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Dalgety Bay Dalgety Bay () is a coastal town and parish in Fife, Scotland. According to Fife Council, the town is home to , making this the eighth-largest place in Fife. The civil parish has a population of 10,777 (in 2011).Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS ...

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Dalgety Bay railway station serves the town of

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. It is currently the nearest railway station to Fordell Firs Camp site, the Scottish national headquarters for The Scout Association in Scotland, part of

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History

The station is built close to the former station Donibristle Halt, opened in 1942 (closed 1959) as part of the Aberdour Line by the

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, and named for the Earl of Moray's estate of Donibristle on which it stood. It is also close to the line of the former Fordell Railway, which operated from 1770 to 1946 and passed below the main line to the east of the station.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has two platforms, connected by a footbridge which is accessible via ramps or steps. The station is equipped with shelters on both platforms, with a self-service

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located in the shelter on Platform 1.

Services

2008

Services are given in National Rail Timetable 242. There is a basic 30 minute service, with alternate trains serving and the Fife Circle route via to Edinburgh. Kirkcaldy services are periodically extended to Dundee.

2016

The same 30-minute base service remains, but daytime trains all now run beyond Kirkcaldy to northbound. One of the two terminates there, whilst the other returns to Edinburgh via Cowdenbeath. In the evening trains run hourly and mostly run to Dundee or Perth, whilst on Sundays they run to Glenrothes & back to Edinburgh.

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