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All photographs of this railway in date order.
![125 passing Burntisland Award Beach, May Day 2002.<br><br>[Calum McMahon //]](/images/3000/3392.jpg "Burntisland")
![Looking north over Kinghorn Station with a southbound sprinter and the North Sea in the background.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3395.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Seafield Colliery looking north in the V of the junction between the colliery sidings (right) and main line (out of sight left).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3396.jpg "Seafield Colliery")
![The main line and remains of the goods yard at the north end of Kirkcaldy Station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3397.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![A 101 awaits departure from Kirkcaldy for Edinburgh.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3398.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The junction between the Frances Pit lines (right - lifted) and the main line. The view looks north. The line to the pit was on the extreme right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3399.jpg "Frances Pit")
![Falkland Road looking north. There was a station building on the left until the 1980s.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3401.jpg "Falkland Road")
![Markinch looking north. The sidings on the left led to a goods shed which until recently housed the A4 Pacific Union of South Africa steam locomotive.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3402.jpg "Markinch")
![Markinch looking south at Markinch Junction. The main line disappears into the background centre. The lines on the right led from the goods yard on to the branch to Leslie, now cut back to Auchmuty which is now out of use.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3403.jpg "Markinch")
![Markinch viaduct to the south of the station. The view looks west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3404.jpg "Markinch Viaduct")
![Ladybank Junction looking north. The line on the left goes to Perth and the one to the right to Dundee.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3405.jpg "Ladybank")
![A southbound train passing Lindores Loch.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3406.jpg "Glenburnie Junction")
![37 hauled Edinburgh to Inverness train passing Bridge of Earn. The junction for the line to Kinross was behind the train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7685.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![The sidings that were to the south of Markinch station. The lines to the right led to the Auchmuty Paper Mill and formerly to Leslie.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/11000/11901.jpg "Markinch")
![Newburgh signal box - late 1970s.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/19000/19517.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![A B1 4-6-0 drifts through Thornton Junction <I>light engine</I> on a summer evening in the mid-1960s. Thornton Junction station closed in October 1969. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/22000/22839.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Reid ex-NBR N15 no 69143 on shed at Thornton Junction in the late 1950s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/23000/23804.jpg "Thornton Junction Shed")
![B1 no 61099 on shed at 62A Thornton Junction in the early 1960s. In the background beyond the coaling stage is <I>the snake pit</I> [see image 23695]<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/28000/28607.jpg "Thornton Junction Shed")
![Sunshine and steam in the shed yard at Thornton Junction in the 1960s. J38 no 65911 takes centre stage with Austerity 90444 standing over on the left. Both were Thornton locomotives and both were withdrawn in the first quarter of 1967, just before the official closure to steam of 62A itself. Beyond the coaling plant in the right background the curved roof of <I>The snake pit</I> can be seen [see image 23695]. <br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/29000/29528.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Totem from Thornton Junction station which closed in 1969. So riddled was this area with mine workings that it is said that it was a constant battle to keep the platform surface level. The station was not particularly convenient for the village which, along with the closure of the East Fife Line for which it was the junction, probably secured its demise. Thornton did become rail served again in 1992 when Glenrothes with Thornton station opened at the top of the Fife Circle. It is nearer the centre of the village, if nowhere near the centre of Glenrothes (or indeed the outskirts).<br><br>[David Panton //]](/images/32000/32935.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Class D11 4-4-0 no 62679 <I>'Lord Glenallan'</I> stands in the shed yard at Thornton Junction in the late 1950s. The locomotive was withdrawn from here in September 1958 and cut up at Inverurie works a year later.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/37000/37254.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J72 0-6-0T 69012 stands in the sidings at Thornton Junction in the late 1950s. Standing beyond is N15 0-6-2T 69132. One of the towers of Rothes Colliery can be seen in the background.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/45000/45296.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Remains of an old Midland coach alongside the line at Ladybank in 1990. [Ref query 410]<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/57000/57653.jpg "Ladybank")
