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.

There were many linoleum works in Kirkcaldy including the 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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