sentences:  This rail halt was opened in May 1992, restoring a rail service to Thornton lost when its main line railway station closed in October 1969 as a consequence of the 1963 report by Dr Richard Beeching on the Reshaping of British Railways (the Beeching Report).The village is well served by local buses, operated by Stagecoach Group in Fife and running between Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes.However, express services between those towns bypass Thornton.