Edinburgh and Northern Railway

Introduction

This line is largely open. The line is also known by its later name the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway. Due to the number of art galleries, art studios and museums the line is also known as the Artline (The Artline ).

Architecture

- Station buildings -



The unique terminus building


Burntisland
Architect thought to be David Bell. Built 1847. Two storey classical frontage with columned portico. Trainshed at rear demolished, although marks from the former roof remain on rear of building. Current station accessed via wooden passage from original entry.

Bigger station buildings


Markinch
Architect David Bell. Built 1847. Grey ashlar two storey house above platforms on retaining wall. The building is elevated as the station is located in a cutting.


Ladybank
Architect thought to be David Bell. Built 1847. Grey ashlar two and three storey house with adjoining long single storey ticket office.


Cupar
Architect thought to be David Bell. Built 1847. Two storey house with fine entrance with elliptical arches. Long range of buildings.

Smaller main station buildings


Kinghorn
Architect thought to be David Bell. Built 1847. Two storey ashlar station house with Tudor styled street frontage. Boxed in portico on platform side.


Springside.
Architect thought to be David Bell. Built 1847. Two storey ashlar station house with Tudor style in 'L' plan layout.

And on the Dunfermline branch

Dunfermline Upper
Similarities.

Other buildings


Kinghorn second building (cantilevered out). Removed?


Ladybank second building, late North British Railway style.


Cupar second building


Newburgh building


Burntisland
Ferry terminal building.


Ladybank Workshops, four track carriage shed. David Bell 1847. Latterly signal and telegraph works.


Ladybank (Laird's waiting room?)

Leuchars [2nd] is a newer NBR? or even LNER after burning by suffragettes? building.
Cupar Granary
Burntisland round house shed.

Viaducts


Markinch Viaduct
Thomas Grainger and John Miller 1847, 8 50ft arches, a 24ft arch at each end.

Kinghorn Viaduct
Thomas Grainger and John Miller 1847, 2 46ft segmental arches.

Kirkcaldy Linktown Viaduct
Thomas Grainger and John Miller 1847, 7 51ft segmental arches and one 13ft blind.

Tunnels

Kinghorn

Service

Part of the through route Edinburgh to Aberdeen. Formerly ferries at Burntisland and Tayport.



