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Rail passengers have been warned after a landslip in Fife has closed off a route for trains, with Network Rail Scotland stating it won't be able to reopen until an inspection in daylight.
(Permalink) Cupar Landslip Leuchars

A pay deal with train drivers has come too late to save many golf fans plans to travel to The Open in St Andrews this week, an MSP has said
(Permalink) 150th Open Championship Leuchars ScotRail St Andrews Timetabling

ScotRail is reminding golf fans travelling to The 150th Open Championship at St Andrews to consider their travel options and know what alternative transport is available due to the temporary timetable currently in place. The train operator is running a very limited number of trains to and from Leuchars, the nearest station to St Andrews, during The Open which starts today, Sunday, 10 July and ends on Sunday, 17 July 2022.
(Permalink) 150th Open Championship Leuchars ScotRail St Andrews Timetabling

ScotRail is urging golf fans travelling to the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews to consider their travel options and know what alternative transport is available. Due to the temporary timetable currently in place, ScotRail will be running a very limited number of trains to and from Leuchars, the nearest station to St Andrews, during The Open which runs from Sunday, 10 July to Sunday, 17 July 2022.
(Permalink) 150th Open Championship Leuchars ScotRail St Andrews

ScotRail managers have finally tackled a ticketing quirk preventing passengers traveling from Leuchars to Glasgow on one ticket.
(Permalink) Fares Leuchars Ticketing


Leuchars: A Dundee to Edinburgh service calls at Leuchars on 10 October 2018. Occupying the site of the south bay buffers is a new lounge for Caledonian Sleeper customers. It looks comfy and inviting but is onl ...
David Panton 10/10/2018

Reintroducing a rail link to St Andrews is just one of a range of exciting options members of the public are being encouraged to have their say on over the coming weeks.
(Permalink) Guardbridge Leuchars St Andrews


Leuchars Junction [2nd]: Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junction with RCTS Fife Coast Tour from Glasgow St Enoch.
G W Robin 28/08/1965


Guard Bridge Viaduct: 64569 takes a train over the River Eden estuary at Guard Bridge in August 1965 on its way from Leuchars Junction to St Andrews.
G W Robin 28/08/1965


St Andrews [2nd]: J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junct ...
G W Robin 28/08/1965

The main railway line between Edinburgh and Dundee is to close over two weekends this month for improvement works.
(Permalink) Engineering work Leuchars


Leuchars: A Dundee to Edinburgh service calls at Leuchars on 10 October 2018. Occupying the site of the south bay buffers is a new lounge for Caledonian Sleeper customers. It looks comfy and inviting but is onl ...
David Panton 10/10/2018


Leuchars: 170452 enters Leuchars with the 10.06 from Arbroath to Edinburgh on 30th September 2019. To the extreme left the overgrown sidings remain connected but to the right the stub of the RAF Leuchars sidin ...
Bill Roberton 30/09/2019

Network Rail will be carrying out overnight tree and vegetation management from August until the end of the year on the line between Cupar and Leuchars.
(Permalink) Cupar Leuchars Overnight tree cutting

An additional train will stop at Leuchars railway station in the mornings following pressure from locals.
(Permalink) Leuchars


Leuchars: A Dundee to Edinburgh service calls at Leuchars on 10 October 2018. Occupying the site of the south bay buffers is a new lounge for Caledonian Sleeper customers. It looks comfy and inviting but is onl ...
David Panton 10/10/2018

Rail passengers travelling between Dundee and Inverkeithing faced disruption earlier this morning after a train fault at Leuchars station.
(Permalink) Breakdown Dundee Inverkeithing Leuchars

A marked rise in the number of passengers using Leuchars railway station last year merely strengthens the case for train services to be restored to St Andrews, campaigners have claimed.
(Permalink) Leuchars St Andrews


St Andrews Bus Station: Rail information is available at St Andrews Bus Station. Will this be as good as it gets? (The St Andrews branch closed in 1969).
John Yellowlees 16/06/2017


Leuchars: 43168 brings up the rear of the 09.04 from Aberdeen to Edinburgh, calling at Leuchars on 30th September 2019.
Bill Roberton 30/09/2019


St Andrews [2nd]: J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junct ...
G W Robin 28/08/1965

Local primary school pupils have helped turn their local station into an art gallery, thanks to the ScotRail station adopters at Leuchars.

The Fife MS Society, who recently adopted Leuchars station, set local primary schools the task of creating artwork to be displayed within the station.

A prominent local artist, Linda Paton, took the winners pictures and transferred them onto boards, which have been attached to planters on the station platforms.

The planters were built by local charity Men's Shed St Andrews.
(Permalink) Leuchars


Leuchars: Local primary school pupils have helped turn their local station into an art gallery, thanks to the ScotRail station adopters at Leuchars. The Fife MS Society, who recently adopted Leuchars station ...
ScotRail /11/2019

Train services between Aberdeen and Edinburgh have been suspended due to a sinkhole on the line north of Leuchars.

Network Rail said that ballast stones had subsided as a result and engineers need to assess the depth of the subsidence.
(Permalink) Leuchars Sinkhole

Replacement buses are running between Dundee and Kirkcaldy after the collision leaves the train inoperable.
(Permalink) Animal on line Leuchars

A campaigner, who wants St Andrews linked to the national rail network, has said interest from professional bodies has brought the line a step closer to reality. Following the report commissioned earlier this year by the St Andrews Rail Link group, known as Starlink, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport held an event to hear about the £70m proposals. If the group's 23-year campaign was to see the station become a reality, the town would be attached to the East Coast Main Line between Leuchars and Cupar with a 7.7km diversion in place. Trains would be able to run to Dundee in 20 minutes, and Edinburgh in around one hour and 20 minutes.
(Permalink) Leuchars St Andrews Starlink


Leuchars: Formerly Leuchars Junction, the current Leuchars Station is seen looking north on 19 May 2005. The infilled bay was used by trains serving St Andrews and the Fife coast route. The St Andrews branch fi ...
John Furnevel 19/05/2005


St Andrews [2nd]: View east towards the site of St Andrews station (1887-1969) in the spring of 2011. Station road on the left now leads up to the recently rebuilt bus station, with Hope Park Church spire standing in t ...
Andrew Wilson 30/05/2011


St Andrews [2nd]: The western approach to St Andrews station seen from a DMU in the early summer of 1967, two years before the line's closure. This was the second St Andrews station with the first, a short distance nor ...
Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1967

Train operator First ScotRail lodges a planning application to build a wind turbine at Leuchars station in Fife.
(Permalink) Leuchars ScotRail Wind turbine


Leuchars: Leuchars box looking south to the station in 1996.
Ewan Crawford //1996


Leuchars: Local primary school pupils have helped turn their local station into an art gallery, thanks to the ScotRail station adopters at Leuchars. The Fife MS Society, who recently adopted Leuchars station ...
ScotRail /11/2019


Leuchars: Leuchars, looking south, seen from 170418 from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley, on the evening of 22nd July 2017. Once the junction for the Fife Coast line via St. Andrews (which surely deserves to hav ...
David Bosher 22/07/2017

Latest addition to the ScotRail fleet, SPT Turbostar 170474, takes part in Leuchars Airshow specials.
(Permalink) Class 170 Leuchars Leuchars Airshow ScotRail

Three more stations linked to scheme designed to make railway stations safer. Stations; Dyce, Arbroath, Leuchars.
(Permalink) Arbroath CCTV Dyce Leuchars

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