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 St Andrews Bus Station: Rail information is available at St Andrews Bus Station. Will this be as good as it gets? (The St Andrews branch closed in 1969).  St Andrews [2nd]: The former St. Andrews station area, viewed from near the site of the bridge which carried Doubledykes Road across the line. Here the former trackbed slopes back down to formation level which is reach ...  St Andrews [2nd]: A Gloucester DMU after arrival at St Andrews in wintry conditions on 28th December 1968. The station closed a week later. |
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Jane Ann has tackled various hurdles like sexism and unpaid bills during her work with the station campaign.
(Permalink) St Andrews StARLink St Andrews [2nd]: A Gloucester DMU after arrival at St Andrews in wintry conditions on 28th December 1968. The station closed a week later.  St Andrews [2nd]: View east towards the site of St Andrews station (1887-1969) in the spring of 2011. Station road on the left now leads up to the recently rebuilt bus station, with Hope Park Church spire standing in t ... |
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St Andrews salon owners, taxi drivers and caf staff have backed the town's latest push for a station. [Article requires subscription. -RS]
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The St Andrews rail campaign has come to a standstill because Transport Scotland owe the group tens of thousands of pounds. [Article requires subscription. -RS]
(Permalink) STARLink St Andrews Transport Scotland St Andrews [2nd]: The former St. Andrews station area, viewed from near the site of the bridge which carried Doubledykes Road across the line. Here the former trackbed slopes back down to formation level which is reach ... |
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The Open golf tournament should not return to St Andrews until the town is reconnected to the national rail network.
(Permalink) St Andrews St Andrews Rail Link The Open  St Andrews [2nd]: St Andrews station was in a somewhat cramped location, but the telephoto lens exaggerates the effect in this photograph, taken from a northbound Fife Coast diesel unit. A Metro Cammell DMU can be seen ...  Guard Bridge Viaduct: Surviving piers of the railway bridge that carried the line between Leuchars Junction and St Andrews over the River Eden. Seen here in May 2005 looking north west across the estuary back towards Leuch ...  St Andrews [2nd]: The gateway to St Andrews is the dismantled railway bridge that carried the line over the A91 road at the western edge of the town, seen here in May 2011. Hard to imagine the 'Fife Coast Express'Andrew Wilson 30/05/2011 |
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A pay deal with train drivers has come too late to save many golf fans plans to travel to The Open in St Andrews this week, an MSP has said
(Permalink) 150th Open Championship Leuchars ScotRail St Andrews Timetabling |
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ScotRail is reminding golf fans travelling to The 150th Open Championship at St Andrews to consider their travel options and know what alternative transport is available due to the temporary timetable currently in place. The train operator is running a very limited number of trains to and from Leuchars, the nearest station to St Andrews, during The Open which starts today, Sunday, 10 July and ends on Sunday, 17 July 2022.
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ScotRail is urging golf fans travelling to the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews to consider their travel options and know what alternative transport is available. Due to the temporary timetable currently in place, ScotRail will be running a very limited number of trains to and from Leuchars, the nearest station to St Andrews, during The Open which runs from Sunday, 10 July to Sunday, 17 July 2022.
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The possibility of a rail link between St Andrews and West Fife is being looked at as part of recently-launched consultation,
(Permalink) St Andrews  St Andrews [2nd]: The site of St Andrews Station is now a carpark below the bus station. This is the view from the former Leuchars end of the station. |
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It's one of the enduring images of Paul Lawrie's victory in the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie; the sight of a packed train stopping briefly to salute the Aberdeen golfer's triumph.
(Permalink) St Andrews St Andrews Bus Station: Rail information is available at St Andrews Bus Station. Will this be as good as it gets? (The St Andrews branch closed in 1969).  St Andrews [2nd]: Bridge remains on the St Andrews Branch, photographed in December 2007. NE view of old railway bridge abutments to the west of the town near the Old Course.  St Andrews [2nd]: J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junct ... |
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Reintroducing a rail link to St Andrews is just one of a range of exciting options members of the public are being encouraged to have their say on over the coming weeks.