Dates

31/07/1845Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Act receives Royal assent. Mainline from Burntisland to Perth via Ladybank. Branches from Ladybank to Cupar and Kirkcaldy to the harbour. The Perth station was to be beside the Dundee and Perth Railway station.
  /  /1846Scottish Central Railway Scottish Midland Junction Railway Dundee and Perth Railway Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Agreement and authorisation that Perth General station be owned by Scottish Central Railway, Scottish Midland Junction Railway, Dundee and Perth Railway and Edinburgh and Northern Railway jointly.
03/02/1847Scottish Central Railway Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Agreement for use of the Scottish Central Railway between Hilton Junction and Perth General by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
27/07/1847Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway
Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway absorbed by Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
17/09/1847Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Opened from Burntisland to Lindores and Cupar. Stations at Burntisland [1st], Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Sinclairtown, Dysart, Thornton, Markinch, Falkland Road, Kingskettle, Ladybank, Collessie, Lindores [1st], Springfield and Cupar.
09/12/1847Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Extended from Lindores [1st] to Glenburnie. Glenburnie opened and Lindores [1st] closed. (Lindores [1st] may also have been known as Abdie?)
18/05/1848Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Extended from Glenburnie to Abernethy Road. Stations at Newburgh [1st] and Abernethy Road opened. Glenburnie closed.
25/07/1848Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Opened from Abernethy Road to Hilton Junction. Stations at Abernethy and Bridge of Earn [1st] opened, Abernethy Road closed. (Alternative date for Bridge of Earn - 18th.)
  /04/1849Edinburgh and Northern RailwayEdinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway
The Edinburgh and Northern Railway becomes the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway.
  /  /1850Earl of Rosslyn's Collieries
Dysart Colliery Randolph Pit mine sunk alongside the Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
17/05/1850Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Opened from Cupar to Ferry-Port-on-Craig for passengers. Stations opened at Dairsie, Leuchars [1st], Ferry-Port-on-Craig opened.
  /  /1851Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Ferry-Port-on-Craig renamed Tay Port.
01/07/1852Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Leuchars [1st] renamed Leuchars Junction on the opening of the St Andrews Railway.
  /  /1859Scottish Central Railway Scottish Midland Junction Railway Dundee and Perth Railway Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Limits of Perth General station defined by the joint committee, repealing the agreement of 1846. The Scottish North Eastern Railway is authorised to use Perth General and to form a siding on the east side of the station.
  /  /1860Scottish Central Railway Scottish Midland Junction Railway Dundee and Perth Railway Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Rights of access to Perth General of the companies agreed .
  /  /1861Kinross-shire Railway
Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Kinross-shire Railway absorbed by Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway.
  /  /1861Fife and Kinross RailwayEdinburgh and Northern Railway
Fife and Kinross Railway absorbed by the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway.
01/06/1878Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Leuchars Junction [1st] closed on opening of the Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway) replaced by Leuchars Junction [2nd] to the south at the junction between the lines.
01/12/1878Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Leuchars Junction [1st] reopens as Leuchars Old.
12/05/1879Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Tay Port altered to become a through station on the Newport Railway, afterwards known as Tayport.
01/02/1890Edinburgh and Northern Railway
New further west Bridge of Earn [2nd] station opened to serve both the Perth to Ladybank and Perth to Cowdenbeath lines. Bridge of Earn [1st] closes.
13/08/1906Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Newburgh [2nd] opens west of Newburgh [1st] which closes.
30/06/1913Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Leuchars Junction burned down by suffragettes.
14/04/1914Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Collision at Burntisland East Junction between London to Aberdeen Joint express and Carlisle to Dundee goods.
19/08/1921Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Burntisland Harbour vested into the North British Railway.
03/10/1921Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Leuchars Old station closed.
01/07/1923Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Thornton renamed Thornton Junction.
  /07/1933Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Bridge of Earn Junction to Newburgh [1st] singled and Glenburnie Junction to Ladybank singled. Newburgh [2nd] to Glenburnie Junction becomes a long loop.
20/09/1954Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Dairsie closed.
19/09/1955Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Bridge of Earn Junction to Ladybank closed to passengers. Stations at Abernethy, Newburgh [2nd] and Collessie closed.
09/01/1956Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Tayport (excluded) to Leuchars Junction [2nd] (excluded) closed to passengers. Leuchars Old (excluded) to Morton Siding (excluded) closed to all traffic.
15/09/1958Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Falkland Road station closed
13/05/1960Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Newburgh [2nd] to Glenburnie Junction singled.
11/01/1966Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Bridge of Earn Junction to Ladybank closed by rockfall at Clatchard Craig Quarry.
22/05/1966Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Tayport, now a terminus from Wormit, closed.
23/05/1966Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Tayport to Spinning Mill Siding closed to goods.
16/01/1967Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Line re-opened between Bridge or Earn Junction and Ladybank after clearing rockfall at Clatchard Craig Quarry and re-instating line.
04/09/1967Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Kingskettle station closed.
06/10/1969Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Sinclairtown, Dysart, Thornton Junction stations closed.
  /04/1970Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Closure of Thornton Shed [2nd] (62A).
  /04/1970Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Closure of Dunfermline (62C) shed, Townhill wagon repair shops stabling point becomes 62C and gains allocation of locomotives
16/02/1972Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Tokenless block introduced between Ladybank and Hilton Junction. Bridge of Earn Junction signal-box closed.
  /05/1972Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Newburgh [2nd] loop extended and each track signalled for bi-directional working.
08/01/1973Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Withdrawal of direct daily Kirkcaldy to Glasgow Queen Street working.
21/04/1973Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Trackwork at Ladybank Works removed, but building not demolished.
06/10/1975Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Hilton Junction to the former Bridge of Earn Junction to Ladybank re-opened for passengers (after closure of the Glenfarg Line (North British Railway)).
06/10/1975Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Some Perth to Edinburgh Waverley workings diverted from via Stirling to via Newburgh [2nd].
06/10/1979Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Newburgh [2nd] sidings removed pending removal of loop.
  /  /1981Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Signaling from Dalmeny to Cupar, Dunfermline and Cowdenbeath transferred to the new Edinburgh Signalling Centre.
08/07/1998Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Derailment at Burntisland.
  /09/2000Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Kinghorn wins ScotRail Station of the Year.
  /12/2001Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Railtrack withdraws £800,000 of its funding towards the proposed £1.8m Markinch interchange.
17/12/2007Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Accident involving a car which came off the A92 north of Ladybank on the Perth route. The car was empty and was struck by a Class 170.
  /05/2011Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Siding lifted at Kirkcaldy.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Burntisland to Tayport

