Glenrothes with Thornton train station

You can reach 31 stations directly from Glenrothes with Thornton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Inverkeithing, with 119 trains a day.

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31 direct destinations
2,044th busiest in Britain
Unstaffed
Step-free in part
48 parking spaces
5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Glenrothes with Thornton

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Inverkeithing	119	109	32
Edinburgh Waverley	118	109	32
Edinburgh Gateway	118	109	32
Haymarket	118	109	32
Cowdenbeath	116	108	30
Dunfermline City	116	108	30
Dunfermline Queen Margaret	116	108	30
Rosyth	116	108	30
Cardenden	114	108	30
Lochgelly	114	108	30
South Gyle	114	106	32
Dalmeny	112	104	32
North Queensferry	112	104	32
Cameron Bridge	68	70	28
Leven	68	70	28
Markinch	39	37	3
Ladybank	38	36	3
Perth	37	36	2
Burntisland	2	0	1
Cupar	2	1	1
Dalgety Bay	2	0	1
Dundee	2	1	1
Kirkcaldy	2	0	1
Leuchars	2	1	1
Aberdour	1	0	1
Camelon	1	0	0
Falkirk Grahamston	1	0	0
Glasgow Queen Street	1	0	0
Kinghorn	1	0	1
Linlithgow	1	0	0
Polmont	1	0	0

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Lines serving Glenrothes with Thornton

Glenrothes with Thornton is on the Fife Circle Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Glenrothes with Thornton station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Glenrothes with Thornton 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 Glenrothes with Thornton station is

50,756 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,044th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Glenrothes with Thornton and Edinburgh than any other pair: 26,048 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.