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A project to clear vegetation near Dalgety Bay station has helped improve performance on Scotland's Railway.
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Restoration work on a Dalgety Bay footbridge is set to be carried out this financial year.
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Network Rail engineers must ensure the bridge's safety before services can cross again.
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Safety assurances have been made by Network Rail after a survey of its Dalgety Bay footbridge.
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Dalgety Bay: A very tatty VTEC-liveried 43290 brings up the rear of the NMT on a Derby - Edinburgh - Aberdeen- Slateford trip on 25 April 2023.
Bill Roberton 25/04/2023

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.
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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.
Mark Bartlett 05/08/2021


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 ...
David Panton 19/05/2021


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.
Andy Furnevel 20/01/2023

An amber weather warning in eastern Scotland has been extended with flooding leading to school closures and disruption on roads and railways.
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Rail services have been hit by the weather this morning. The East Coast Line is flooded at Dalgety Bay. The Dundee-Arbroath service is suspended along with services between Aberdeen and Inverurie. ScotRail has speed restrictions on many routes.
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A re-planting project at Dalgety Bay Railway Station is now complete after Autumn leaves falling on the line affected safety and performance on the tracks.
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Network Rail has successfully completed a project to cut trees and vegetation from land adjacent to the railway at Dalgety Bay station.
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Measures are to be carried out at Dalgety Bay railway station to compensate for the removal of trackside trees.
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Network Rail has released details of the environmental measures taken at Dalgety Bay to compensate for the removal of trees from land next to the railway.
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Dalgety Bay: 170427 nears Dalgety Bay with the 13.29 from Edinburgh to Aberdeen on 14 December 2021. The low embankment on the right was raised to protect the gentlefolk of Fordell House from the horrifying sight ...
Bill Roberton 14/12/2021

Trees next to a Fife train station are being cut down.
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Network Rail will carry out tree and vegetation management around Dalgety Bay station from September 27 until December.
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Donibristle Platform: DRS 68006 coasts down Donibristle bank with the evening Cardenden - Mossend empty stock working. Recent vegetation clearance has opened up this view.
Bill Roberton 26/07/2018

A £250,000 contract has been awarded to a global firm with a manufacturing base in Dalgety Bay.
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Mallaig Pier: CalMac ferry MV Loch Nevis, seen moored at the inner harbour berth in Mallaig on 18th June 2013. This ferry serves the small islands of Eigg, Muck and Rum. It is shown as having an Azipod propu ...
David Pesterfield 18/06/2013

Motorists are facing almost three months of diversions on busy Fife road close to Aberdour to allow for rail bridge repairs.
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Aberdour: Intercity-liveried 37685 crosses the B9157 bridge west of Aberdour with a mixed train of empty starch and CO2 tanks from Thornton Yard to Mossend in the late 1990s. Repairs to this bridge are required ...
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Network Rail want to cut down trees next to Dalgety Bay Railway Station to prevent delays caused by leaves on the line.

It's part of a national project to tackle Autumn-related issues which cause disruption to train services every year and pose a 'serious risk to rail safety'.

The proposals would affect a stretch around 1km and work would be carried out from August to December.
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Dalgety Bay: 800107 passes Dalgety Bay with the 07.08 from Leeds to Aberdeen on 18th May 2020. This is the first LNER service north of Edinburgh since curtailment due to the COVID 19 emergency. Photographed inci ...
Bill Roberton 18/05/2020


Dalgety Bay: 43177 nears Dalgety Bay station with an Aberdeen Clayhills ECS working on 11th May 2020. This was the first movement into the refurbished stabling sidings at Slateford Yard. and was photographed incid ...
Bill Roberton 11/05/2020

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