Springfield
Location type
StationName and dates
Springfield (1847-)Station code: SPF National Rail ScotRail
Where: Fife, Scotland
Opened on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
Open on the Edinburgh to Dundee.
Description
This is a two platform station. The building design is the smaller style of station on the former Edinburgh and Northern Railway by David Bell. The building is on the southbound platform.
The goods yard was on the south side, accessed by a reversing spur approached from the west. The signal box was at the east end of the westbound platform. It closed in 1967.
The village of Springfield is to the west of the station.
To the west of the station was Cults Siding for the Cults and Pitlessie Lime Works Railway.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
06/06/2019
| Nearby stations Cupar Ladybank Kingskettle Collessie Luthrie Dairsie Falkland Road Rathillet Siding Lindores [2nd] Lindores [1st] Kilmany Auchtermuchty Lundin Links Glenburnie Leven [2nd] | Cults Siding Pitlessie Maltings Cults Lime Works Bunzion Lime Works Ladybank Works Ladybank Shed Ladybank Chemical Works Ladybank Saw Mill Ladybank South Junction Beet Factory Signal Box Rameldry Colliery Montrave Goods Tourist/other Scotstarvit Tower Hill of Tarvit Mansion Coaltown of Burnturk |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 17/09/1847 | Edinburgh and Northern Railway Opened from Burntisland to Lindores and Cupar. Stations at Burntisland [1st], Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Sinclairtown, Dysart, Thornton, Markinch, Falkland Road, Kingskettle, Ladybank, Collessie, Lindores [1st], Springfield and Cupar. |
News items
| 15/04/2023 | Historic trail repaired after pothole damage [DNG Online Limited] |
| 07/10/2011 | Cost-cutting threat to rural rail stations [Herald] |
