page_title: Markinch
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Markinch / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: The newly developed Markinch rail hault with park and ride facilities. The older building in the background was the original station building and station masters house.
context_page_description: Markinch is both a village and a parish in the heart of Fife, Scotland. According to an estimate taken in 2008, the village
  has a population of 2,420. The civil parish had a population of 16,530. Markinch is east of Fife's administrative centre, Glenrothes and preceded Cupar as Fife's place of warranty and justice prior to the 13th century.
context_section_description: Markinch has good transport links being well linked to Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh via rail.  Markinch Interchange lies on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line and connects to Perth and Inverness, the latter via the Highland Main Line. The station has recently been upgraded with a new station building, longer platforms, and park and ride facilities. Regular bus services link the station with Glenrothes and Leven town centres.
  The station was once a terminus of a branch line, which ran through the land now occupied by Glenrothes between Leslie and Markinch. The line was closed to passengers in 1935, but remained open to freight until 1967. The former branchline now forms part of the Fife Cycle Network and has been named Böblingen Way, after Glenrothes' German Twin Town.  Another section of the branch line which linked to Tullis Russell paper mill was still in use until the early 1990s, but this has now also been removed and converted into a cycleway linking to Glenrothes.
  Markinch has frequent bus services to Glenrothes and Levenmouth provided by a number of bus service providers. Markinch station was redeveloped to create an interchange for passengers travelling between Leven and Edinburgh/Dundee. Passengers can catch frequent buses from Leven town centre to Markinch railway station, then onwards to towns served by the East Coast Main Line, such as Edinburgh and Dundee. Bus services are shown below:
  Moffat & Williamson
  2: Markinch - Coaltown of Balgonie - Glenrothes
  5: Markinch - Prestonhall - Glenrothes - Rimbleton
  School services to Auchmuty High School and St Paul's Primary School, in Glenrothes.
  Stagecoach in Fife
  X26: Leven - Markinch - Glasgow
  43/43A: Leven - Windygates - Markinch - Glenrothes Whitehill
  44A/44B: Leven - Windygates - Markinch - Glenrothes Whitehill
  45: Markinch - Coaltown of Balgonie - Glenrothes
  46/46A: Leven - Kennoway - Star - Markinch - Glenrothes
caption: Markinch railway station
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