.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/07/2007]](/images/15000/15775.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The 1910 Edinburgh-Aberdeen (left) accelerates away from Kinghorn Tunnel past the arriving 1941 Outer Circle service.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/07/2007]](/images/15000/15778.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Northerly view of Kinghorn station with North Sea beyond. The crumbling platform is being reinforced.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/07/2007]](/images/15000/15787.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Street view of Station Building at Kinghorn<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/07/2007]](/images/15000/15822.jpg "Kinghorn")
![North view of Kinghorn station building railside.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/07/2007]](/images/15000/15860.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The <I>Northern Belle</I> passing Kinghorn with Royal Train class 67 no.67006 at the rear on 14 December.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17466.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The Northern Belle accelerates through Kinghorn station with leading loco 67029 blasting exhaust.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17482.jpg "Kinghorn")
![67006 <I>Royal Sovereign</I> heads up to Kirkcaldy on the rear of <I>The Northern Belle</I> passing Kinghorn on 14 December.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17660.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The northbound <I>Royal Scotsman</I> approaches Kinghorn Tunnel behind 47 804 on 12 May 2008. Burntisland stands in the background.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/05/2008]](/images/19000/19014.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Having just left Kinghorn tunnel, the 09.50 Aberdeen - London Kings Cross NXEC service passes Pettycur Bay. A steeply graded branch once dropped to the shore at the left of the train to serve a bottle works. The Forth Bridge stands in the left background.<br>
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<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/09/2008]](/images/20000/20548.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Customer information display on the northbound platform at Kinghorn on 20 December 2008. For the first couple of days of the new timetable Inner Circle services were described on information screens, accurately if pedantically, as <I>Newcraighall</I> even though you'd be daft to go that way round. A very quick change of heart and they're now described as terminating at Kirkcaldy - making them indistinguishable from the services in between which actually do. How long I wonder before they revert to <I>Glenrothes with Th</I> which customers understood through familiarity to mean Edinburgh via Dunfermline? <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 20/12/2008]](/images/21000/21838.jpg "Kinghorn")
![View north showing the main station building at Kinghorn on 20 December 2008. Like all other E&N stations on the 1847 Burntisland to Cupar line (apart from the original Burntisland itself when it was a ferry terminal) Kinghorn had a flat canopy supported by closely-spaced plain columns. This colonnade has since been boxed in with wood and the ticket window moved to what was the outside wall. An ornate lamp-bracket attached to one column was cut round and survives, most of it indoors. Other surviving buildings from 1846/7 are Markinch, Ladybank, Springfield and Cupar. Springfield, though long a private house, is closest to how Kinghorn would originally have looked. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 20/12/2008]](/images/21000/21855.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The sole, disabled-hostile access to Platform 1 at Kinghorn station. 15 February 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 15/02/2009]](/images/22000/22529.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The evening EWS-stocked Outer Circle service pulls into Kinghorn on 4 May 2009 behind 67 003.<br><br>[David Panton 04/05/2009]](/images/23000/23551.jpg "Kinghorn")
![67 003 pulls away from Kinghorn on 4 May 2009 with the returning EWS-stocked Outer Circle service.<br><br>[David Panton 04/05/2009]](/images/23000/23704.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A sylvan setting on the south-western fringes of Kinghorn in May 2009, but the curving field boundary in centre-left gives a clue that this was the course of the former Binnend Oilworks railway, closed in 1905.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/05/2009]](/images/23000/23809.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Power car 43320 leads an Aberdeen-London Kings Cross HST service through Kinghorn on 4 June.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/06/2009]](/images/23000/23976.jpg "Kinghorn")
![66 173 and 66 047 at either end of a short PW train standing at Kinghorn on Sunday 14 June. Hard against it is the end of a much longer, ballast train.<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2009]](/images/24000/24109.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Kinghorn - freezing foggy February foredawn, forsooth. Looking north over the platforms on 17 Feb 2010<br><br>[David Panton 17/02/2010]](/images/27000/27768.jpg "Kinghorn")
![158735 runs into Kinghorn station on 15 April with a service to Glenrothes.<br><br>[John Steven 15/04/2010]](/images/28000/28542.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Looking resplendent no 1. Kinghorn on 15 April 2010.<br><br>[John Steven 15/04/2010]](/images/28000/28550.jpg "Kinghorn")
![On 30 May 170 416 approaches the Up platform at Kinghorn with a service for, unusually, Dunfermline Town. The Forth Bridge line has been closed on Sundays in May for engineering work so services are using the north to east curve at Inverkeithing thus avoiding Inverkeithing station. Passengers for Edinburgh are bussed from Dalgety Bay. Out on the Firth of Forth a vessel (one of eight) waits its turn to go up river. Below decks there are no doubt swarthy men in greasy vests playing cards.<br><br>[David Panton 30/05/2010]](/images/29000/29160.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The second trip of the SRPS special photographed alongside Pettycur Bay on 22 August with Burntisland in the background.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/08/2010]](/images/30000/30377.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Shale oil production is mainly associated with West Lothian, but the <br>
shale stratum carries on under the Forth to make it into Fife (just) and there was a pit and works at Binnend, behind Burntisland. <br>
Production lasted a mere 16 years until 1893/4. The two mile branch built to serve it opened in 1887, so had an even shorter working life. Not surprisingly faith and imagination is needed to follow most of its course today, but this bit of evidence is incontrovertible. This bridge, photographed on 6 November 2010, is about half-way along the former line on the other side of the B923 from Kinghorn Loch.<br><br>[David Panton 06/11/2010]](/images/31000/31412.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A short stretch of the trackbed of the short-lived mineral line from <br>