![CR Pickersgill 4.4.0 54500 on Perth - Queen Street train. Passing Bridge of Earn Junction.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 12/05/1951]](/images/16000/16382.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![CR Pickersgill 4.4.0 54500 on Perth - Queen Street train. At Bridge of Earn.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 12/05/1951]](/images/16000/16383.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Aberdeen - Edinburgh Express V2 2.6.2 60892. Thornton Junction 19.4.1954<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/04/1954]](/images/9000/9182.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Reid N15 0-6-2T no 69143 stands in a siding at Thornton in July 1958. In the background is one of the towers of Rothes Colliery, opened by HM The Queen that year and hailed as one of the new generation of <I>Superpits</I> with a projected lifespan of 100 years. The decision was taken to abandon the site 4 years later due to flooding and geological problems.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/07/1958]](/images/21000/21655.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Reid ex-NBR <I>Scott</I> class 4-4-0 no 62442 <I>Simon Glover</I> stands at Thornton in July 1958. Officially withdrawn by BR that year, the locomotive was cut up in February of 1960 at Motherwell Machinery & Scrap, Wishaw.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/07/1958]](/images/21000/21668.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Gresley K2 2-6-0 No 61787 <I>Loch Quoich</I> at Thornton Junction on 29 July 1958. Built by Kitson & Co at their Leeds works in 1921 the locomotive spent most of its life on the West Highland line before withdrawal by BR in October 1959. Two months later 61787 became one of the 60 plus locomotives cut up by Arnott Young at Old Kilpatrick.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/07/1958]](/images/21000/21715.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![62475 <I>Glen Beasdale</I> in the storage sidings at Thornton in the Autumn of 1959, with the enclosed headgear of Rothes Colliery in the background. The <I>Glen</I> had been withdrawn from 62A in June and was subsequently taken to Connels of Calder for cutting up in February of 1960. <br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/25000/25102.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Not quite the end of the line! McIntosh ex-Caledonian 0-4-4T no 55217 photographed while 'stored' at Thornton Junction in 1959. The locomotive subsequently experienced a new lease of life after being sent to Oban shed, presumably to work on the Ballachulish branch trains. 55217 was finally withdrawn from Oban in the summer of 1962 and cut up at Inverurie Works two months later.<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/30000/30460.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Class D49 4-4-0 no 62728 <I>Cheshire</I> photographed on shed at Thornton Junction, thought to have been taken in 1959, the year of its withdrawal.<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/31000/31660.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Scott class 4-4-0 no 62418 <I>The Pirate</I> stands on the disposal line at Thornton in 1959.<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/36000/36504.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Class J88 0-6-0T no 68335 stands alongside the repair shop at Thornton Junction in 1959. After spending its post-nationalisation years at Thornton, the locomotive was transferred to Haymarket in late December that year, where its duties included shunting the yards at Gorgie East [see image 32639]. The 1904 veteran ended its days at Dawsholm in 1962.<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/36000/36548.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Scott class 4-4-0 no 62418 <I>The Pirate</I> stands in the sidings at Thornton Junction. The photograph is thought to have been taken in 1959, the year of its withdrawal from 62A. <br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/45000/45364.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Photograph taken looking north east from Dunfermline MPD on 11 February 1959 as 62492 <i>Glen Garvin</i> heads east along the embankment between Dunfermline Upper station and Touch North Junction - possibly hauling a workmen's train, given the non-corridor stock. The locomotive was withdrawn from Thornton Junction shed some 4 months later.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 11/02/1959]](/images/27000/27091.jpg "Dunfermline Town")
![Gresley Ex-LNER class D49 4-4-0 62744 <I>The Holderness</I> in the stored locomotive sidings alongside Thornton Junction shed in May 1959. The locomotive was later reprieved and transferred to Hawick shed in April 1960, where it survived for a further 8 months [see image 24467].<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/05/1959]](/images/19000/19914.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Gresley Ex-LNER D49 62716 <I>Kincardineshire</I> on the withdrawn line at Thornton Junction in 1959.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/05/1959]](/images/19000/19980.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Reid ex-NB class J88 0-6-0 68322 out of use at Thornton Junction in May 1959.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/05/1959]](/images/20000/20142.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![McIntosh ex-Caledonian 2P 0-4-4T 55217 on shed at Thornton Junction in May 1959. The locomotive had been a regular on the Blairgowrie branch until its closure in 1955 [see image 7371]. