Talk:Fife Circle Line

The line carefully misses all the unattractive towns of south Fife? Laurel Bush 11:54, 4 April 2006 (UTC).

This article does seem like a bit of a rant about the East of Scotland transport system in parts, for example the bit about Haymarket. Paddington station and Fenchurch Street station don't have "London" in them, probably because the majority of rail users should have enough brain cells to rub together to realise they are in London. With regards to unnatractive towns, I think the south of Fife is beautiful, and the line does pass through all the attractive towns, although it does pass through unattractive ones as well, eg. Rosyth. The line "It links all the attractive towns of south Fife", although perhaps a little subjective for Wikipedia, is fine, as upon reading it one would not automatically assume that it therefore misses all the unattractive towns of south Fife. If one were to say "the West Coast Main Line links all the major cities of the west of England" one would not automatically assume that it does not link minor places like Long Buckby, Atherstone and Congleton as well. Benson85 03:47, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

An anon IP is adding Category:Railway loop lines to the article. The definition of the category is "Railway lines which form a circular route around cities", which the Fife Circle does not. --Stewart ^{(talk | edits)} 14:32, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

The article refers to a "a large bi-directional balloon loop at the Fife end." I'm not an expert, but I would have thought that a balloon loop is something like a circular section of track where trains can reverse direction. I don't see how that applies in this case.

And is there really such as a thing as the "Fife end"? The whole point is that it is a circle. A circle cannot have an end.

I'm also unsure about the mention of the "Edinburgh-Dunfermline stretch of the East Coast Main Line". Doesn't that line only run between Edinburgh and London? Even if you consider it to extend north of the Forth as far as Aberdeen, Dunfermline is most certainly not on that route.

I would be interested to read any comments on these points. Mike Marchmont (talk) 11:16, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

The ECML runs all the way to Aberdeen. Between the Forth and the Tay, it shares track with the Fife Circle as far as Thornton South Junction. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:02, 3 September 2025 (UTC)