Trains from Spring 2024

We strive to regenerate our hard pressed local community to make it - after decades of decline - a more prosperous, healthier and attractive place to live and work. Reinstating the rail line to allow direct trains to/from Edinburgh was a vital requirement for this to happen.

The LevenMouth Rail Campaign has won the 2024 Railfuture Judges’ Award for our campaign.

Here’s our latest video:

Levenmouth Rail

The Scottish Government  announced in 2019 that the Levenmouth line would be reopened together with improved bus, walking and cycling links for the area. Stations are at Leven and Cameron Bridge. Trains to Edinburgh take 64-75 minutes.

The timetable for 2024 provides an hourly daily service with all trains running to and from Edinburgh via Kirkcaldy. From 2025 there should be a half-hourly service alternately via Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline.

Weekday trains run from Leven from 0539 to 2318 (Saturdays 2320) generally around 15 minutes past the hour and Sundays 0830 to 2203. Trains from Edinburgh are at 0604 (Saturdays 0603) to 2305 usually just after the hour and on Sundays from 0915 to 2216. All trains stop at all stations except South Gyle including Kirkcaldy, Inverkeithing and Haymarket.

Change at Kirkcaldy for Perth, Leuchars, Dundee, Aberdeen and the Caledonian Sleeper to London Euston, at Inverkeithing for Dunfermline and the 747 bus link to Edinburgh Airport, at Haymarket for Glasgow, Stirling and Carlisle and at Edinburgh Waverley for North Berwick, Galashiels, Tweedbank, Berwick, Newcastle and London King’s Cross.

The timetable from 15 December 2024 is at download (scotrail.co.uk).

There are minor changes from the June timetable, usually of one or two minutes but the 0716 from Leven is speeded up and the last train from Leven on Mondays to Thursdays involves a change at Kirkcaldy and later arrival into Edinburgh.

Christmas and New Year 2024-25

24 and 31 December

Last train from Edinburgh to Leven 2005

25 December and 1 January 

No trains

26 December

Edinburgh to Leven 1005 hourly to 1905 and Leven to Edinburgh hourly 1020 to 1920

27-30 December

Normal service

2 January

First trains 0907 Edinburgh to Leven and 0914 Leven to Edinburgh

There is a summary timetable below.

Fares

It is sometimes cheaper to buy a ticket to Kirkcaldy as advance singles may be available from there to Edinburgh.

Holders of National Concessionary Cards can buy tickets between any two stations in Fife (eg Leven to North Queensferry) for £1 single or £2 return on the day from the conductor. See Fife-Council-Concessionary-Rail-Scheme-Oct-2023.doc (live.com). Just buy a ticket from the conductor from North Queensferry (as all Leven trains stop there) to Edinburgh.

The next meeting on Tuesday 28 January 2025 at 18:30 will be in person at Fife Renewables Innovation Centre, Ajax Way, Methil and also on Zoom. Meetings generally are on the final Tuesday of alternate months.  Anyone interested is welcome to participate – just send your email address to [email protected].

The next meeting on Tuesday 28 January 2025 at 18:30 will be in person at Fife Renewables Innovation Centre, Ajax Way, Methil and also on Zoom. Meetings generally are on the final Tuesday of alternate months.  Anyone interested is welcome to participate – just send your email address to [email protected].