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Aberdour railway station

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Aberdour
General information
LocationFife
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeAUR
Key dates
2 June 1890Station opens

Aberdour railway station is a railway station in the village of Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line.

Services

Aberdour is served by two trains per hour (weekday daytimes) which serve all stations between Edinburgh Waverley and Kirkcaldy. One an hour continues on to terminate at Markinch, while the other runs to Glenrothes with Thornton and continues around the Fife Circle Line returning to Edinburgh via Dunfermline.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Dalgety Bay   Abellio ScotRail
Fife Circle Line
  Burntisland

History

Opened by the North British Railway it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced by British Rail, the station was served by the ScotRail sector until the Privatisation of British Railways. The station has won numerous awards for its gardens.

The station was the location of a camping coach.