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Halbeath - Cowdenbeath: Opened in September 1985; Cowdenbeath - Lochgelly: Opened on 13 August 1987; Lochgelly - Thornton: the final phase which opened on 16 July 1990 [5] In early April 1998 the A92 was extended beyond the Crossgates junction to provide direct access with the M90 southbound, to ease congestion around the Halbeath interchange.
The service includes the Edinburgh-Dunfermline stretch of the East Coast Main Line, which includes the world-famous Forth Bridge. On the Fife side, while this main line hugs the coast, the circle is formed by a line from Inverkeithing that loops back round to Kirkcaldy by an inland route via Cowdenbeath through the old Fife coalfield. Narrowly ...
Deregulation of bus services under the Transport Act 1985 in October 1986 gave Stagecoach the opportunity to expand operations in Perth, thus fierce competition with the dominant operator Strathtay Scottish began, which eventually saw Stagecoach's then-Perth Panther subsidiary emerge as the largest provider of bus services in the Perth area. [2]
As the Scottish Bus Group broke up, the number of private operators working Citylink contracts increased. Park's, West Coast Motors and Rapsons were now major contributors, while the former SBG companies now owned by Stagecoach ( Fife Scottish , Western Scottish , Bluebird Buses ) began operating their own Stagecoach Express network.
Kilmarnock bus station [12] [13] Kilmarnock: 11 Kirkcaldy bus station [14] Kirkcaldy: 14 [15] Leven bus station [4] Leven: 9 [16] Partick station: Glasgow 6 [17] Interchange station with Glasgow Subway and National Rail services Perth bus station: Perth: 10 [3] Perth railway station (100 metre walk) Seagate bus station [3] Dundee: 9 [3 ...
A northbound service calls at Kirkcaldy The "Boy in the Train" by Mary Campbell Smith (1869-1960) is a well known poem about Kirkcaldy, featuring arrival at Kirkcaldy Railway Station and the smell of the linoleum factories nearby. It is now mounted above the stairs to platform 1 in Kirkcaldy Railway Station.
Northbound, services run every half-hour to Dunfermline City, and half-hourly to Kirkcaldy. One of the former & both of the latter continue to Glenrothes with Thornton . Evenings and Sundays, two trains per hour go southbound to Edinburgh and two per hour go along the Fife Circle one in each direction (one via Dunfermline and one via Kirkcaldy).
The main routes through the town are Halbeath Road and Carnegie Drive from east to west. [166] The main bus terminus is located on a site to the north of the town centre which provides seating, toilets and a cafe. [167] In addition to this, there are also two Park and Ride schemes nearby at Ferrytoll, to the south of Inverkeithing, and Halbeath.