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/05/1959]](/images/20000/20186.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Class D11 4-4-0 62677 <I>Edie Ochiltree</I> stands in the sidings at Thornton Junction on 19 May 1959.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/05/1959]](/images/20000/20994.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Lineup of locomotives at Thornton Junction shed, including class D11/2 no 62678 <I>Luckie Mucklebackit</I>. Photographed in 1959, the year of its withdrawal. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/05/1959]](/images/21000/21386.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Class J83 68459 stands on the stored locomotive line at Thornton Junction in 1959.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/05/1959]](/images/21000/21445.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![The signal box at Tayport North in 1962.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1962]](/images/33000/33830.jpg "Tayport")
![B1 4-6-0 no 61403 stands in the rain at 62A Thornton Junction in 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 23/11/1963]](/images/31000/31427.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J37 0-6-0s 64549 and 64564 standing in the shed yard at Thornton Junction on 23 November 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 23/11/1963]](/images/49000/49071.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![WD Austerity 2-8-0 no 90350 in the shed yard at Thornton Junction in October 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/10/1964]](/images/33000/33134.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J37 64637 stands in the shed yard at Thornton on 30 October 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/10/1964]](/images/34000/34262.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J37 0-6-0 no 64632 stands in the shed yard at Thornton Junction in October 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/10/1964]](/images/41000/41866.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![B1 4-6-0 no 61147 in the shed yard at Thornton in October 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/10/1964]](/images/42000/42056.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J37 0-6-0 no 64606 near Burntisland East Junction in 1965.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //1965]](/images/30000/30882.jpg "Burntisland East Junction")
![Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junction with RCTS Fife Coast Tour from Glasgow St Enoch.<br><br>[G W Robin 28/08/1965]](/images/21000/21288.jpg "Leuchars Junction")
![J37 0-6-0 no 64569 at Leuchars Junction on 28 August 1965 with the RCTS <I>Fife Coast Rail Tour</I> getting ready to leave for St Andrews. [See image 20522]<br><br>[G W Robin 28/08/1965]](/images/45000/45658.jpg "Leuchars Junction")
![Preserved NBR 4-4-0 no 256 <I>Glen Douglas</I> at Thornton Junction on 28 August 1965 with the RCTS <I>Fife Coast Rail Tour</I>.<br><br>[G W Robin 28/08/1965]](/images/45000/45866.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![The RCTS <I>Fife Coast Rail Tour</I> at Leuchars Junction on 28 August 1965, with J37 0-6-0 no 64569 preparing to set off for Thornton Junction via the Fife Coast line. At Thornton the J37 will hand over to no 249 <I>Glen Douglas</I> for the remainder of the tour. [See image 45866]<br><br>[G W Robin 28/08/1965]](/images/47000/47110.jpg "Leuchars Junction")
![Class J37 0-6-0 no 64569 stands on Thornton Junction shed on 19 October 1965.<br><br>[K A Gray 19/10/1965]](/images/32000/32056.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![B1 4-6-0 no 61133 stands on Thornton shed. Thought to have been taken during a visit in October 1965.<br><br>[K A Gray 19/10/1965]](/images/32000/32487.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![B1 4-6-0 no 61132 near Thornton Weighs signal box in October 1965 with Thornton Junction shed behind the camera. [See image 27241]<br><br>[K A Gray 19/10/1965]](/images/33000/33514.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J37 0-6-0 no 64625 in the shed yard at Thornton in October 1965, one month after official withdrawal.<br><br>[K A Gray 19/10/1965]](/images/35000/35488.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Gresley J38 0-6-0 no 65915 on shed at Thornton Junction, thought to have been photographed on 19 October 1965. The locomotive was eventually withdrawn from here just over a year later.<br><br>[K A Gray 19/10/1965]](/images/40000/40392.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Part of the shed yard at Thornton Junction on 19 October 1965, with J38 0-6-0 no 65934 nearest the camera and B1 4-6-0 no 61103 standing beyond.<br><br>[K A Gray 19/10/1965]](/images/41000/41635.jpg "Thornton Junction Shed")
