Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway

Introduction

This line is open. From Charlestown Junction (Dunfermline) south to Inverkeithing South Junction it is in regular use. South of this it provides the first part of the line to Rosyth Dockyard.






Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Dunfermline to Queensferry

1877 and included the opening of Dunfermline Lower.

GBRf 66714 'Cromer Lifeboat' eases along the little-used line through Culross with Ballast 6K02 from North Queensferry to Millerhill on 29 October ...
Bill Roberton 29/10/2023
68004 nears Charlestown Junction, having just passed the former Elbowend Junction, with the Grangemouth - Aberdeen Craiginches intermodal service, ...
Bill Roberton 06/12/2020
An SPT-liveried 170 approaches Charlestown Junction with Dunfermline's skyline in the background.  A south to west chord has been proposed here, ...
Bill Roberton 16/08/2010
20137+20119 with a train from RNAD Crombie approaching Charlestown Junction in 1991, with the formerly rail-served gas works in the background.
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Bill Roberton //1991
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This is a two platform station. It was notable for the street level ticket office on brick piers, accessed from the pavement by a footbridge. Sadly this was demolished in 1999.
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Freightliner 66516 nears Rosyth with 6K01 from Thornton South Junction to Millerhill, consisting of lifted track panels, on 12 November 2023.
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Bill Roberton 12/11/2023
GBRf 66757 runs through Rosyth with 6K02 from Thornton South Junction to Millerhill on 12 November 2023.
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Bill Roberton 12/11/2023
A Fife Circle service for Edinburgh pulls into Rosyth on 25 August 2021. A nearby sign proclaims Rosyth to be Scotland's only garden city; this leads ...
David Panton 25/08/2021
66028 runs through Rosyth with coal for Longannet Power Station, reversing
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Bill Roberton //2000
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This forms the north part of a triangular junction. The main line runs south to Inverkeithing Central Junction and a single track loop line (formerly double) runs east to Inverkeithing East Junction. The signal box here closed in 1979, being taken over by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre. The box was on the north side of the junction. ...

