Scotrail, LNER and CrossCountry Trains at Dalmeny on July 8th 2025

1st visit to Dalmeny on the Edinburgh - Dundee Line and Fife Circle Line

Featuring services from Scotrail, LNER and CrossCountry Trains

The station of Dalmeny serves the towns of Dalmeny and South Queensferry with the first opened by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in 1866 as part of the former Port Edgar Branch.

The former E & G station closed on March 4th 1890 which was actually the date before the Forth Bridge opened which the line crosses between here and North Queensferry.

The present station of Dalmeny didn't open until over a month later on April 28th 1890.

The iconic Forth Bridge designed by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker which is one of 3 crosses over the Firth of Forth with the other two being to the North of the Forth Road Bridge opening in 1966 and the Queensferry Crossing which carries the M90 Motorway opening in 2017.

The Forth Rail Bridge originally was due to be designed as a Suspension Bridge by engineer Sir Thomas Bouch in the aftermath of the opening of his original Tay Bridge near Dundee which opened on June 1st 1878 however 18 months later on December 28th 1879 part of the bridge known as the High Girders collapsed into the River Tay in a violent winter storm which tragically killed 59 people on board a passenger train that was on route from Burntisland to Dundee.

After the disaster work on Bouch's suspension bridge was halted and then after the report into the disaster was released in August 1880 holding the engineer himself responsible resulted his Suspension Bridge design for the Forth being scrapped.

The present Cantilever design was undertaken by Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker which took 7 years to complete between 1883 and 1890 at a cost of around £3.2 million pounds equal to over £470 million today.

It remained one of the longest bridge spans in the world until the completion of Quebec Bridge in Montreal, Canada opened in 1919.

As for the station itself its served mainly by Fife Circle Line services to and from Edinburgh to Cowdenbeath via Dunfermline City or Leven via Kirkcaldy although some Leven services can operate via Dunfermline City and Glenrothes.

Other Scotrail services to Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen run non stop through here with most not calling until Inverkeithing

LNER operate 4 trains a day North of Edinburgh to and from Aberdeen with 3 to and from London Kings Cross and 1 service a day to and from Leeds which nowadays operated by Class 800 Azumas which presently run on diesel mode with the changeovers being made at Haymarket.

CrossCountry Trains only have 2 workings a day North of Edinburgh with 1 from Aberdeen which originate to Plymouth following the withdrawal of the direct Aberdeen to Penzance service in May 2025 and the other in the evening that operates to Dundee from Plymouth.

Whilst a lot of eras have come and gone however the Forth Bridge now over 135 years old is still doing its duty and remains one of the most iconic rail bridges in Scotland today.

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Filmed on Tuesday July 8th 2025 on iPhone 15 Pro and edited on iMovie

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