Dunfermline City railway station

For other uses, see Dunfermline railway station (disambiguation).

Dunfermline City railway station (formerly Dunfermline Town) is a station in the city of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line, 17 miles (27 km) north of Edinburgh Waverley.

Dunfermline City Scottish Gaelic: Baile Dhùn Phàrlain
St Margaret's Drive entrance
General information
Location	Dunfermline, Fife Scotland
Coordinates	56.0682°N 3.4521°W / 56.0682; -3.4521
Grid reference	NT096870
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	DFE
History
Original company	Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
5 March 1890	Opened as Dunfermline Lower
1968	Renamed as Dunfermline
January 2000	Renamed as Dunfermline Town
3 October 2022	Renamed as Dunfermline City
Passengers
2018/19	0.651 million
2019/20	0.562 million
2020/21	72,732
2021/22	0.275 million
2022/23	0.353 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Railways in and around Dunfermline
Kincardine Line Stirling and Dunfermline Railway (ChR) Charlestown Torryburn Line Junction (ChR) Netherton Goods Charlestown Branch Jn (D&QR) Dunfermline Lower Dunfermline Upper (S&DR/E&NR) Townhill Junctions (D&QR) Rosyth Dunfermline Queen Margaret Halbeath (E&NR) Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Railways
ChR Charlestown Railway (NBR) D&QR Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway (NBR) E&NR Dunfermline Branch of Edinburgh and Northern Railway (NBR) KL Kincardine Line (NBR) S&DR Stirling and Dunfermline Railway (NBR)

History

The station was opened by the Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway on 1 November 1877, named Dunfermline, Comely Park. It was rebuilt in 1889, the Down (northbound) platform being extended eastwards with a new booking office building and a new Up (southbound platform) being provided; the extended facilities were brought into use on 5 March 1890, from which date the station was known as Dunfermline Lower in contradistinction to Dunfermline Upper on the line to Stirling. After the latter station was closed in 1968, the suffix was dropped and it became known as plain Dunfermline. During the 1970s and 1980s British Rail only ran a regular daytime service on the Dunfermline line between Edinburgh and as far as Cowdenbeath; Lochgelly & Cardenden were only served during the weekday business peaks, whilst the remainder of the route to Thornton Junction was freight-only (having been closed to passengers in 1969). In 1989 though, BR decided to restore the Fife circular.

In March 1998, Dalgety Bay opened, while two years later in 2000, a new station was opened in the expanding eastern suburbs of Dunfermline and given the name of Dunfermline Queen Margaret, after the nearby Queen Margaret Hospital. To prevent confusion following the opening of the nearby Dunfermline Queen Margaret in 2000, the station was again renamed to Dunfermline Town. Around the same time the frequency was improved to every 30mins to Edinburgh.

Following Dunfermline being granted city status, Jenny Gilruth, the Transport Minister, announced on 3 October 2022 that the station would be renamed to Dunfermline City.

Station facilities

The station can be accessed from St. Margaret's Drive. The station building is on the northbound platform. In the building is a ticket office, a toilet (accessed by key) and a kiosk. There is also a CCTV monitoring centre for stations in the east of Scotland and a taxi ordering office. There is a public phone at the entrance and there are waiting rooms on both platforms. The platforms are connected by a ramped subway, this providing an alternative access to the station from Woodmill Street on the south side. There is a taxi rank at the main entrance and station car parks on both sides of the railway. CCTV is in operation.

Train services

On Mondays to Saturdays during the daytime, there is generally a half-hourly service southbound to Edinburgh Waverley, and a half-hourly service northbound round the Fife Circle as far as Cowdenbeath, with one service continuing through Kirkcaldy, eventually coming back to Edinburgh Waverley. In the evenings the service is hourly (and terminates at Glenrothes with Thornton) There is also a daily service to and from Perth via Markinch.

In 2016 the Sunday frequency service was increased to hourly, from its previous 2 hourly service.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Rosyth		ScotRail Fife Circle Line		Dunfermline Queen Margaret
	Historical railways
Rosyth Line and station open		North British Railway Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway and Dunfermline Branch of E&NR		Halbeath Line open; station closed
		North British Railway Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway and Dunfermline Branch of E&NR		Dunfermline Upper Line and station closed
Cairneyhill Line open; station closed		North British Railway Kincardine Line		Terminus
Charlestown (KL) Line and station closed		North British Railway Charlestown Railway		Terminus

References

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• RAILSCOT on Charlestown Railway
• RAILSCOT on Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway
• RAILSCOT on Dunfermline Branch of Edinburgh and Northern Railway
• Dunfermline Town station on navigable OS map
• Video footage of Dunfermline Town railway station