Cardenden railway station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

Cardenden Cardenden () is a Scottish town located on the south bank of the River Ore in the parish of Auchterderran, Fife. It is approximately northwest of Kirkcaldy. Cardenden was named in 1848 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway for its new rail ...

Fife Fife ( , ; ; ) is a council areas of Scotland, council area and lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area in Scotland. A peninsula, it is bordered by the Firth of Tay to the north, the North Sea to the east, the Firth of Forth to the s ...

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. The station is managed by

ScotRail ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail (), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government. It has been operating the ScotRail franchise as an operator of las ...

and is on the

Fife Circle Line The Fife Circle Line is the local rail service north from Edinburgh. It links towns of south Fife and the coastal towns along the Firth of Forth before heading to Edinburgh. Operationally, the service is not strictly a circle route, but, rathe ...

, north of . It opened to traffic in 1848, on the ''Dunfermline Branch'' of the

Edinburgh and Northern Railway The Edinburgh and Northern Railway (E&NR) 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 ...

. The station is situated on Station Road, between the Bowhill and Dundonald areas. It can be accessed from the street by ramps or stairs. A footbridge connects the platforms. The station is unstaffed and there are no ticket vending facilities. Passengers boarding here must buy their tickets from staff on the train. There is a small car park. There are bus stops on Station Road. The station has recently been upgraded with new platforms and a signage system giving accurate train times. A CCTV system covers the station and is operated by ScotRail. Cardenden was the terminus for train services until the line to Thornton re-opened in May 1989 allowing the "Fife Circle Line" to operate. During the 1970s and early 1980s, the station was only served during the morning & early evening peak (trains outside these times starting/terminating at Cowdenbeath).

Services

There is generally an hourly service in each direction along the Fife Circle Line westbound towards or eastbound towards . Additional services run at weekday peak times, with one in each direction (via Cowdenbeath) starting & finishing here. Evening services start/terminate at rather than running through to/from Edinburgh via the coast.GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 242 (Network Rail) Services in both directions begin and end at

Edinburgh Waverley Edinburgh Waverley (also known simply as Edinburgh; ) is the principal railway station serving Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after Glasgow Central. The station serves as the northern terminus of the East C ...

. The journey to Edinburgh is quicker via Dunfermline (56 minutes) than via Kirkcaldy and the stations on the Fife coast (86 minutes). On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

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Railway stations in Fife Former North British Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations served by ScotRail 1848 establishments in Scotland Cardenden {{Fife-railstation-stub