![Scene at Thornton Junction in October 1965. J37 0-6-0 no 64569 simmers in the yard, while in the right background is class 08 no D3342. <br><br>[K A Gray 19/10/1965]](/images/42000/42385.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Ex-NB J36 0-6-0 65327 stands out of use in the shed yard at Thornton Junction on 19 October 1965, one month before its official withdrawal by BR. <br><br>[K A Gray 19/10/1965]](/images/51000/51448.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![WD Austerity 2-8-0 no 90640 at Thornton Junction in 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/35000/35828.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J38 0-6-0 no 65922 in the shed yard at Thornton Junction in the summer of 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/39000/39343.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![B1 61349 stands in the sidings alongside Thornton shed around the time of its withdrawal in the summer of 1966. The towers of Rothes Colliery dominate the background. <br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/41000/41081.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J38 0-6-0 no 65914 photographed on its home shed at Thornton Junction in the summer of 1966. The locomotive was withdrawn from here some 3 months later and cut up at Arnott Young, Old Kilpatrick, in mid 1967.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/42000/42284.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![One of Thornton Junction's J38s, no 65922, stabled in the shed yard in the summer of 1966. The 0-6-0 was withdrawn from here in October that year. <br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/42000/42946.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Gresley J38 0-6-0 no 65929 photographed in the shed yard at 62A Thornton Junction in the summer of 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/43000/43324.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Inside looking out. View from Thornton shed in the summer of 1966, with 62A based B1 no 61132 apparently enjoying the sunshine in the yard. The 4-6-0 was withdrawn from here in September of that year. <br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/43000/43639.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![B1 61308 stands in the sidings at Thornton Junction in the summer of 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/45000/45398.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![A pair of B1s in the shed yard at Thornton in the summer of 1966, with 61148 nearest the camera.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/46000/46411.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Locomotives in the shed yard at Thornton Junction in 1966, with Gresley J38 no 65920 centre stage and Reid J37 no 64623 beyond.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/46000/46871.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J37 0-6-0 64569 stabled in the shed yard at Thornton Junction in the summer of 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/50000/50784.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Steam in the shadows, on shed at Thornton Junction in the summer of 1966. Class J38 0-6-0 no 65931 is standing on the left. The locomotive was withdrawn from Dunfermline shed in September of that year and cut up at Shipbreaking Industries, Faslane, the following January.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/60000/60546.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J36 0-6-0 no 65327 stored in the yard at Thornton Junction shed, thought to be in August 1966. The locomotive had been withdrawn from here 9 months earlier and was subsequently cut up at Motherwell Machinery & Scrap, Wishaw, a month after the photograph was taken.<br><br>[K A Gray /08/1966]](/images/43000/43998.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J36 0-6-0 no 65345 on the Thornton scrap line in 1967.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1967]](/images/38000/38364.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![WD Austerity 2-8-0 no 90020 on shed at Thornton Junction on 11 June 1967.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 11/06/1967]](/images/22000/22846.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![J36 no 65345 stands under the <I>maintenance canopy</I> at Thornton Junction on 11 June 1967, around 2 months after the shed had been officially closed to steam. [Railscot note: This surviving wartime structure, known as a <I>light tunnel</I> was introduced by the LNER to facilitate locomotive maintenance during the blackout. It was 80 ft long and had whitened walls, which were fitted with fluorescent lighting, as was the white glazed brick inspection pit. All lighting was cut off automatically whenever the doors fitted to each end of the tunnel were opened. Thornton men referred to it as <I>The snake pit</I>. [See <I>Living with Locos</I> by Charlie Meacher.]<br><br>[David Pesterfield 11/06/1967]](/images/23000/23695.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Gresley V2 no 60836 stands in the sidings at Thornton in June 1967 awaiting disposal. The locomotive had been withdrawn from 62B Dundee, Tay Bridge, at the end of 1966, although it was observed at St Margarets the following March, having been put to use on steam heating duties at Craigentinny CS. The V2 was used during the first quarter of 1967, alternating with Black 5 45483. B1 61180 seems to have taken over in April and was in turn replaced by Black 5 44997 in May, with the operation ceasing in June 1967. 60836 was eventually cut up at MMS, Wishaw, in July of 1967<br><br>[David Pesterfield 11/06/1967]](/images/24000/24572.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Withdrawn from 62B, Dundee Tay Bridge, two months earlier, no 61180 is seen here in the sidings at Thornton on 11 June 1967. The B1 was presumably on its way to Wishaw where it was cut up at the Motherwell Machinery and Scrap Co at the end of July.<br>
<br><br>[David Pesterfield 11/06/1967]](/images/25000/25368.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Begrimed Class 40 No. D278 passes Newburgh with a lengthy Millerhill - Perth working on 10th April 1969. The location is halfway between the 1st and 2nd stations. Prior to 1960, four tracks existed at this point - two running lines & two sidings.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 10/04/1969]](/images/58000/58798.jpg "Newburgh")
