Cowdenbeath railway station
Cowdenbeath 
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Cowdenbeath railway station in 2012
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| Location | |
| Place | Cowdenbeath |
| Local authority | Fife |
| Coordinates | 56°06′43″N 3°20′35″W / 56.1120°N 3.3431°WCoordinates: 56°06′43″N 3°20′35″W / 56.1120°N 3.3431°W |
| Grid reference | NT165918 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | COW |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.151 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.158 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.162 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.171 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.182 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 2 June 1890 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cowdenbeath from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Cowdenbeath railway station is a railway station in the town of Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line, 22 1⁄2 miles (36.2 km) north of Edinburgh Waverley.
The station can be accessed via two steep ramps from either the east side of the High Street, or Station Road, and there is a footbridge connecting the platforms.
The ticket office is situated within the waiting room. Additional ticket facilities are provided by an automatic ticket machine outside the waiting room. There is a toilet but to access it, a key must be obtained from the ticket office. There were public toilet facilities in the High Street but these were closed in May 2008; now the nearest facilities are at Cowdenbeath Leisure Centre, a short walk from the High Street.
The nearest bus stops, public phones and taxi rank are in the High Street.
The Edinburgh and Northern Railway was the first company to serve Cowdenbeath from 1848, with the Kinross-shire Railway line to Kinross opening 12 years later in 1860 (this later became part of the most direct rail route between Edinburgh and Perth). This though followed a more southerly course through the town than the present alignment, which was built & commissioned by the North British Railway in June 1890 as part of the programme of works associated with the new Forth Rail Bridge. The station here was opened on this date, with the original depot becoming Cowdenbeath Old. A connecting chord was subsequently built to link the 'New' station to the 1848 E&NR route and from March 1919, all passenger services were routed this way. The 1848 station & line serving it was then closed to passengers, although it remained open for through goods traffic until 1966 and to serve a colliery at the western end until 1978.
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