This pier was alongside, and to the south of, Burntisland [1st] station. It no longer exists but its former site can be estimated by looking south south east from Forth Place, the square in front of Burntisland station. From this pier the steamers to Granton Pier ran south, linking the Edinburgh and Northern Railway to the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway.
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This was the southern terminus of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway. A Thomas Bouch designed train ferry operated from here to Granton. It was replaced by the present Burntisland station, a through station on the approach to the Forth Bridge, just to the north. The station building is a scheduled Ancient Monument.
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The inscription on the National Transport Trust Red Wheel, denoting a site of transport heritage, at the first Burntisland railway station, ...
John Yellowlees 16/12/2020
A series of photographs taken on a research visit in September 2020.
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Ian Dinmore 16/09/2020
The old Burntisland terminus is often photographed from the entrance elevation, but on the other side the imprint of the trainshed roofs can still be ...
Mark Bartlett 07/08/2021
Looking from the facade of Burntisland (!st) Station, to the ruinous former Forth Hotel, in 1990. It had been converted into a district control office ...
Bill Roberton //1990
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This junction was east of the 1847 Burntisland [1st] terminus and its 1890 replacement Burntisland.
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67025 passes Burntisland Links on 13 August with the 17.08 Edinburgh - Fife Circle service. ...
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Edinburgh bound 170 470 passes the disused Burntisland Junction on 18 April 2009. The junction once provided access to Burntisland docks and ...
David Panton 18/04/2009
Freightliner 66593 with a train of concrete sleepers at Burntisland. A machine is tamping the trackbed in preparation for setting out the sleepers. ...
Bill Roberton 13/01/2019
DBS 68003 passes Burntisland links with the evening Cardenden - Mossend empty stock working. The loco is passing over the severed link to the docks. ...
Bill Roberton 05/04/2016
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The works of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway were at Burntisland, a little east of Burntisland [1st], beyond the Lammerlaws bridge, and south of the line. The works were approached from the west. The site was dominated by the large sixteen road roundhouse, its entry arch being the shed's water tank. The roundhouse was topped with a large cone shaped roof.
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Lost Railfreight 37271 passes the site of Burntisland Works and engine shed, with empty fertiliser wagons from Montrose, in 1990. #COP26 ...
Bill Roberton //1990
An aerial view of Burntisland Works in 1883, as represented by the East of Scotland 4mm Group's award-winning layout at Model Rail Scotland, Glasgow, ...
Bill Roberton 25/02/2023
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This junction was east of Burntisland and Burntisland Junction. It opened in 1901 along with the associated Lammerlaws Yard and Burntisland East Dock.
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LNER Azuma 800103 passes Burntisland Links with the 14.52 from Aberdeen to York on 25 March 2021.
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Bill Roberton 25/03/2021
170401 nears the site of Burntisland East Junction with the 13.15 from Aberdeen to Edinburgh on 30 April 2022.
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Bill Roberton 30/04/2022
Caledonian Sleeper 73969 and 73971 sit above Kinghorn Road, Burntisland on engineers' duties on 28 February 2021.
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Bill Roberton 28/02/2021
66 101 stands at the head of a ballast train at Burntisland East Junction during Sunday engineering works on 14 June 2009 ...
David Panton 14/06/2009
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This tunnel is south west of Kinghorn station and 265 yards long. (Or 242 yards, sources vary.)
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GBRf 66746 leads the 'Royal Scotsman' from Edinburgh to Keith, approaching Pettycur Harbour on 10 July. ...
Bill Roberton 10/07/2023
The 07.08 LNER service from Leeds to Aberdeen passes Pettycur Bay on the approach to Kinghorn Tunnel on 16th December 2019. ...
Bill Roberton 16/12/2019
The Darlington - Dundee Northern Belle between Kinghorn tunnel and station on 15 June behind 47501. No 47832 was on the rear of the train. ...
Bill Roberton 15/06/2013
A1 Tornado passes Pettycur Bay on the approach to Kinghorn Tunnel with 'The Aberdonian' on 14 March. ...
Bill Roberton 14/03/2019
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This is a two platform station. The main station building is on the northbound platform. The station is in Kinghorn, just above Kinghorn Beach.
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Binnend Oilworks Railway
D1935 and 47614 run through Kinghorn, with the Inverness - Ely leg of the 'Lord of the Isles Statesman', on 27th September 2021. ...
Bill Roberton 27/09/2021
45690 Leander speeds away from a very wet Kinghorn with the first 'The Aberdonian' of the season. The Jubilee was a substitute for Tornado which is ...
Bill Roberton 27/07/2023
GBRf 66743 passes Kinghorn with the 'Royal Scotsman' on its way from Edinburgh to Boat of Garten on 19 June 2023.
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Bill Roberton 19/06/2023
A view from the footbridge towards the station building at Kinghorn in August 2021. 170471 has called on an Edinburgh bound service. ...
Mark Bartlett 05/08/2021
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This is a double track four arch masonry viaduct north of Kinghorn station. The viaduct is 159 ft long overall and 42 ft high.
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SB Rail DR77001 and friend await the call to tamp newly laid ballast at Seafield on 19 February 2023. The location is a little to the north of ...
Bill Roberton 19/02/2023
Kinghorn viaduct, 4 arches, taken from the coastal path, a small car repair garage is located under one of the arches, the name of the street on the ...
Alan Cormack 23/04/2017
Great Marquess 3442 north of Kinghorn with an SRPS Fife Circle excursion on 14 September 1994. ...
Bill Roberton /09/1994
Kinghorn viaduct, 4 arches, taken from the coastal path. The station is out of shot, to the left. ...
Alan Cormack 23/04/2017
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This signal box opened with the junction for the new Seafield Colliery in 1963. The box was on the east side of the line. The colliery was also on the east side of the line and approached from the south.
