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A fresh bid has been made to improve access at Burntisland Station.
(Permalink) Accessibility Burntisland  Burntisland: EWS 67 025 rolls into Burntisland on 29 May 2009 with the evening EWS-stocked Fife Outer Circle service.  Burntisland: Renovation of the 1847 terminus building at Burntisland is complete. It has been sympathetically restored and converted into office suites. Behind the scenes however things look a little less formal. ... |
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Engineers have fixed the fault that had been found between Aberdour and Burntisland stations.
(Permalink) Aberdour Burntisland |
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Scotrail has been instructed to review Fife Circle services following demand for 'much-needed improvements'. Annabelle Ewing, SNP MSP for the Cowdenbeath constituency, which includes Rosyth, Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay, hopes that 'lessons are learned from current performance' during the next phase of the operator's 'Fit for the Future' scheme.
(Permalink) Aberdour Burntisland Cardenden Cowdenbeath Dalgety Bay Dunfermline City Dunfermline Queen Margaret Fife Circle Glenrothes with Thornton Inverkeithing Kinghorn Kirkcaldy Lochgelly Rosyth  Burntisland: The sharp curve at Burntisland is very noticeable in this view along the Up platform as a pair of 158s, working a clockwise Fife Circle service, call on 5th August 2021.  Inverkeithing: A class 170 for Edinburgh from the Dunfermline line calls at Inverkeithing on 19 May 2021. The HST seemed to be held up for an unnecessary amount of time to let it into the station, but I'm sure they ...  Dunfermline Queen Margaret: A frosty morning at Dunfermline, Queen Margaret on 20 January 2023 as the 1001 service to Edinburgh Waverley (0956 ex-Cowdenbeath) arrives at platform 1. |
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Ever wondered what Burntisland's station and docks looked like back in the 1880s?
(Permalink) Burntisland Burntisland 1883 Model Model Railway  Burntisland [1st]: The East of Scotland 4mm Group's model of Burntisland (Old) at Model Rail Scotland, Glasgow, on 22 February 2014. |
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ScotRail is looking at long-term solutions to provide adequate shelter facilities at Burntisland after vandals badly damaged the existing structure.
(Permalink) Anti-social behaviour Burntisland Crime  Burntisland: Waiting room on the tightly curved northbound platform at Burntisland, masonry built. |
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Commuters faced disruption to train services in Fife on Wednesday after the railway line near Burntisland was closed due to a potentially 'unsafe' wall.
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A Fife artist has opened his art studio to the public “ in a refurbished room at Burntisland railway station.
(Permalink) Art Artist Burntisland Leo Du Feu |
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Train services through Fife faced disruption after a lorry hit a bridge in Burntisland.
(Permalink) Bridge Strike Burntisland |
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Fifers have been warned not to trespass on the rail line at Burntisland transport police revealed 19 incidents in the past year.
(Permalink) Burntisland Trespass |
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The National Transport Trust has awarded Burntislands 'floating railway' train station a prestigious Red Wheel to commemorate its achievement as the first roll-on/ roll-off seagoing train ferry in the world.
(Permalink) Burntisland Granton Thomas Bouch  Burntisland [1st]: At the invitation of Ian Archibald from the Burntisland Heritage Trust, the National Transport Trust's latest Red Wheel denoting a site of transport heritage was unveiled on 16th December 2020 by Vice ... |
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Part of Burntisland's heritage is to be recorded with a new plaque.
The National Transport Trust wants to put a red plaque at the Old Station House in Forth Place to commemorate its role as a key transport route between Fife and Edinburgh before the Forth Rail bridge was built. It has applied to Fife Council for permission to add it to the front of the building. (Permalink) Burntisland Granton National Transport Trust Thomas Bouch Train ferry  Burntisland New Pier: The passenger paddle steamer 'William Muir' enjoyed a long service between 1879 and 1937. Introduced on the Granton-Burntisland with the increase in traffic after the opening of the first Tay Bridge s ...  Burntisland New Pier: The Burntisland Ferry Booking Office in 1973, demolished a few years later to make way for a short-lived hovercraft operation. The lettering on the canopy reads GRANTON - BURNTISLAND FERRY - BOOKING O ...  Burntisland [1st]: The Edinburgh and Northern 1847 terminus at Burntisland which linked with the train ferry to Granton. All doors and windows are now boarded up, March 2007. |
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The railway line through Burntisland has reopened this afternoon after flooding caused a closure earlier today.
(Permalink) Burntisland Flood |
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