(Permalink) Guardbridge Leuchars St Andrews  Leuchars Junction [2nd]: Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junction with RCTS Fife Coast Tour from Glasgow St Enoch.  Guard Bridge Viaduct: 64569 takes a train over the River Eden estuary at Guard Bridge in August 1965 on its way from Leuchars Junction to St Andrews. St Andrews [2nd]: J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junct ... |
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It is not hard to be drawn to vintage posters of St Andrews, especially the stunner painted by Gilbert Dunlop for British Rail in the 1950s.
(Permalink) British Rail Gilbert Dunlop Posters St Andrews |
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The pandemic may have stacked the odds against rail travel but plans to revive local stations are still gathering steam.
(Permalink) Kincardine Leven [1st] Leven [2nd] Levenmouth Longannet Newburgh [1st] Newburgh [2nd] St Andrews Talgo  Cameron Bridge [1st]: Looking west from Station Road, over the former Cameron Bridge station and yard on 20th November 2020, with vegetation clearance well advanced.
St Andrews [2nd]: J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junct ... |
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Reopening the St Andrews rail link has been put forward as part of a £22 billion rail revolution proposed by the Scottish Green Party.
(Permalink) STARLink St Andrews St Andrews [2nd]: The gateway to St Andrews is the dismantled railway bridge that carried the line over the A91 road at the western edge of the town, seen here in May 2011. Hard to imagine the 'Fife Coast Express'Andrew Wilson 30/05/2011 St Andrews [2nd]: View east towards the site of St Andrews station (1887-1969) in the spring of 2011. Station road on the left now leads up to the recently rebuilt bus station, with Hope Park Church spire standing in t ...  St Andrews [2nd]: The western approach to St Andrews station seen from a DMU in the early summer of 1967, two years before the line's closure. This was the second St Andrews station with the first, a short distance nor ... |
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A list of options to improve transport links to and from St Andrews is to be considered in more detail after the case for change was approved by Transport Scotland.
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A marked rise in the number of passengers using Leuchars railway station last year merely strengthens the case for train services to be restored to St Andrews, campaigners have claimed.
(Permalink) Leuchars St Andrews St Andrews Bus Station: Rail information is available at St Andrews Bus Station. Will this be as good as it gets? (The St Andrews branch closed in 1969).  Leuchars: 43168 brings up the rear of the 09.04 from Aberdeen to Edinburgh, calling at Leuchars on 30th September 2019.
St Andrews [2nd]: J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junct ... |
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A new report published today [8 Dec] by local rail campaigns and Green MSP Mark Ruskell has called for Fife Council and the Scottish Government to back an ambitious rail reopening strategy for Fife.
The ground-breaking report entitled Breaking The Circle has been jointly produced by the Levenmouth Rail Campaign, the Newburgh Train Station Campaign, the St Andrews Rail Link Campaign (StARlink), Alloa Community Council, David Prescott of Allan Rail Solutions and Mr Ruskell, and represents a united front towards a Fife-wide rail enhancement strategy. (Permalink) Alloa Dunfermline Levenmouth Newburgh St Andrews |
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Trains will run on the Borders railway for the first time in more than 40 years when the Edinburgh Waverley to Tweedbank service resumes on Sunday.
The reopening has given hope to other rail campaigners across Scotland, including those who want to see the lines to Levenmouth and St Andrews reopened. BBC Scotland transport correspondent David Miller has been to Fife to find out more about the campaign. (Permalink) Borders Railway Levenmouth St Andrews  Leuchars: Formerly Leuchars Junction, the current Leuchars Station is seen looking north on 19 May 2005. The infilled bay was used by trains serving St Andrews and the Fife coast route. The St Andrews branch fi ... St Andrews [2nd]: View east towards the site of St Andrews station (1887-1969) in the spring of 2011. Station road on the left now leads up to the recently rebuilt bus station, with Hope Park Church spire standing in t ... St Andrews [2nd]: J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junct ... |
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COMMUTERS on Scotland’s busiest rail line will suffer six weeks of disruption this summer, in the first big test for ScotRail’s new Dutch operator, Abellio.