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This was the junction between the 1847 Edinburgh and Northern Railway and the Kirkcaldy District Railway (North British Railway) opened in 1896. Both lines were double track although the newer line became single track as it struck off west of the junction. Approach was from the south.
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Kirkcaldy District Railway (North British Railway)
Ah, the homely discomforts of a first-generation DMU, in this case a Class 117 with its doors between facing seats for maximum toe-treading risk. With ...
David Panton 18/07/1998
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This double track eight arch (one 'blind') viaduct is south of Kirkcaldy station. It is north of the former Invertiel Junction. It is 429 ft long overall and 80 ft high.
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This is a two platform station equipped with large carparks. The main station building is on the southbound platform. The station is on the west side of the town.
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Freightliner 66523 nears Kirkcaldy station, with 6K01 from Cowdenbeath to Millerhill, carrying track panels recovered from the Crossgates area, on 13 ...
Bill Roberton 13/01/2024
158724 calls at Kirkcaldy, with the 10.14 from Perth to Edinburgh, as 800103 arrives with the 07.08 from Leeds to Aberdeen. Note the grey-painted ...
Bill Roberton 27/07/2023
170451 enters Kirkcaldy, with a Fife Circle - Edinburgh service, on 5 August 2021. ...
Bill Roberton 05/08/2021
A display inside Kirkaldy station about Mary Campbell Smith, author of the poem 'The Boy on the Train'. The poem itself is displayed with a photograph ...
John Yellowlees 03/10/2022
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This junction was located at Rosebery Terrace with the main line of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway and the Kirkcaldy Harbour branch running parallel as far as Dunniker Road, the harbour line serving several works and making a second connection, before curving off to the south east down a steeply graded branch to the harbour.
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37100 heads south away from Sinclairtown in 1996 with a Thornton to Mossend freight conveying Carbon Dioxide tanks and a Cerestar starch tank. Behind ...
Bill Roberton //1996
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This was a three platform station to the west of St Clair Street. There were two main line platforms and a bay for trains to the west, on the south side.
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The Railway Club, adjacent to Sinclairtown Goods Yard, on 22nd May 2021. Closed for a couple of years, it will be demolished to make way for a fitness ...
Bill Roberton 22/05/2021
The former Sinclairtown (1st) goods yard with loading bank on the left, looking towards the NCL depot on the other side of the main line on 22 May ...
Bill Roberton 22/05/2021
An Edinburgh - Perth train about to pass through Sinclairtown, a mile north of Kirkcaldy, in August 2008. The train is passing the site of the ...
John Furnevel 22/08/2008
These locos at Sinclairtown can clearly be seen from the train, until the trees come into leaf. I believe they belong to a scrap merchant. Why is ...
John Yellowlees 23/04/2016
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This station replaced Sinclairtown [1st] station, just to the west, in 1909.
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The Network Rail New Measurement Train climbs away from Sinclairtown with a Crewe - Edinburgh - Montrose - Slateford run, on 13 October 2020.
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Bill Roberton 13/10/2020
Sinclairtown station, seen from the back of a DMU bound for Dundee via the Fife Coast line, on 4th September 1964. ...
Brian Haslehust 04/09/1964
The site of the platforms of the second version of Sinclairtown station in a view looking east in 1997. ...
Ewan Crawford //1997
The second of the SRPS 'Forth Circle' railtours of 28 April, hauled by 46115 Scots Guardsman climbs away from Sinclairtown. ...
Bill Roberton 28/04/2012
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This station was to the north of Windmill Road. It was a two platform station.
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37520 nears Dysart, with empty cement tanks from Aberdeen to Oxwellmains, in 1999.
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Bill Roberton //1999
44871 climbs away from Dysart with the SRPS excursion to Fife and the Borders on 20th August 2017.
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Bill Roberton 20/08/2017
47671 passes the site of Dysart station with a train for Inverness in 1992. Later renumbered 47789 for Rail Express Systems duties the former D1925 ...
Bill Roberton //1992
37685 on the rear of the SRPS Borders Railway excursion, returning from Tweedbank on 20th August 2017. The train has just passed Dysart. ...
Bill Roberton 20/08/2017
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This was the junction for the Dysart Colliery Randolph Pit. The pit was sunk in the 1850s. The mineral line ran south east from a loop on the east side of the railway. A signal box was on the west side of the line.
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This station was rebuilt several times due to subsidence. The original station opened to serve the Leven Railway. It was immediately south of Thornton North Junction, between the Burntisland to Ladybank line and the Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway). It was bypassed by the Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway) until later.
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Thornton Junction Station to Thornton West Curve (North British Railway)
This rail braced bridge carries Thornton Junction over the access to Thornton golf club. This view is from the west end of the near tunnel. ...
Duncan Ross 24/07/2021
NBR J37 0-6-0 64570 brings a northbound coal train through a very wet Thornton Junction on 1st October 1965. The photo was taken from the welcome ...
Robin McGregor 01/10/1965
Thornton Junction station, photographed in 1964, with a Metro Cammell DMU in the southbound platform and a sister unit in the loop. ...
Brian Haslehust 04/09/1964
This is a view under the railway, the access road under the ECML to the golf club. Thornton Junction station was just to the south (access to it was ...
Duncan Ross 24/07/2021
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This is a four way junction. To the north the main line runs north to Ladybank and the line branch to Cameron Bridge and Levenmouth, which is being re-doubled and electrified, runs off to the north east.. (This formerly ran to Leven [2nd] and the Fife Coast railway to St Andrews [2nd].) To the south the Dunfermline Branch heads west from the main line which runs south to ...

