Oakley (Fife) railway station served the village of

Oakley, Fife Oakley is a village in Fife, Scotland located at the mutual border of Carnock and Culross parishes, Fife, west of Dunfermline on the A907. The village was built in connection with the Forth or Oakley Ironworks (1846), now all gone along wit ...

, Scotland from 1850 to 1986 on the

Stirling and Dunfermline Railway The Stirling and Dunfermline Railway was a railway in Scotland connecting Stirling and Dunfermline. It was planned by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway to get access to the mineral deposits on the line of route, but also as a tactical measure t ...

History

The station opened as Oakley on 28 August 1850 by the

North British Railway The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1844, with the intention of linking with English railways at Berwick. The line opened in 1846, and from the outset the company followe ...

. To the west was the goods yard and the private line to Forth Iron Works and Comrie Colliery. The station's name was changed to Oakley (Fife) on 9 March 1925. The goods yard was replaced in the 1950s with exchange sidings being laid. A signal box opened in 1954. The station closed to passengers on 7 October 1968.M E Quick, ''Railway Passenger Stations in England Scotland and Wales—A Chronology'', The Railway and Canal Historical Society, 2002, p. 307

References

Disused railway stations in Fife Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1968 Beeching closures in Scotland Former North British Railway stations 1850 establishments in Scotland 1986 disestablishments in Scotland {{Fife-railstation-stub