Kinghorn to Binnend Oilworks, photographed on 6 November, looking west. The line curved right under the B923, in the middle distance, and climbed to the works which closed in 1893/4. Of the works there <br>
is not a trace, but up the hill are fragments of the ghost village of Binnend. It once had a population of several hundred workers, and survived closure of the works with the last resident not moving out until the 1950s. It was also used as holiday cottages, which must have been pretty basic as there was no mains anything, including water, and no road access. After abandonment it was used as target practice by the TA!<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 06/11/2010]](/images/31000/31433.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The product of the late-Victorian Binnend Oilworks was sent off on its two mile branch to join the network immediately north of Kinghorn station. Some of it however didn't get that far as there was a candle factory on the branch. The building survived until recently. This is the site of it looking east on 6 November. The line curved round to the right, where that fence now is, and passed where I'm standing. You'll have to imagine the walrus moustaches, gormless expressions and total disregard for health and safety.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 06/11/2010]](/images/31000/31458.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The Binnend Oilworks branch left the main line at Kinghorn station. It had to get to the other side of the East Port end of the High Street, but the ground rose too sharply for a level crossing so a short tunnel had to be dug. The course of the line into the tunnel can be made out in this photograph of 7 November, with the tunnel mouth plugged (after a gap of many decades) by the local medical practice (the building with the mansard roof). The street side of Kinghorn station building can be seen on the far left.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 07/11/2010]](/images/31000/31569.jpg "Kinghorn")
![170 458 leaving Kinghorn on 5 March with a service to, unusually, Dunfermline Town due to a diversion caused by weekend engineering works. At least passengers on Platform 1 would have been aware in advance where this train was heading: a Customer Information Screen has just been installed there, 4 years after one was installed on Platform 2. NR and FSR waiting on each other, apparently: though that was in 2008! <br><br>[David Panton 05/03/2011]](/images/33000/33115.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Locals on the Fife coast line are normally going to Waverley, but a few each day are extended to Newcraighall. This Customer Information Screen has recently been installed on Platform 1 at Kinghorn, Platform 2 having had one for about 4 years. Presumably limited clearance (the platform is narrow) is the reason for the 'menu' style screen rather than the sideways scrolling style. It's odd that menu screens don't show the current time: wouldn't this be rather easy to arrange? <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 16/03/2011]](/images/33000/33250.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The Fife Circle add-on to the Spitfire Railtours <I>Edinburgh Explorer II</I> passes south through Kinghorn on 19 November 2011 with 57001 leading and 50044 + 50049 bringing up the rear.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/11/2011]](/images/36000/36471.jpg "Kinghorn")
![50044+50049 bring up the rear of the <I>'Edinburgh Explorer II'</I> special as it returns south through Kinghorn on 19 November [see image 36471].<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/11/2011]](/images/36000/36478.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The cutting to the north of the tunnel at Kinghorn being cleared of vegetation and stabilised during line occupation on Sunday 12 February 2012.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/02/2012]](/images/37000/37594.jpg "Kinghorn")
![<I>'I don't recall any mention of abseiling in the PW manual!'</I> Stabilisation work underway on the cutting north of Kinghorn tunnel on 12 February 2012.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/02/2012]](/images/37000/37638.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Two class 170 units pass between Kinghorn Tunnel and the station on 19 June. The cutting had been cleared of vegetation and stabilised earlier this year. In the background is the Art Deco former <I>Regal</I> cinema.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/06/2012]](/images/39000/39308.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Lynette Gray at Kinghorn [see news item]. <br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/09/2012]](/images/3000/3756.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Looking across the platforms at Kinghorn station in September 2012 - see news item.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/09/2012]](/images/4000/4632.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Part of the car park at Kinghorn station - see news item.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/09/2012]](/images/5000/5186.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Transformation at Kinghorn - see adjacent news item.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/04/2013]](/images/3000/3111.jpg "Kinghorn")
![This roundel of a J36 - appropriately the last working class of steam <br>
locomotive in Scottish mainline service, and based in Fife - by local <br>
sculptor Kenny Munro now decorates the station car-park which has been <br>
landscaped by the Kinghorn Station Studios and Gallery. [See image 23043]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/04/2013]](/images/42000/42667.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The Darlington - Dundee Northern Belle between Kinghorn tunnel and station on 15 June behind 47501. No 47832 was on the rear of the train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/06/2013]](/images/43000/43409.jpg "Kinghorn")
![47832 brings up the rear of the <I>Northern Belle</I> passing through Kinghorn station on 15 June en route from Darlington to Dundee. 47501 is on the front of the train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/06/2013]](/images/43000/43416.jpg "Kinghorn")
![West Coast 37685 passes Kinghorn on its way from Dundee to Craigentinny on 24 May.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 24/05/2014]](/images/47000/47417.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Ex-LMSR 46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> with the morning SRPS <I>Forth Circle</I> entering Kinghorn station on 14 September.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/09/2014]](/images/48000/48704.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Colas 56113 and 56078 enter Kinghorn station on 4 July 2015 with a Millerhill - Inverness ballast train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/07/2015]](/images/51000/51863.jpg "Kinghorn")
![West Coast 57316 runs through Kinghorn with a route learner working on 30th January 2018.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 30/01/2018]](/images/62000/62797.jpg "Kinghorn")
