Cardenden train station
You can reach 18 stations directly from Cardenden on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Cowdenbeath, with 114 trains a day.
- 18 direct destinations
- 2,095th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free in part
- 13 parking spaces
- 3 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Cardenden
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cowdenbeath | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Dunfermline City | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Dunfermline Queen Margaret | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Edinburgh Waverley | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Edinburgh Gateway | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Glenrothes with Thornton | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Haymarket | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Inverkeithing | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Rosyth | 114 | 108 | 30 |
| Lochgelly | 113 | 108 | 30 |
| South Gyle | 111 | 106 | 30 |
| Dalmeny | 109 | 104 | 30 |
| North Queensferry | 109 | 104 | 30 |
| Cameron Bridge | 68 | 70 | 28 |
| Leven | 68 | 70 | 28 |
| Markinch | 37 | 36 | 2 |
| Perth | 37 | 36 | 2 |
| Ladybank | 36 | 35 | 2 |
Lines serving Cardenden
Cardenden is on the Fife Circle Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Cardenden station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Cardenden station on 5 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 1 path on the Wednesday, no paths 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
How busy Cardenden station is
43,222 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,095th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Cardenden and Edinburgh than any other pair: 16,858 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Nearest other stations
- Lochgelly 2.1 miles
- Cowdenbeath 3.8 miles
- Kirkcaldy 4.1 miles
- Glenrothes with Thornton 4.8 miles
- Burntisland 5.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Cardenden, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Cowdenbeath Old · 3.9 miles
- Kelty · 4.0 miles
- Leslie · 4.3 miles
- Sinclairtown · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at Cardenden station
Cardenden is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Waiting room
Parking at Cardenden station
- Station Car Park 13 spaces, 2 accessible
Cycle parking: 5 spaces.
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Cardenden station
Cardenden station is in Fife, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
The nearest motorway junction is M90 J4 (Cocklaw Junction), 5.2 miles west.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Cardenden station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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