Kirkcaldy train station

You can reach 12 stations directly from Kirkcaldy on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Aberdour, with 1 train a day.

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• 12 direct destinations
• 612th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 594 parking spaces
• 13 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Kirkcaldy

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

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Lines serving Kirkcaldy

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

Freight through Kirkcaldy station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Kirkcaldy station on 6 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 1 path 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Kirkcaldy station is

856,236 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 612th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 19,552 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh than any other pair: 379,590 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.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Kirkcaldy gains 51 destinations including Dunbar, Alnmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Leuchars, Cupar, Springfield.

Nearest other stations

• Kinghorn 3.0 miles
• Glenrothes with Thornton 3.6 miles
• Cardenden 4.1 miles
• Burntisland 4.6 miles
• Lochgelly 5.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Kirkcaldy, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Sinclairtown · 1.3 miles
• Dysart railway station, Fife · 1.9 miles
• West Wemyss · 3.9 miles
• Thornton Junction · 4.0 miles

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Facilities at Kirkcaldy station

Kirkcaldy is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 19:00 · Saturday: 06:30 to 19:00 · Sunday: 08:00 to 19:15

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Kirkcaldy station

• Station Car Park 594 spaces, 15 accessible
  free

Cycle parking: 20 spaces (lockers).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 2 September 2026.

Getting to Kirkcaldy station

Kirkcaldy station is in Fife, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.

The nearest motorway junction is M90 J4 (Cocklaw Junction), 8.7 miles west.

13 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being College of Nursing.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Kirkcaldy 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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