Name change
Dunfermline was awarded city status as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022. Sadly, Her Majesty The Queen died on 08 September 2022 and it was her son, by now King Charles III who visited the city on 03 October 2022 to hand over the official documents confirming city status. Around the same time, ScotRail announced that Dunfermline Town station would be renamed Dunfermline City. This station had been opened in March 1890 by the North British Railway as Dunfermline Lower replacing the nearby earlier Comely Park station of 1877. The ‘Lower’ suffix was to distinguish it from the NBR’s Upper Station on the ex Stirling and Dunfermline line. Dunfermline Upper would eventually be closed in October 1968, so the Lower station then became plain Dunfermline. When Railtrack opened a new Dunfermline Queen Margaret station on the eastern outskirts in January 2000, the 1890 station was renamed Dunfermline Town. It held that name until the suffix was changed in 2022. It takes time to change the name of a station with so many databases to be amended so the older name may still appear in some situations for a while. The new signs at the station were erected on 23 November 2022 although on my visit I did notice one Dunfermline Town sign had been ignored on the out of use and overgrown western end of the down platform.
Name change
Dunfermline was awarded city status as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022. Sadly, Her Majesty The Queen died on 08 September 2022 and it was her son, by now King Charles III who visited the city on 03 October 2022 to hand over the official documents confirming city status. Around the same time, ScotRail announced that Dunfermline Town station would be renamed Dunfermline City. This station had been opened in March 1890 by the North British Railway as Dunfermline Lower replacing the nearby earlier Comely Park station of 1877. The ‘Lower’ suffix was to distinguish it from the NBR’s Upper Station on the ex Stirling and Dunfermline line. Dunfermline Upper would eventually be closed in October 1968, so the Lower station then became plain Dunfermline. When Railtrack opened a new Dunfermline Queen Margaret station on the eastern outskirts in January 2000, the 1890 station was renamed Dunfermline Town. It held that name until the suffix was changed in 2022. It takes time to change the name of a station with so many databases to be amended so the older name may still appear in some situations for a while. The new signs at the station were erected on 23 November 2022 although on my visit I did notice one Dunfermline Town sign had been ignored on the out of use and overgrown western end of the down platform.