Date: 04/10/2022

The Open golf tournament should not return to St Andrews until the town is reconnected to the national rail network.

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St Andrews 'should not have The Open back' until railway link is built, say campaigners

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The Open golf tournament should not return to St Andrews until the town is reconnected to the national rail network. That's according to veteran rail

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The gateway to St Andrews is the dismantled railway bridge that carried the line over the A91 road at the western edge of the town, seen here in May 2011. Hard to imagine the 'Fife Coast Express' see image [[26205]] in days gone by, slowing as it crossed the bridge prior to pulling up at its ultimate destination. The former station (closed January 1969), St Andrews second, was located off to the right and is now a car park.
Location: St Andrews [2nd]
Company: St Andrews Junction Line (North British Railway)
30/05/2011 Andrew Wilson

St Andrews station was in a somewhat cramped location, but the telephoto lens exaggerates the effect in this photograph, taken from a northbound Fife Coast diesel unit. A Metro Cammell DMU can be seen in the southbound platform. The picture is believed to date from 1963.
Location: St Andrews [2nd]
Company: St Andrews Junction Line (North British Railway)
//1963 Brian Haslehust

Surviving piers of the railway bridge that carried the line between Leuchars Junction and St Andrews over the River Eden. Seen here in May 2005 looking north west across the estuary back towards Leuchars.
Location: Guard Bridge Viaduct
Company: St Andrews Railway
19/05/2005 John Furnevel

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