Location type

Station

Name and dates

Kirkcaldy (1847-)

Opened on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway.

Open on the Fife Circle.
Open on the Edinburgh to Perth.
Open on the Edinburgh to Dundee.

Description

This is a two platform station equipped with large carparks. The main station building is on the southbound platform. The station is on the west side of the town.

The station formerly had a bay at the south end of the south bound platform. The main station was on the southbound platform with another large building on the northbound. The platforms were canopied.

To the north of the station was a goods yard on either side of the line - on the west side sidings and loading banks approached from the north and on the east side two goods sheds, approached from the south.

The signal box was at the north end of the northbound platform. This had been replaced in 1903, probably with the enlargement of the goods yard and laying out of a loop serving the yard between the station and Kirkcaldy Harbour junction.

The signal box closed in 1980, replaced by a temporary panel box ('Kirkcaldy' actually at Sinclairtown). This was in the run up to the opening of the Edinburgh Signalling Centre. This temporary panel box closed after a few months.

There were many linoleum works in Kirkcaldy including, on the west side and from south to north, the Abbotshall Linoleum Works, Forth Works [Linoleum] , Caledonia Works [Linoleum] and Walton Inlaid Linoleum Works and to the north east to the National Works [Linoleum] .

There was also a rail served flour mill just south of the National works.

To the north was Kirkcaldy Harbour Junction for Kirkcaldy Harbour and to the south Invertiel Viaduct and Invertiel Junction for the Kirkcaldy District Railway (North British Railway).

The Artline - Art and Heritage on the railway in Fife

Local

The Kirkcaldy Galleries are very close by on the east side of the station.

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