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Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway)
Leven Railway
Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway
Freightliner 66536 leads the empty ballast wagons from the Levenmouth branch drop past Thornton North Junction on 22 August 2022. 66532 was dead on ...
Bill Roberton 22/08/2022
LNER Azuma 800104 climbs away from Thornton North Junction with the 10.00 from Kings Cross to Aberdeen on 26 October 2022.
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Bill Roberton 26/10/2022
Grab shot from a passing train of the relaid Levenmouth branch. The single track extends for about a mile. ...
Bill Roberton 15/07/2023
09.52 Aberdeen to Kings Cross, Azuma 800103, passing Thornton North Junction on 1 June 2021. On the right is the slumbering Levenmouth branch.
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Bill Roberton 01/06/2021
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This signal box was on the northern approaches to Thornton North Junction.
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Leven Railway


This double track ten arch viaduct is south of Markinch station. It is 528 ft long overall and 78 ft high.
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Azuma 800111 passes Coaltown of Balgonie with the 09.52 from Aberdeen to Kings Cross. Markinch is in the background.
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Bill Roberton 10/02/2022
Markinch to Edinburgh local train shortly after leaving Markinch passes over Markinch Viaduct. FSR class 170. ...
Brian Forbes 23/08/2008
A GNER Aberdeen bound HST heads north over Markinch Viaduct on 1 May 2005. The station is off picture to the left. View is east along the A911 road ...
John Furnevel 01/05/2005
A GNER HST crossing the A911 road on Markinch Viaduct in May 2005 - photographed looking east. ...
John Furnevel 01/05/2005
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This is a two platform station with a car park on the west side. The original station building, by architect David Bell, sill stands, a three storey building with the top two floors at road level and ground floor at platform level. There were timber waiting rooms at platform level. A large retaining wall runs down the east side of the station.
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Leslie Railway
170413 calls at Markinch, with the 14.27 from Perth to Edinburgh, alongside 170428 with the 14.00 from Edinburgh to Dundee on 10 October 2023.
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Bill Roberton 10/10/2023
170413 nears Markinch with the 14.27 from Perth to Edinburgh on 10 October 2023.
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Bill Roberton 10/10/2023
1Q26, the Network Rail measurement train running from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, then Slateford, passes Markinch powered by 43274 and 43277 on 10 October ...
Bill Roberton 10/10/2023
The 15.30 from Edinburgh to Aberdeen passes Markinch on 12th July 2021, powered by 43175 and 43028. To the left is the relay room.
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Bill Roberton 12/07/2021
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This coal depot siding was north of Markinch station, located on the west side and approached from the south.
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The former Co-op siding at Markinch, seen from a passing Inverness-bound train in May 1985. See image 35591 ...
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Just north of Markinch Station was a short siding serving a co-op coal yard. It did not last long after this 1975 photograph was taken. ...
Bill Roberton //1975
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Lochmuir Summit was to the west of Lochmuir Wood. A signal box opened here in 1901 with a siding on the west side, approached from the south. The signal box was at the south end of the siding.
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60009 Union of South Africa with the Inverness - Aberdeen - Edinburgh leg of the Great Britain VII tour on 3 May, climbing towards ...
Bill Roberton 03/05/2014
Aberdeen-bound National Express HST service climbing to Lochmuir Summit, north of Markinch, on 12 March 2009. ...
Bill Roberton 12/03/2009
Scene just north of Markinch on 12 March as an Aberdeen-bound NXEC service approaches on the climb to Lochmuir Summit. ...
Bill Roberton 12/03/2009
47541 breasts Lochmuir Summit with a service for Aberdeen on 18th August 1990. For a 1979 comparison see image 57841. ...
Graeme Blair 18/08/1990
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This was a two platform station. The main building building, on the northbound platform, survived into the 1980s.
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170417, on an Edinburgh to Arbroath service, approaches the site of Falkland Road station on 16th September 2021. ...
Mark Bartlett 16/09/2021
Although a proposed railway to the historic village of Falkland was never built there was a station known as Falkland Road, around three miles away, ...
Mark Bartlett 16/09/2021
View of Falkland Road in 1964, taken from the rear of a southbound diesel unit. The station had closed six years earlier. See image 78354 for a ...
Brian Haslehust 04/09/1964
Late evening returning golf special heads for Edinburgh on 18 July near Falkland Road. ...
Brian Forbes 18/07/2007
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This was a two platform station with the northern part of the platforms partly over Station Road.
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1727 Edinburgh to Inverness passing Freuchie Mill Road near Kingskettle. ...
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A 5-car 158+170 combination heading north past Kingskettle on Sunday afternoon 3 April 2011. ...
Brian Forbes 03/04/2011
60009 coasts downhill with The North Briton near Kingskettle, Fife, on 13 April 2008. ...
Brian Forbes 13/04/2008
A class 170 rounds the long bend through Kingskettle, heading for Ladybank. ...
Brian Forbes 14/05/2007
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This junction was south of Ladybank station on the west side of the line. Via a headshunt, approached from the north, the Fife and Kinross Railway could be reached and its bay platform on the west side of the station. Between the junction and the bay platform was a loop to allow the branch trains to run round. Malt Barns Siding was on the branch, approached by a headshunt. There were ...

