Where is St Andrews Rail Link?

St Andrews Rail Link is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.3590°, -2.8885°.

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St Andrews Rail Link

St Andrews Rail Link in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Typical visit: 30 min–1 h

St Andrews Rail Link is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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The St Andrews Rail Link Campaign (StARLink Campaign) was established in 1989 with the aim of reconnecting Scottish town of St Andrews to the railway.

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Background

History

The historical St Andrews Railway, which had connected St Andrews to the mainline via Leuchars Junction was closed on 6 January 1969. Unlike the earlier closure of the Anstruther & St Andrews Railway in 1965, the St Andrews Railway was not recommended for closure in the (1963) Beeching Report. The closure, ordered four years after Beeching's departure in 1965, was ordered by Richard Marsh, Minister for Transport in the 1964-1970 (Labour) government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and whilst some Beeching closures did take place after the departure of Beeching in 1965, the St Andrews closure was not an instance of such. The original reinstatement plan espoused by StARLink was simply a…

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