Part of the main Edinburgh-Glasgow route will be closed from 13 June to 27 July, which coincides with tens of thousands of fans heading for the Open golf at St Andrews. The Winchburgh tunnel in West Lothian is being closed as part of the £750 million electrification of the line to enable faster and longer trains to run. (Permalink) Abellio ScotRail St Andrews  Dalmeny: The Forth Bridge lines are carrying at least 7 passenger services an
hour each way, so when the loops at Dalmeny are used for reversing
trains during occasional diversions of Edinburgh - Glasgow s ...  Dalmeny Junction: A type 2 passes Dalmeny Junction signal box with a northbound freight heading for the Forth Bridge in 1971. The branch from South Queensferry came in behind the box and the line round to Winchburgh Ju ... |
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A campaigner, who wants St Andrews linked to the national rail network, has said interest from professional bodies has brought the line a step closer to reality. Following the report commissioned earlier this year by the St Andrews Rail Link group, known as Starlink, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport held an event to hear about the £70m proposals. If the group's 23-year campaign was to see the station become a reality, the town would be attached to the East Coast Main Line between Leuchars and Cupar with a 7.7km diversion in place. Trains would be able to run to Dundee in 20 minutes, and Edinburgh in around one hour and 20 minutes.
(Permalink) Leuchars St Andrews Starlink Leuchars: Formerly Leuchars Junction, the current Leuchars Station is seen looking north on 19 May 2005. The infilled bay was used by trains serving St Andrews and the Fife coast route. The St Andrews branch fi ... St Andrews [2nd]: View east towards the site of St Andrews station (1887-1969) in the spring of 2011. Station road on the left now leads up to the recently rebuilt bus station, with Hope Park Church spire standing in t ... St Andrews [2nd]: The western approach to St Andrews station seen from a DMU in the early summer of 1967, two years before the line's closure. This was the second St Andrews station with the first, a short distance nor ... |
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A talk on the above will take place in Dundee on 20 November, to which all are welcome. For details see panel alongside.
(Permalink) St Andrews  St Andrews Rail Link: CILT talk on 20 November - details. |
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Supporters of the campaign to reconnect St Andrews to the rail network have been buoyed by the response to a recently published feasability study, which is currently out for public consultation.
(Permalink) St Andrews Guard Bridge Viaduct: Surviving piers of the railway bridge that carried the line between Leuchars Junction and St Andrews over the River Eden. Seen here in May 2005 looking north west across the estuary back towards Leuch ...  Buchanan Street: Stanier Black 5 no 45468, immaculately turned out by St Rollox shed, takes the 'Fife Coast Express' out of Buchanan Street in 1959 at the commencement of its cross-country journey to St Andrews ... St Andrews [2nd]: The western approach to St Andrews station seen from a DMU in the early summer of 1967, two years before the line's closure. This was the second St Andrews station with the first, a short distance nor ... |
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Campaigners calling for the restoration of a direct rail link to St Andrews have welcomed a new report suggesting the line could be reinstated for £76m.
Lobby group Starlink have said that an hourly service, introduced between the Fife town and Edinburgh, would pay for itself. They maintain that a rail link would help boost the town's tourism numbers and reduce traffic on the A91. The line to St Andrews was closed in 1969. (Permalink) A91 St Andrews Leuchars: Formerly Leuchars Junction, the current Leuchars Station is seen looking north on 19 May 2005. The infilled bay was used by trains serving St Andrews and the Fife coast route. The St Andrews branch fi ... St Andrews [2nd]: J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junct ... St Andrews [2nd]: The western approach to St Andrews station seen from a DMU in the early summer of 1967, two years before the line's closure. This was the second St Andrews station with the first, a short distance nor ... |
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The Open golf championship at St Andrews brought an estimated £40m of added value to the Fife economy last year, and a further £60m to Scotland.
So, what does it have in common with the freight transport of 28 million cases of whisky, a few miles further south in Leven? (Permalink) Levenmouth St Andrews |
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The latest survey carried out by the Starlink campaign has revealed more support for a rail service to St Andrews. At last week's Friends of the Byre production of 'Murder on the Fife Coast Express,' set in the 1950s, Starlink was one of the local organisations invited to exhibit in the foyer of the Byre Theatre.
(Permalink) St Andrews Buchanan Street: Stanier Black 5 no 45468, immaculately turned out by St Rollox shed, takes the 'Fife Coast Express' out of Buchanan Street in 1959 at the commencement of its cross-country journey to St Andrews ... |
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A campaign group calling for a train station for St Andrews courts the views of Fife residents.
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