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Fife and Kinross Railway
Removal of vegetation in (non-railway) groundworks immediately to the southwest of Ladybank station has revealed this struture in all its modest ...
David Panton 03/10/2018
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This is a two platform station with the main original station building on the northbound platform, architect probably David Bell. The building is a complicated structure with different numbers of storeys.
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Fife and Kinross Railway
With a severe right turn at the junction ahead, 800106 runs sedately through the platforms at Ladybank on a Kings Cross to Aberdeen service on 2nd ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2021
An Arbroath to Edinburgh service calls at Ladybank on 2 September 2020. The shelters are unsympathetic to the original buildings on both sides. At ...
David Panton 02/09/2020
170410, on the 1334hrs from Edinburgh to Perth on 2nd August 2022, left Ladybank almost on time, but immediately had a scheduled wait of nine minutes ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2022
27036 southbound through Ladybank in Fife, heading for Edinburgh on 13 November 1981.
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Peter Todd 13/11/1981
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This siding, west of Springfield, gave access to the Cults and Pitlessie Lime Works Railway which ran south. A pair of sidings made a trailing connection to the southbound line, these sidings were a headshunt for the branch. There was a short loop on the branch close to the connection. A signal box as located on the north side of the main line.
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Cults and Pitlessie Lime Works Railway


This is a two platform station. The building design is the smaller style of station on the former Edinburgh and Northern Railway by David Bell. The building is on the southbound platform.
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Standing on platform 2 at Springfield, Fife, on a fine May morning in in 2005 looking north towards Cupar. The 1847 Edinburgh & Northern Railway ...
John Furnevel 22/05/2005
Like the majority of trains, 170396 hurried through Springfield on 16th September 2021. This was an Edinburgh to Arbroath working. The only trains ...
Mark Bartlett 16/09/2021
A flight of steep steps from the road to Springfield's platform, but there is also a ramp for vehicles to the side. The station house is now privately ...
Mark Bartlett 16/09/2021
Few trains call at Springfield but this Arbroath to Edinburgh service is one of them. It is the lovely warm evening of 23 July 2019. Note the 'H' car ...
David Panton 23/07/2019
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This is a two platform station dating from 1847. The architect of the main station building on the northbound platform is thought to be David Bell. The central portion is two storey with a double arched entry. To the sides are single storey wings which link to two storey blocks on either side. A flat roofed canopy runs the full length on the platform side. The building on the southbound ...

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170393 calls at Cupar, with the 11.40 from Dundee to Edinburgh, on 4th October 2022..
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Bill Roberton 04/10/2022
The signal box at Cupar seen from the station in 1998. ...
Roger Geach Collection /11/1998
170393 leaves Cupar, with the 10.02 from Edinburgh to Dundee, on 4th October 2022.
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Bill Roberton 04/10/2022
Azuma 800104 runs through Cupar with the 09.52 from Aberdeen to Kings Cross. The original Edinburgh & Northern Railway goods shed can be seen to the ...
Bill Roberton 15/07/2023
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This signal box controlled access to the considerable sugar beet factory east of Cupar (and west of Dairsie).
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Beet Factory signal box controlled the access to and from Scotland's only sugar beet factory at Cupar. The factory itself closed at the end of the ...
John Clark /04/1971
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This two platform station was some way to the south of Dairsie (also known as Osnaburgh) with the platforms partly crossing over the minor road between Dairsie and Kemback. A loading bank, served by a goods loop, was to the north of the station on the west side. The signal box was at the north end of the southbound platform.
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66743, on a Royal Scotsman ECS working from Dundee to Edinburgh, has just passed the site of Dairsie station on 24th August 2018. The station ...
Mark Bartlett 24/08/2018
A 1997 view towards Leuchars from the former loading bank at Dairsie. [Ref query 810] The passenger station was behind the camera. ...
Ewan Crawford //1997
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This junction was just south of Leuchars and faced that station. Originally the junction station was Leuchars [1st], somewhat further north. ...

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St Andrews Railway
Site of Leuchars South Jct. The St Andrews and Fife Coast Line left to the left at the clearing. nb location was also known as Milton Jct. (sorry for ...
Brian Forbes 10/06/2007
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This is an island platform station which today is the closest to St Andrews. There is a car park on the east side of the station.
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Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
St Andrews Railway
Leuchars box looking south to the station in 1996. ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
Local primary school pupils have helped turn their local station into an art gallery, thanks to the ScotRail station adopters at Leuchars.
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ScotRail /11/2019
Leuchars, looking south, seen from 170418 from Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley, on the evening of 22nd July 2017. Once the junction for the Fife Coast ...
David Bosher 22/07/2017
Under construction at Leuchars - a new Caledonian Sleeper lounge. ...
John Yellowlees 24/03/2018
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This was a four platform station. A bay existed on either side for the [St Andrews Railway] branch. To the south of the station was a small yard on the west side of the line. The main station building was on the southbound platform.
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St Andrews Railway
View north at the site of the original Leuchars station in 1996. The station occupied the car park to the left (a bay) and the pavement (double track ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
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This siding was located between Leuchars (Old) and Tayport. The siding was located on the double track line between those two stations. Access to the siding was by reversal from the southbound line.
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Brian Forbes 25/03/2007
View West to Tayport from the Rhynd Farm Crossing. Line closed 1955. ...
Brian Forbes 25/03/2007
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Newport Railway
View from the Bell Rock Hotel, across the level crossing and Tayport station site on 8th August 2018. Broughty Ferry is in the distance.
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Gary Straiton 08/08/2018
Extract from the Scottish Region timetable for winter 1960-61 showing the Tayport and St Andrews lines. Guard Bridge had a peak-hours only ...
David Panton 12/09/1960
In 1996 one solitary building from the railway remained, the brick building off to the right. This has since been demolished. The brick wall, which ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
The housing covers a large goods yard. Centre of pier was where tramp steamers tied up. There was a wagon tip-up which when the door was opened ...
Brian Forbes /03/2007
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Ladybank to Perth

