History

The station was opened in 1847 by Edinburgh and Northern Railway

Edinburgh and Northern Railway

The Edinburgh and Northern Railway was a Scottish railway company. It was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1845. It operated services between Burntisland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth, Perth and Tayport, with a junction at Ladybank...

. 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.

Services

Services through the station are mainly to Edinburgh and Dundee/Aberdeen. Ladybank is also the junction for services direct to Perth along a route via Newburgh

Newburgh, Fife

Newburgh is a royal burgh of Fife, Scotland having a population of 2040 . Newburgh has grown little since 1901 when the population was counted at 1904 persons....

. The single track

Single track (rail)

A single track railway is where trains in both directions share the same track. Single track is normally used on lesser used rail lines, often branch lines, where the traffic density is not high enough to justify the cost of building double tracks....

 nature of this line limits the frequency of services possible to and from Perth.