Ladybank railway station
Ladybank 
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| Location | |
| Place | Ladybank |
| Local authority | Fife |
| Coordinates | 56°16′26″N 3°07′17″W / 56.2739°N 3.1215°WCoordinates: 56°16′26″N 3°07′17″W / 56.2739°N 3.1215°W |
| Grid reference | NO306096 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | LDY |
| 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 |
 63,810 |
| 2012/13 |
64,238 |
| 2013/14 |
66,234 |
| 2014/15 |
71,244 |
| 2015/16 |
82,702 |
| History | |
| Original company | Edinburgh and Northern Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| 17 September 1847 | Station opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ladybank from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Ladybank railway station serves the town of Ladybank in Fife, Scotland.
The station was opened in 1847 by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway on their line from Burntisland, being the point at which the line divided into two branches to Cupar and Lindores. The latter branch was subsequently extended to Hilton Junction, near Perth the following year. On 6 June 1857, the Fife and Kinross Railway opened, providing a link to Kinross. This line was closed to passengers on 6 June 1950, with the line between Auchtermuchty and Ladybank closing to freight on 29 January 1957.
Passenger trains were also withdrawn on the Perth branch (as far as Bridge of Earn) on 19 September 1955 by the British Transport Commission, the route having been reduced to single track (with a loop at Newburgh) by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1933. The line was retained for freight traffic and was subsequently reopened to passengers in 1975 to provide a shorter route between Perth & Edinburgh than that via Stirling (the direct route from Cowdenbeath via Kinross having been closed in 1970 to free up part of the alignment for the planned M90 motorway).
In the current (Winter 2015-16) timetable, the station is served by two trains per hour to/from Edinburgh - one of these is the hourly semi-fast service to Dundee and the other runs to Perth. The single track nature of this line limits the frequency of services possible to and from Perth, though track upgrades & replacement work has improved matters somewhat by reducing the end-to-end journey time between here and Hilton Junction. A few Perth trains continue north along the Highland Main Line to Inverness. On Sundays, most trains run between Edinburgh & Perth, though a few Aberdeen services call in the morning & evening.
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