Cowdenbeath railway station served the town of

Cowdenbeath, Fife Cowdenbeath (; sco, Coudenbeith) is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland. It is north-east of Dunfermline and north of the capital, Edinburgh. The town grew up around the extensive coalfields of the area and became a police burgh in 18 ...

, Scotland, from 1848 to 1919 on the

Edinburgh and Northern Railway The Edinburgh and Northern Railway was a railway company authorised in 1845 to connect Edinburgh to both Perth and Dundee. It relied on ferry crossings of the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay, but despite those disadvantages it proved extreme ...

History

The station was opened on 4 September 1848 by the

. On the east side was the goods yard. The day before the newer Cowdenbeath station opened, the station's name was changed to Cowdenbeath Old on 1 June 1890. A deviation line opened to serve the new station in 1900, rendering this station useless, thus it closed on 31 March 1919, although it still remained open to miners.

References

Disused railway stations in Fife Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1919 1848 establishments in Scotland 1919 disestablishments in Scotland {{Fife-railstation-stub