The Fife Circle Line
The Fife Circle Line links 16 stations, with a top line speed of 100 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 84 miles, counting every running line |
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| Stations | 16 |
| Top line speed | 100 mph |
| Passengers a year | 4.2 million entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | ECN2, CWH1, CWH3, CWH2 |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Edinburgh Gateway254,676 a year
- South Gyle220,542 a year
- North Queensferry121,520 a year
- Inverkeithing953,162 a year
- Dalgety Bay229,602 a year
- Aberdour116,962 a year
- Rosyth198,140 a year
- Burntisland206,194 a year
- Dunfermline City569,702 a year
- Dunfermline Queen Margaret129,910 a year
- Kinghorn97,662 a year
- Cowdenbeath121,674 a year
- Kirkcaldy856,236 a year
- Lochgelly57,418 a year
- Cardenden43,222 a year
- Glenrothes with Thornton50,756 a year
The busiest station on the line is Inverkeithing, 953,162 entries and exits a year and 560th busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the Fife Circle Line on 11 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. All of them run whatever the traffic.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.
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