This is a two platform station with the main original station building on the northbound platform, architect probably David Bell. The building is a complicated structure with different numbers of storeys.
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Fife and Kinross Railway
With a severe right turn at the junction ahead, 800106 runs sedately through the platforms at Ladybank on a Kings Cross to Aberdeen service on 2nd ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2021
An Arbroath to Edinburgh service calls at Ladybank on 2 September 2020. The shelters are unsympathetic to the original buildings on both sides. At ...
David Panton 02/09/2020
170410, on the 1334hrs from Edinburgh to Perth on 2nd August 2022, left Ladybank almost on time, but immediately had a scheduled wait of nine minutes ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2022
27036 southbound through Ladybank in Fife, heading for Edinburgh on 13 November 1981.
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Peter Todd 13/11/1981
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Aligned with the Perth route were two buildings, Ladybank Works and locomotive shed, both on the east side of the line. The works building still stands and is an excellent early survivor.
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The disused coaling stage at Ladybank shed photographed on the occasion of an EURS brake van trip over the then freight only line to Hilton Junction ...
Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971
Once a busy sub-shed of Thornton (62A), those days were long gone at Ladybank by March 1971 - except that a class 08 shunter stabled near the former ...
Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971
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Aligned with the Perth route were two buildings, a works building and locomotive shed, both on the east side of the line. The works building still stood, out of use since 1973, until its roof collapsed (around 2011?). It was demolished around 2014. It was an excellent early survivor.
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Interior of Ladybank Works in 2008 with the roof beginning to deteriorate badly. The roof of the shed collapsed subsequently and the site has been ...
Bill Roberton //2008
Interior of Ladybank Works in 2002, showing the entrance doors at the south end. ...
Bill Roberton //2002
Interior of Ladybank Works in 2002. The roof of the shed collapsed subsequently and the site has been cleared. ...
Bill Roberton //2002
Interior of Ladybank Works in 2002. The roof of the shed collapsed subsequently and the site has been cleared. ...
Bill Roberton //2002
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This was a two platform station with a bay (the goods siding) on the northbound platform at the north end. Opposite this was a signal box. The north end was built over a road bridge. The box was to close in 1934 when the line was singled.
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37409 + 37405 climb past Collessie with an SRPS Linlithgow - Kyle of Lochalsh tour on 19th September 1998. ...
Graeme Blair 19/09/1998
The 1526 ex-Ladybank heads for Perth past fields near the Fife village of Collessie in the summer of 2010. ...
Brian Forbes /06/2010
The Western Chieftain railtour passes Collessie on 21 June. ...
Brian Forbes 21/06/2009
Fife Animal Park and Bistro, Collessie. The peak is East Lomond. A turbostar heads for Ladybank. ...
Brian Forbes 26/04/2007
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This was a temporary terminus of the line from Ladybank before it was extended west ultimately to Hilton Junction.
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47817 approaches Abdie with a diverted overnight London - Inverness service. Originally constructed with double track throughout most of the Ladybank ...
Graeme Blair 29/07/1990
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The Edinburgh and Northern Railway, a double track line, was met by the single track Newburgh and North Fife Railway. The St Fort line doubled before joining and had a looped refuge siding.
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Newburgh and North Fife Railway
Photographed from the former loading bank on 13.9.86, 37260 is seen heading a Perth - Edinburgh ecs working. ...
Graeme Blair 13/09/1986
Standing roughly at the same spot as Bill Roberton see image 57550 but looking in the opposite direction, 37175 passes Glenburnie on 2.9.94 with ...
Graeme Blair 02/09/1994
The 6inch OS map of 1854 shows a siding and building at Glenburnie on the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee railway between Newburgh and Lindores. Neither ...
Bill Roberton //1988
170 418 forms the 1159 Perth-Edinburgh service, just south of Lindores Loch on the Hilton Junction-Ladybank line ...
Bill Roberton 20/02/2009
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This was a short lived terminus before the line from Ladybank was extended west to Abernethy Road.
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Newburgh and North Fife Railway
A diverted southbound HST heading towards the former Glenburnie Junction. ...
Bill Roberton //1988
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Kirkcaldy Harbour Branch

