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| General information | |||||
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| Location | Dalgety Bay,Fife Scotland | ||||
| Coordinates | 56°02′32″N3°22′02″W / 56.0423°N 3.3672°W /56.0423; -3.3672 | ||||
| Grid reference | NT149841 | ||||
| Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | DAG | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 2 March 1942 | Donibristle Halt opened close to Dalgety Bay[2] | ||||
| 1959 | Donibristle Halt closed | ||||
| 27 March 1998 | Dalgety Bay opened[3] | ||||
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Dalgety Bay railway station serves the town ofDalgety Bay inFife,Scotland. Lying on theFife Circle andEdinburghーDundee lines, it is managed byScotRail. It is currently the nearest railway station to Fordell Firs Camp site, the Scottish national headquarters for The Scout Association in Scotland, part ofScouting in Scotland.
The station is built close to the former stationDonibristle Halt, opened in 1942[4] (closed 1959) as part of the Aberdour Line by theNorth British Railway, and named for the Earl of Moray's estate ofDonibristle on which it stood. It is also close to the line of the formerFordell Railway, which operated from 1770 to 1946 and passed below the main line to the east of the station.
The station is unstaffed and has two platforms, connected by a footbridge which is accessible via ramps or steps. The station is equipped with shelters on both platforms, with a self-serviceticket machine located in the shelter on Platform 1.
Services are given in National Rail Timetable 242. There is a basic 30 minute service, with alternate trains servingKirkcaldy and theFife Circle route viaCowdenbeath to Edinburgh. Kirkcaldy services are periodically extended to Dundee.[5]
The same 30-minute base service remains, but daytime trains all now run beyond Kirkcaldy toGlenrothes with Thornton northbound. One of the two terminates there, whilst the other returns to Edinburgh via Cowdenbeath. In the evening trains run hourly and mostly run to Dundee or Perth, whilst on Sundays they run to Glenrothes and back to Edinburgh.[6]
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