Disused railway lines and closed stations in Fife

221 miles of disused railway
58 closed stations
21 stations open today
49 named lost lines

Fife has 221 miles of disused railway and 58 closed stations, against 21 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.8 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the East of Fife Line, with 29 miles of its route inside Fife.

See Fife’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 221 miles of lost railway in Fife break down as 121 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 80 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 20 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Fife

49 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Fife; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
East of Fife Line	29
Glenburnie Junction to St Fort (North Fife) Branch	13
East Fife Central Railway	11
Fife & Kinross Section	11
Tayport Line	10
West Fife Way	7.6
Auchtertool Branch	7.3
West of Fife Mineral Railway	7.0
Thornton Yard	5.7
St Andrews Railway	4.8
Wemyss and Buckhaven Branch	4.7
Westfield Branch	4.5
Rosyth Royal Dockyard Branch	3.9
Charlestown Branch	3.4
West Fife Branch	3.2
Newport Railway	3.0
Lochore Branch	3.0
Cults Lime Works Railway	2.5
Longannet Power Station	2.1
Boblingen Way	2.0
Glencraig Colliery to Glencraig Junction	2.0
Kinneddar Branch	2.0
Cowdenbeath Junction to Bridge of Earn Line	1.9
Blairadam Branch	1.7
Lumphinnans & Kelty	1.6
Bowhill Washery Branch	1.3
Nature Trail	1.1
North Queensferry Branch	1.1
Lochhead Branch	0.9
Tay Bridge	0.9
Tayport Station	0.9
Elgin Tramway	0.9
St Andrews Links Goods Station	0.9
Fordell Railway	0.8
Leuchars Down Sidings	0.8
Townhill Junction to Lilliehill South Junction	0.8
Donibristle Colliery Siding	0.7
Townhill Tramroad	0.7
Kincardine Power Station	0.7
Halbeath Railway	0.6

And 9 shorter stretches: Cowdenbeath Old Branch, Limpetness Loop, Kirkaldy Harbour Branch, Methil Docks Branch, Guardbridge Railway Station, Newport-on-Tay East Station, Minto Colliery, Colton Pit and Dalbeath Colliery.

Closed railway stations in Fife

All 58 closed and former stations in Fife, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Fife

21 stations in Fife still have a train service. The busiest are Inverkeithing (953,162 a year), Kirkcaldy (856,236 a year), Leuchars (584,032 a year), Dunfermline City (569,702 a year) and Markinch (235,210 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Dundee, Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire, East Lothian, Falkirk, Perth and Kinross and North Lanarkshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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