Dalgety Bay railway station serves the town of Dalgety Bay

Dalgety Bay

Dalgety Bay Today, Dalgety Bay functions largely as a dormitory suburb of Edinburgh and to the rest of Fife. While the architecture of the town reflects construction by volume housebuilders, the town is a regular winner of the Best Kept Small Town title...

 in Fife

Fife

Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. Lying on the Fife Circle

Fife Circle Line

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 and Edinburgh to Aberdeen

Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line

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 lines, it is managed by First ScotRail

First ScotRail

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. It is currently the nearest railway station to Fordell Firs Camp site, the Scottish national headquarters for The Scout Association in Scotland, part of Scouting in Scotland

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.

History

The station is built close to the former station Donibristle Halt, opened in 1890 as part of the Aberdour Line by the North British Railway

North British Railway

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, and named for the Earl of Moray's estate of Donibristle

Donibristle

Donibristle was a house and estate in Fife, Scotland, on the coast of the Firth of Forth. Only the wings of the house remain, within the modern settlement of Dalgety Bay: they are now protected as a category A listed building...

 on which it stood.

Facilities

In 2008, the station has two platforms and is unstaffed. The station is equipped with shelters on both platforms, with a self-service ticket machine

Ticket machine

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 located on the shelter in platform 1. A footbridge connects the platforms.

2008

Services are given in National Rail Timetable 242. There is a basic 30 minute service, with alternate trains serving Kirkcaldy

Kirkcaldy railway station

Kirkcaldy Railway Station is a railway station in the town of Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line and principal NXEC mainline, north east of . British Transport Police maintain a small office on Platform 1.The station is located on...

 and the Fife Circle route

Fife Circle Line

The Fife Circle is the local rail service north from Edinburgh. It links all the towns of south Fife and the coastal towns along the Firth of Forth before heading to Edinburgh.-Service:...

 via Cowdenbeath

Cowdenbeath railway station

Cowdenbeath railway station is a railway station in the town of Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line, 36 km north of ....

 to Edinburgh. Kirkcaldy services are periodically extended to Dundee.

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