This junction was located at Rosebery Terrace with the main line of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway and the Kirkcaldy Harbour branch running parallel as far as Dunniker Road, the harbour line serving several works and making a second connection, before curving off to the south east down a steeply graded branch to the harbour.
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The former Kirkcaldy Corporation Tramways power station in Victoria Road. Operating from 1902 the tramway closed in 1931 but the power plant continued ...
Bill Roberton 25/08/2018
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Kirkcaldy Harbour in 1981. To the right are the flour mill sidings with grain hoppers parked. The branch up to the main line veers left. There are ...
Bill Roberton //1981
Road entrance to Kirkcaldy harbour on a quiet Sunday morning in the summer of 2007, more than 23 years after the line from Harbour Branch Junction had ...
John Furnevel 22/07/2007
Kirkcaldy Harbour in 1984, with the branch line in the course of removal.
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Bill Roberton //1984
Looking down the Kirkcaldy Harbour branch with the A921 bridge in the middle distance. This and most of the buildings shown would be removed in the ...
Bill Roberton /02/1991
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Burntisland West Dock

This junction was east of the 1847 Burntisland [1st] terminus and its 1890 replacement Burntisland.
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67025 passes Burntisland Links on 13 August with the 17.08 Edinburgh - Fife Circle service. ...
Bill Roberton 13/08/2010
Edinburgh bound 170 470 passes the disused Burntisland Junction on 18 April 2009. The junction once provided access to Burntisland docks and ...
David Panton 18/04/2009
Freightliner 66593 with a train of concrete sleepers at Burntisland. A machine is tamping the trackbed in preparation for setting out the sleepers. ...
Bill Roberton 13/01/2019
DBS 68003 passes Burntisland links with the evening Cardenden - Mossend empty stock working. The loco is passing over the severed link to the docks. ...
Bill Roberton 05/04/2016
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This dock is in Burntisland Harbour. There is a dock gate. Burntisland Shipyard, to the west, remains open.
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A fragment of the old railway sidings at Burntisland, between Sailor's Walk and the infilled Inner Harbour, on 28 February 2023.
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Bill Roberton 28/02/2023
Burntisland West Dock viewed from above in a postcard view showing the central quay. The station is distant left, out of the view. ...
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Burntisland East Dock

This junction was east of Burntisland and Burntisland Junction. It opened in 1901 along with the associated Lammerlaws Yard and Burntisland East Dock.
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LNER Azuma 800103 passes Burntisland Links with the 14.52 from Aberdeen to York on 25 March 2021.
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Bill Roberton 25/03/2021
170401 nears the site of Burntisland East Junction with the 13.15 from Aberdeen to Edinburgh on 30 April 2022.
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Bill Roberton 30/04/2022
Caledonian Sleeper 73969 and 73971 sit above Kinghorn Road, Burntisland on engineers' duties on 28 February 2021.
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Bill Roberton 28/02/2021
66 101 stands at the head of a ballast train at Burntisland East Junction during Sunday engineering works on 14 June 2009 ...
David Panton 14/06/2009
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This yard was approached from the east at Burntisland East Junction and was divided into a portion for the north side of Burntisland East Dock and south side portion.
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Burntisland Dock sidings in 2005, being prepared for removal to the Kingdom of Fife Railway Preservation Society's site at Kirkland Yard, Leven.
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Bill Roberton //2005
Looking east over Lammerlaws Yard at Burntisland in 1990, with the Up main line in the foreground. Sidings covered most of the flat ground for coal ...
Bill Roberton //1990
The eastern end of Burntisland Dock sidings in 1987. The lines continued to the East Junction until 1979.
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Bill Roberton //1987
Burntisland Dock sidings looking in good shape in 1984.
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Bill Roberton //1984
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This is the larger dock at the harbour of Burntisland. There is a dock gate at the west end. This dock was formerly associate with the shipping of coal from the extensive Fife coal field's mines.
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Lost Railfreight. Looking east at Burntisland docks in 1975, with 16T mineral wagons being loaded from a barge carrying bauxite. #COP26 ...
Bill Roberton //1975
Bulk handling barges Nos 5 & 6 moored at Burntisland in 1986. These and others were used for bringing Bauxite ore to the dockside from large ships in ...
Bill Roberton //1986
Looking west at Burntisland Dock in 1986 with Bulk handling barge No.5 alongside the unloading crane. The barges were used to tranship bauxite from ...
Bill Roberton //1986
The sparsely populated Burntisland Docks in July 2002. ...
John Furnevel 30/07/2002
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This pier opened in 1901 to replace the Burntisland Albert Pier which was removed during the construction of the Burntisland East Dock.
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The now-demolished ticket office for the Burntisland to Granton train ferry, on the New Pier in 1993. In the background is the 1847 station. ...
Bill Roberton //1983
The passenger paddle steamer 'William Muir' enjoyed a long service between 1879 and 1937. Introduced on the Granton-Burntisland with the increase in ...
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The Burntisland Ferry Booking Office in 1973, demolished a few years later to make way for a short-lived hovercraft operation. The lettering on the ...
Bill Roberton //1973
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