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Trains arriving from Edinburgh were forced to divert to Cowdenbeath due to the issue.
(Permalink) Broken down train Caledonian Sleeper Diversions Kirkcaldy Markinch |
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Scotrail has been instructed to review Fife Circle services following demand for 'much-needed improvements'. Annabelle Ewing, SNP MSP for the Cowdenbeath constituency, which includes Rosyth, Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay, hopes that 'lessons are learned from current performance' during the next phase of the operator's 'Fit for the Future' scheme.
(Permalink) Aberdour Burntisland Cardenden Cowdenbeath Dalgety Bay Dunfermline City Dunfermline Queen Margaret Fife Circle Glenrothes with Thornton Inverkeithing Kinghorn Kirkcaldy Lochgelly Rosyth  Burntisland: The sharp curve at Burntisland is very noticeable in this view along the Up platform as a pair of 158s, working a clockwise Fife Circle service, call on 5th August 2021.  Inverkeithing: A class 170 for Edinburgh from the Dunfermline line calls at Inverkeithing on 19 May 2021. The HST seemed to be held up for an unnecessary amount of time to let it into the station, but I'm sure they ...  Dunfermline Queen Margaret: A frosty morning at Dunfermline, Queen Margaret on 20 January 2023 as the 1001 service to Edinburgh Waverley (0956 ex-Cowdenbeath) arrives at platform 1. |
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Villagers have raised concerns over the loss of a direct train.
(Permalink) Dunfermline Kirkcaldy North Queensferry Timetable  North Queensferry: The new Edinburgh - Perth shuttle service, comprising a partially re-liveried First Scotrail 158, reaches the north shore of the Forth on 28 March. |
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A photograph of the woman behind the poem The Boy in the Train now sits alongside the famous work in Kirkcaldy station.
(Permalink) Kirkcaldy Mary Campbell Smith The Boy in the Train |
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With works down on the Newhaven line extension still in progress, officials are set to put forward the proposals, which would see the tram operate on a north-south tram line.
(Permalink) Edinburgh Council Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway Edinburgh Trams Ferry Granton Kirkcaldy Newhaven Politics Proposals  Princes Street [Tram]: Edinburgh trams 275 and 256 meet at the Princes Street stop on 23 September.  Granton: A look 'ashore' along Granton Middle Pier where the wooden station was situated to the right of the newer brick building. Nowadays this is more of a quay than a pier as the West Harbour has been fille ...  Newington [NBR]: A diverted Waverley - Queen Street service passing west through the site of Newington station on Sunday 2 April 2006 on its way round the 'sub' to join the E&G main line at Haymarket West Junction. |
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It was almost 60 years ago this month that Kirkcaldy's linoleum industry suffered a hammer blow when 750 workers were paid off.
(Permalink) Ostlere and Shepherd Ltd Barry Kirkcaldy Linoleum |
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A town's tenants and residents association and local councillor are calling on Network Rail and Fife Council to enhance the south west entrance to Kirkcaldy by carrying out improvements to a railway bridge and its surroundings.
(Permalink) Invertiel Junction Kirkcaldy |
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Kirkcaldy is set to lose more than 40 train services to and from Edinburgh each day if Scotrail's contentious plans to shake-up local services next year get the go ahead, councillors have warned.
(Permalink) Kirkcaldy ScotRail Timetabling  Kirkcaldy: 170451 enters Kirkcaldy, with a Fife Circle - Edinburgh service, on 5 August 2021.  Kirkcaldy: A semi-fast service for Edinburgh calls at Kirkcaldy on 29th July 2020. The emergency timetable in operation at the time left Fife services fairly unaffected (outwith peaks, anyway) and there were sti ...  Kirkcaldy: The morning CrossCountry Aberdeen to Penzance service calls at Kirkcaldy on 24 October 2018 after a necessarily lengthy announcement (think what it is like at Aberdeen). I wonder how many people make ... |
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ScotRail is planning to axe the direct Kirkcaldy to Perth service under its 'post-Covid' timetable shake-up.
(Permalink) Kirkcaldy Perth Timetabling |
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A Kirkcaldy man is asking Network Rail to reconsider tree cutting near his back garden for fear of the impact the felling may have on nesting birds.
(Permalink) Kirkcaldy Tree cutting |
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Members of the Rotary Club of Kirkcaldy have been back at the town's railway station creating colourful displays for locals and visitors.
(Permalink) Kirkcaldy Rotary Club of Kirkcaldy |
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A new family fitness centre is to be built on the site of one of Kirkcaldys last remaining social clubs.
(Permalink) Kirkcaldy Kirkcaldy Railway Club |
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All trains running through Aberdour station have been delayed or revised after the crash on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy.
(Permalink) Bridge Strike Kirkcaldy |
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The Scottish Greens have proposed billion-pound plans to build a rail crossing under the Firth of Forth which would 'substantially' cut journey times north.
(Permalink) Forth Tunnel Fraserburgh Kirkcaldy Leith Peterhead Westhill  Peterhead: View over the buffer stops at Peterhead on 24 May 1969 showing D5323 at the platform with the Formartine and Buchan Railtour preparing to return to Aberdeen.  Fraserburgh: The very last goods train at Fraserburgh on the 5th October 1979. Jim Morrison, one-time signalman at Fraserburgh, and latterly railwayman at Maud is pointing out something of interest to the driver o ... |
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The Scottish Greens have promised to dig deep for votes after proposing billion-pound plans to tunnel under the Firth of Forth.
(Permalink) Forth Tunnel Kirkcaldy Leith |
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It's an idea that may strike some as comically grandiose: a railway tunnel under the Firth of Forth to link Fife with Leith.
(Permalink) Forth Tunnel Kirkcaldy Leith |
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Plans for a nine-mile 'game changer' tunnel under the Forth have been announced by the Scottish Greens as part of a £22 billion scheme to transform the country's rail network.
(Permalink) Forth Tunnel Kirkcaldy Leith |
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The Rail for All programme would pull investment from extending the road network, doubling the resources pumped into rail.
(Permalink) Forth Tunnel Kirkcaldy Leith |
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