Dalgety Bay railway station

Dalgety Bay
Location
Place	Dalgety Bay
Local authority	Fife
Coordinates	56°02′32″N 3°22′02″W / 56.0423°N 3.3672°WCoordinates: 56°02′32″N 3°22′02″W / 56.0423°N 3.3672°W
Grid reference	NT149841
Operations
Station code	DAG
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.239 million
2005/06	0.247 million
2006/07	0.269 million
2007/08	0.271 million
2008/09	0.273 million
2009/10	0.248 million
2010/11	0.247 million
2011/12	0.264 million
2012/13	0.268 million
2013/14	0.284 million
2014/15	0.308 million
History
2 March 1942	Donibristle Halt opened close to Dalgety Bay[1]
1959	Donibristle Halt closed
27 March 1998	Dalgety bay opened[2]
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dalgety Bay from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Dalgety Bay railway station serves the town of Dalgety Bay in Fife, Scotland. Lying on the Fife Circle and Edinburgh to Aberdeen lines, it is managed by Abellio ScotRail. It is currently the nearest railway station to Fordell Firs Camp site, the Scottish national headquarters for The Scout Association in Scotland, part of Scouting in Scotland.

History

The station is built close to the former station Donibristle Halt, opened in 1942 ^[3] (closed 1959) as part of the Aberdour Line by the North British Railway, and named for the Earl of Moray's estate of Donibristle on which it stood.

Facilities

From 2015 onwards, the station has two platforms and is unstaffed. The station is equipped with shelters on both platforms, with a self-service ticket machine located in the shelter in Platform 1. A footbridge connects the platforms.

Services

2008

Services are given in National Rail Timetable 242. There is a basic 30 minute service, with alternate trains serving Kirkcaldy and the Fife Circle route via Cowdenbeath to Edinburgh. Kirkcaldy services are periodically extended to Dundee.^[4]

References

Notes

1. http://www.nbrstudygroup.co.uk/nbr/pdfs/station_list.pdf
2. "New £1.5 million railway station puts public transport links on track". Retrieved 2008-02-25.
3. http://www.nbrstudygroup.co.uk/nbr/pdfs/station_list.pdf
4. "Edinburgh ↔ Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Markinch" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-02-25.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.