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Aberdour Line (North British Railway)
170453 comes north round the curve at Inverkeithing North Junction in 2004. The single track of the curve round to Inverkeithing East Junction can be ...
Ewan Crawford 28/12/2004
Looking down to Inverkeithing North Junction and the yard in February 2006. An unidentified Hunterston - Longannet working is heading to Townhill to ...
John Clark 16/02/2006
The Inverkeithing North/East chord with a road-rail machine and DR73803 waiting for the call to work at the Aberdour track renewal. A 170 passes on a ...
Bill Roberton 19/03/2017
Construction work in progress on the Forth Road Bridge approach roads to the north of Inverkeithing, taken from a Perth-bound train on 23rd March ...
Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 23/03/1963
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This junction is north of Inverkeithing station and opened for the opening of the Forth Bridge. It forms the southern apex of a triangle of lines. The reverse curves travelled by a train following the main line betray that the original route here was from Dunfermline to Queensferry.
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Aberdour Line (North British Railway)
DRS-liveried but Freightliner-owned and branded 66413 draws a Craiginches South - Millerhill ballast out of Inverkeithing Up Loop on 25 April. ...
Bill Roberton 25/04/2017
An incoming Fife Circle service from the Kirkcaldy side clatters over the points at Inverkeithing and into the station on 16 June 2021. ...
David Panton 16/06/2021
A Midland Pullman excursion from Dundee to York on 30 July 2022 takes the inverkeithing East/Central Junction chord with Intercity-liveried 43049 on ...
Bill Roberton 30/07/2022
A Midland Pullman excursion from Dundee to York passes Inverkeithing East Junction, led by 43046, on 30 July 2022.
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Bill Roberton 30/07/2022
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This is a two platform station. The station still has a traditional North British Railway building on the southbound platform. The northbound platform has a modern station building with the ticket office and a car park.
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Inverkeithing 30 April 2017. ...
John Yellowlees 30/04/2017
170409 leaves Inverkeithing with the 14.00 from Glenrothes with Thornton to Edinburgh on 11 January 2023.
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Bill Roberton 11/01/2023
Azuma 800108 calls at Inverkeithing with the 07.52 from Aberdeen to Kings Cross on 16 June 2023. ...
Bill Roberton 16/06/2023
EWS 66196 stands at Inverkeithing on 25 July 2007 with an engineers train during track renewal and platform resurfacing work (plus presumably the ...
John Furnevel 25/07/2007
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This junction is south of Inverkeithing station. Lines to the Forth Bridge and Rosyth Dockyard divide here. The signal box here closed in 1972, control being taken over by Inverkeithing Central Junction signal box.
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Forth Bridge Railway
D6851 'Flopsie' brings up the rear of 'The Statesman' at Inverkeithing South Junction, on its way from Stevenage to Inverness on 2 September 2023.
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Bill Roberton 02/09/2023
D1924 leads 'The Statesman' past Inverkeithing South Junction, on its way from Stevenage to Inverness on 2 September 2023.
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Bill Roberton 02/09/2023
158735 on the 15.18 from Edinburgh to Cowdenbeath passes Inverkeithing South Junction and the overgrown Rosyth Dockyard branch on 12 October 2023.
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Bill Roberton 12/10/2023
The afternoon workmen's service from Rosyth Dockyard to Kirkcaldy joins the main line at Inverkeithing South Junction in 1983. The former goods yard ...
Bill Roberton //1983
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This station was to the south of Inverkeithing South Junction. It was the original station in Inverkeithing. It had a single platform and passing loop. Sidings were on the west side, approached from the north. A signal box opened with the station.
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Looking south from the public foot crossing by the car park, along the Rosyth Dockyard branch, towards the site of Inverkeithing 1st station on 25 ...
Bill Roberton 25/03/2023
A pair of class 101 units pass the site of Inverkeithing (1st) station with a Navy Day shuttle to Rosyth Dockyard. The Dunfermline & Queensferry ...
Bill Roberton //1985
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A former paper mill owned by the Caldwell Paper Company and the Inveresk Paper Company after 1928. It was located on the north shore of the Inner Bay, Inverkeithing,
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The former rail-served paper mill alongside the Rosyth Dockyard branch at Inverkeithing in January 2010. For generations rail travellers have looked ...
David Panton 30/01/2010
The formerly rail-served Caldwells/Inveresk Paper Mill at Inverkeithing succumbs to demolition after years of arson and scrap theft. At the extreme ...
Bill Roberton 05/03/2012
Above - a ScotRail 170 unit passes the doomed chimneys of the Caldwells/Inveresk paper mill at Inverkeithing on 12 August 2012.
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Bill Roberton 12/08/2012
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This scrap and shipbreaking yard is operated by Robertson Metals Recycling, formerly R & M Supplies, formerly Thos W Ward. Many vessels have been scrapped her including HMS Dreadnought and RMS Mauretania.
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RMS 'Mauretania' at T W Ward Shipbreakers, Inverkeithing, on 27th November 1965. She had arrived earlier that week for scrapping. ...
Brian Haslehust 27/11/1965
Withdrawn Cemflos being cut up in the yard of T W Ward, Inverkeithing, in 1988. ...
Grant Robertson //1988
Part of the large T W Ward scrapyard at Inverkeithing in 1988, with one of the two John Fowler 0-4-0DM shunters that operated on the site. ...
Grant Robertson //1988
Cutting up work at various stages on a number of wagons in the yard of T W Ward, Inverkeithing, in 1988. ...
Grant Robertson //1988
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101 311 passes underneath Jamestown Viaduct, with a workers train from Rosyth Dockyard to Kirkcaldy in 1986.
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Bill Roberton //1986
The Rosyth Dockyard branch beneath Jamestown Viaduct on 15 May 2023. A weekday return trip down the branch is shown in the system in 2023. Aye right ...
Bill Roberton 15/05/2023
The overbridge on the Rosyth Dockyard branch, situated just to the
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David Panton 16/01/2011
The loop and former scrap siding (lifted) at Naval Base Junction. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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This single bore and single track disused tunnel, about a quarter of a mile long, is north of the former North Queensferry [1st] terminus on the branch from Dunfermline. The station was on a pier and ferries crossed the Forth. This branch's role was replaced by the opening of the Forth Bridge Railway in 1890, but the line remained open to goods until 1954.
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This was the terminus of the Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway at the Queensferry railway pier, immediately west of the town pier.
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A motorcycle combination, and a well loaded Mini, follow a Humber Super Snipe onto the 'Mary Queen of Scots' at North Queensferry on 4th September ...
Brian Haslehust 04/09/1964
'Mary Queen of Scots' and 'Queen Margaret' at North Queensferry, on their final day of operation, 4th September 1964. ...
Brian Haslehust 04/09/1964
All stand aside to make way for an MG Magnette coming off the ferry 'Robert the Bruce' at North Queensferry. Behind, an Austin Westminster is ...
Brian Haslehust 04/09/1964
The first North Queensferry station found itself redundant when the Forth Bridge opened in 1890 and the station closed that year. Whether it closed ...
David Panton 25/11/2019
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Touch Curve

Opened for Forth Bridge in 1890.

This was the northern end of a curve opened 1890 with the Forth Bridge to allow a Edinburgh Waverley - Stirling service via Oakley in addition to other services.
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Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway)
Someone with a sense of history has gone to the trouble of making these signs and placing them on the path near the site of Touch (pronounced 'tookh') ...
David Panton 25/08/2021
Looking west towards Dunfermline Upper on the former Edinburgh and Northern Railway's Dunfermline branch (to the latter day Dunfermline Upper Station) ...
Bill Roberton 20/09/2021
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This junction opened in 1890 with the Forth Bridge to allow a Edinburgh Waverley - Stirling service via Oakley. The north end of the new curve was at Touch North Junction.
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West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Looking west along Halbeath Road as 170396 crosses with a Fife Circle service on 20 September 2021. The dip in the road allowed trams from the ...
Bill Roberton 20/09/2021
Memories of Touch South Junction. This plate is on a bridge between Dunfermline Town and Dunfermline Queen Margaret. ...
John Yellowlees 17/05/2019
Climbing away from Dunfermline. ...
Bill Roberton 09/10/2016
Edinburgh bound 158732 on the eastern approach to Dunfermline Town station on 13 June.
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Bill Roberton 13/06/2011
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