Date: 17/02/2013

Transformation of Ladybank Railway Station to enhance its position as a transport hub is expected to begin next month. Access to platforms is being improved, a 19th century waiting room restored to provide community meeting facilities and new car parking spaces added. Children are already helping to create a community garden at the halt. Ladybank Development Trust, which is working on the project with several other bodies, is delighted with the changes afoot. Spokesman David Croll said: “Work is expected to begin in March on the first phase of these improvements which will see the installation of step-free access ramps and a small amount of additional parking adjacent to the eastern platform. “In keeping with the historic status of the station, the ramps will be constructed using stone from the old wagon shops which are being demolished as they are beyond economic repair.

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Ladybank Railway Station on track to become transport hub - The Courier

The Courier

Transformation of Ladybank Railway Station to enhance its position as a transport hub is expected to begin next month.

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The bufferstop of the former Kinross bay platform (trains had to reverse onto and off the branch until its closure in 1950) is visible in the stationmaster's garden at Ladybank, where trees have been removed from the up sidings.
Location: Ladybank
Company: Edinburgh and Northern Railway
06/02/2013 John Yellowlees

View east down the drive of a house in Golf Street, Ladybank from the road on 20 Sept 2007. On the other side of the line stands part of the works built by the EP&D circa 1848 (a running shed stood to the south nearer the junction). Lattery this building was used as a wagon repair shop, then an S & T store. [See image 16665]
Location: Ladybank Works
Company: Edinburgh and Northern Railway
20/09/2007 John Furnevel

East view of the main station building and station house at Ladybank in June 2006.
Location: Ladybank
Company: Edinburgh and Northern Railway
10/06/2006 Brian Forbes