Burntisland railway station

Burntisland National Rail
Location
Place Burntisland
Local authority Fife
Coordinates 56°03′26″N 3°14′01″W / 56.0573°N 3.2335°W / 56.0573; -3.2335Coordinates: 56°03′26″N 3°14′01″W / 56.0573°N 3.2335°W / 56.0573; -3.2335
Grid reference NT232856
Operations
Station code BTS
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11 Decrease 0.192 million
2011/12 Increase 0.201 million
2012/13 Decrease 0.194 million
2013/14 Increase 0.206 million
2014/15 Increase 0.222 million
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Burntisland from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Burntisland railway station is a railway station in the town of Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line.

History

The Edinburgh and Northern Railway chose Burntisland as its southern terminus, opening its main line north across Fife to Lindores & Cupar (branch line) in September 1847 (these were subsequently extended to Hilton Junction, near Perth and Tayport by the following summer).

From here a ferry service ran across the River Forth to Granton in the northern suburbs of Edinburgh (from where trains could be taken to various destinations across central and southwest Scotland). The present station here though dates from 1890, when the Forth Rail Bridge and associated connecting lines were opened to provide a direct route across the Forth estuary to Edinburgh Waverley.[1]

Accidents and incidents

On 14 April 1914, an express passenger train hauled by NBR H class locomotive 872 Auld Reekie was in collision with a freight train that was being shunted. The cause of the accident was an error by the signalman.[2] Two people were killed.

Services

Two trains per hour call at the station off peak (Mon-Sat), running southbound to Inverkeithing and Edinburgh and northbound to Kirkcaldy & Glenrothes with Thornton. One of the latter then continues along the western side of the Fire Circle line back to Edinburgh via Cowdenbeath. Evenings see an hourly service, with some through trains beyond Kirkcaldy to Dundee or Perth, whilst on Sundays an hourly service operates each way around the Circle.[3]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Aberdour   Abellio ScotRail
Fife Circle Line
   Kinghorn

References

  1. ↑ "Edinburgh & Northern Railway" Crawford, Ewan, Railscot; Retrieved 18 July 2016
  2. ↑ Hoole, Ken (1983). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 4. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. 30. ISBN 0 906899 07 9.
  3. ↑ Table 242 National Rail timetable, May 2016
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