Lochgelly railway station

Lochgelly

Scottish Gaelic: Loch Geallaidh[1]
National Rail
General information
LocationLochgelly, Fife
Scotland
Coordinates56°08′06″N 3°18′49″W / 56.1349°N 3.3135°W / 56.1349; -3.3135
Grid referenceNT185943
Managed byScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeLCG
Passengers
2018/19Decrease 62,038
2019/20Decrease 55,306
2020/21Decrease 6,014
2021/22Increase 36,380
2022/23Increase 41,176
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Lochgelly railway station is a railway station in Lochgelly, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line, 25 miles (40 km) north of Edinburgh Waverley.

Lochgelly station is on the end of the town towards Ballingry.

The station can be accessed via a ramp from the small car park up to the Edinburgh platform. To access the north bound platform, passengers must cross the road from the car park and climb a flight of stairs.

This station is unmanned and has no ticket vending facilities. Passengers boarding here must buy their tickets from staff on the train.

There is a public phone in the waiting shelter on the Kirkcaldy platform. There are regular bus services to the town centre.

Services

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There is generally an hourly service in each direction along the Fife Circle Line westbound towards Dunfermline City or eastbound towards Kirkcaldy.

Daytime services in both directions begin and end at Edinburgh Waverley, apart from a small number of peak trains that start or terminate at Cardenden. Evening trains do not travel beyond Glenrothes with Thornton northbound.

On Sundays there is also an hourly service in each direction.[2]

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Cowdenbeath   ScotRail
Fife Circle Line
  Cardenden

References

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  1. ^ Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  2. ^ GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 242
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