St Andrews Railway

Introduction

This line is closed. It probably should not have been closed as St Andrews is a town and to visit now involves a taxi or bus journey from the relatively nearby station of Leuchars. As many passengers approach from the south were the line to be rebuilt trains would have to make a reversal at Milton Junction [Leuchars].

The campaign to reinstate the railway to St Andrews is StARLink .






Dates

  /  /1851St Andrews Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
01/07/1852St Andrews Railway
Opened from Leuchars to St Andrews [1st].
01/07/1852Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Leuchars [1st] renamed Leuchars Junction on the opening of the St Andrews Railway.
31/12/1855Railway Clearing House
By this date, Cork and Bandon Railway, Crieff Junction Railway, Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, Dublin and Drogheda Railway, Forth and Clyde Junction Railway, Furness Railway, Great Southern and Western Railway, Irish South Eastern Railway, Killarney Junction Railway, Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway, Leven Railway, London and South Western Railway, London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, Monkland Railways, Monmouthshire Railway and Canal, Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, Norfolk Railway, North and South Western Junction Railway, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, Peebles Railway, Perth and Dunkeld Railway, Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, St Andrews Railway, Ulster and Dundalk Railway, Waterford and Kilkenny Railway and Waterford and Limerick Railway join.
01/08/1877St Andrews RailwayNorth British Railway
St Andrews Railway absorbed by North British Railway.
06/09/1965St Andrews Railway
Guard Bridge station closed.
20/06/1966St Andrews Railway
Guard Bridge to St Andrews [2nd] closed to freight.
04/01/1969St Andrews Railway
St Andrews [2nd] to Leuchars passenger trains withdrawn.
06/01/1969St Andrews Railway
Leuchars Junction to St Andrews [2nd] closed to passengers.
06/01/1969St Andrews Railway
Leuchars Junction to Guard Bridge closed to freight.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This was a four platform station. A bay existed on either side for the [St Andrews Railway] branch. To the south of the station was a small yard on the west side of the line. The main station building was on the southbound platform.
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Edinburgh and Northern Railway
View north at the site of the original Leuchars station in 1996. The station occupied the car park to the left (a bay) and the pavement (double track ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
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This is an island platform station which today is the closest to St Andrews. There is a car park on the east side of the station.
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Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
Leuchars box looking south to the station in 1996. ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
Local primary school pupils have helped turn their local station into an art gallery, thanks to the ScotRail station adopters at Leuchars.
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ScotRail /11/2019
Leuchars, looking south, seen from 170418 from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley, on the evening of 22nd July 2017. Once the junction for the Fife Coast ...
David Bosher 22/07/2017
Under construction at Leuchars - a new Caledonian Sleeper lounge. ...
John Yellowlees 24/03/2018
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Site of Leuchars South Jct. The St Andrews and Fife Coast Line left to the left at the clearing. nb location was also known as Milton Jct. (sorry for ...
Brian Forbes 10/06/2007
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This was a single platform station with a typical North British Railway style building, a later addition. There was a passing loop to the north of the station. East of the station, over a level crossing, the line passed over the Guard Bridge Viaduct crossing the River Eden. By the level crossing was the ticket office in a stone built building. The signal box was on the south side of the ...

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Detail from an OS One Inch Scottish Popular map of 1945 showing part of North Fife. At top left there's St Fort (pronounced Sandford) and the junction ...
David Panton //1945
A DMU heading for St Andrews seems to be pondering the warning sign as it passes Guard Bridge in 1967. The station had closed two years earlier in ...
Bruce McCartney /09/1967
Class J37 No 64569 passing through Guard Bridge station en route to St Andrews in August 1965 with the RCTS Fife Coast Railtour. ...
G W Robin 28/08/1965
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This nine span single track plate girder viaduct has been demolished but the piers remain across the River Eden. The viaduct was on a curve where the line from Leuchars turned from south to east on its approach to St Andrews.
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Guard Bridge in 1996 looking east over the stumps of the piers which held up the curved single track viaduct. More remains of the viaduct than of the ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
The riverside scene at Guard Bridge has changed considerably in the last ten years See image 10871. Whilst the old railway viaduct piers are still ...
Mark Bartlett 24/08/2018
The east abutment of the Guard Bridge viaduct is still visible from the old road bridge although becoming quite overgrown. The last DMUs to St Andrews ...
Mark Bartlett 24/08/2018
Guard Bridge paper mill. Two rail connections from the St Andrews line crossed the main road, it was a main railfreight user until <I>Demon ...
Brian Forbes 10/06/2007
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The original terminus of the railway from Leuchars [1st] was alongside the St Andrews Links, to the north west of St Andrews itself. Also known as the Links station or Old station. The station was on the north west edge of the town.
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St Andrews Junction Line (North British Railway)