Location type

Station

Name and dates

Glenrothes with Thornton (1992-)

Station code: GLT National Rail ScotRail
Where: Fife, Scotland
Opened on the Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway).
Open on the Fife Circle.

Description

This is a modern two platform station. On the north side is the station car park, once the site of sidings approached by reversal from Thornton West Junction [1st].

Despite appearances, this is not a conventional two platform station and the two platforms are on separate lines. The north platform is on the curve from Thornton West Junction to Thornton North Junction and the south platform is on the Thornton West Junction to Thornton South Junction curve. Thornton West Junction is to the immediate west of the station.

Thornton Shed [2nd] was to the west of the station, the original Thornton West Junction [1st] was to the east of the station. Thornton Wagon Works were to the south of the station.

In terms of the local village of Thornton it replaces the former Thronton Junction station, although unlike that station it is not on the main line from Edinburgh Waverley to Dundee and Aberdeen..

Tags

Station 09/06/2019

Nearby stations Thornton Junction Thornton Junction [W&BR] West Wemyss Dysart Sinclairtown [2nd] Sinclairtown [1st] Markinch Wemyss Castle Kirkcaldy Leslie Cameron Bridge Buckhaven Cardenden Methil Falkland Road	Thornton Wagon Works Thornton West Junction Fife Railway Wagon Works Thornton West Junction [1st] Thornton Shed [1st] Thornton South Junction Thornton Shed [2nd] Rothes Pit Thornton East Junction Thornton North Junction Randolph Siding Balgonie Colliery Lochtyside Pit Thornton North Signal Box [2nd] Dysart Colliery Randolph Pit Balgonie Colliery Julian Pit
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.