Lochgelly railway station

Lochgelly National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: Loch Geallaidh[1]
Location
Place Lochgelly
Local authority Fife
Coordinates 56°08′06″N 3°18′49″W / 56.1349°N 3.3135°W / 56.1349; -3.3135Coordinates: 56°08′06″N 3°18′49″W / 56.1349°N 3.3135°W / 56.1349; -3.3135
Grid reference NT185943
Operations
Station code LCG
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 61,740
2013/14 Increase 64,094
2014/15 Increase 70,650
2015/16 Increase 71,078
2016/17 Decrease 63,818
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lochgelly from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Lochgelly railway station is a railway station in Lochgelly, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio 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 Kirkcaldy 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

There is generally an hourly service in each direction along the Fife Circle Line westbound towards Dunfermline Town 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]

References

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


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