![View north east along the original (1848) route through Cowdenbeath in the early 1960s. This section of the line, which closed in 1966, ran past the former Lumphinnans No 1 Colliery towards Lumphinnans Central Junction.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //196X]](/images/40000/40014.jpg "Lumphinnans Central Junction")
![An Edinburgh University Railway Society brake van trip at the British Aluminium works, Burntisland, in the summer of 1971.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1971]](/images/26000/26767.jpg "Burntisland")
![Two BRCW Types 2s leaving Burntisland with an Aberdeen - Edinburgh express in the summer of 1971, while another shunts freight traffic in the sidings.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1971]](/images/28000/28840.jpg "Burntisland")
![Looking west over Newburgh Station in 1971 with signalling renewals underway. There are coal wagons in the goods yard on the right.<br><br>[Bill Roberton
//1971]](/images/54000/54033.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Ladybank Junction signalbox in March 1971. The photograph is taken from a passing Millerhill to Inverness freight, to which a number of extra brake vans had been attached for the benefit of an Edinburgh University Railway Society party anxious to 'bash' the freight line through Newburgh. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/35000/35996.jpg "Ladybank")
![Bridge of Earn signalbox is the focus of attention for the camera toting members of the EURS party as the afternoon Millerhill to Inverness freight passes on the line from Ladybank on 3 March 1971. The disused double track of the Glenfarg line, closed some fourteen months previously can be glimpsed between the box and train. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/36000/36056.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![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 on 3 March 1971. Ladybank still operated a class 08 DE pilot at that time and this is stabled just out of frame next to the brake van on the right. Latterly a sub shed to 62A Thornton Junction, Ladybank shed was officially closed in December 1958 and demolished during the 1970s.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/36000/36150.jpg "Ladybank")
![In March 1971 Bridge of Earn signal box no longer had any traffic off the Glenfarg line but was still required as this was the point where the double track from Hilton Junction reduced to single towards Newburgh and Ladybank. The track layout between here and Hilton Junction would later be altered so that control passed to the latter, following which Bridge of Earn box was closed.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/36000/36179.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![EE Type 4 No. 367 and its Millerhill to Inverness freight are cautioned by the Hilton Junction distant signal in <br>
anticipation of being stopped to give the 15.10 Glasgow to Dundee train precedence. The semaphore distant to the right was for Bridge of Earn. 3rd March 1971<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/36000/36298.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![EE Type 4 No. 367 at Ladybank on 3 March 1971 with the 13.02 Millerhill to Inverness class 8 freight. The train was conveying extra brake vans for the use of members of the EURS, who joined the train here, having travelled to Ladybank via scheduled passenger services.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/36000/36331.jpg "Ladybank")
![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 coaling stage. The old EP&D works building in the background continued in use for several years as a wagon repair workshop, following official closure of the shed by BR in 1958 [see image 35520].<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/36000/36372.jpg "Ladybank")
![While the up station building at Ladybank has survived into the 21st century, the early BR enamel running in board has long gone, so it's a pity that I contrived to include only part of the latter in this study taken from the down platform in March 1971.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/37000/37172.jpg "Ladybank")
![With the rear of the afternoon Milerhill to Inverness class 8 freight on the River Earn bridge, EE Type 4 No. 367 is invisible as it crawls towards Hilton Junction on 3 March 1971, having received a cautionary aspect at the down distant signal [see image 36298].<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/37000/37325.jpg "Earn Viaduct (Bridge of Earn)")
![The EURS brake van trip from Ladybank to Perth on 3 March 1971 behind EE Type 4 No. D367 passing Lindores Loch on the approach to Newburgh. The distinctive building above the locomotive is Abdie and Dunbog Church. [With thanks to Messrs Leiper, Brown and Gall]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/40000/40124.jpg "Newburgh")
![Freights about to cross at Thornton Junction in 1971. BRCW Type 2 5322 runs under the footbridge of the closed station northbound, while an EE Type 1 has just joined the up main line at Thornton North Junction with a freight off the Fife Coast route. Mineworkings in the background are the remains of Balgonie Colliery (Julian Pit) which closed in 1960.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/03/1971]](/images/5000/5716.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![The remains of Thornton Junction station (closed October 1969) looking south from the footbridge in March 1971. A freight is approaching from the Thornton West direction behind BRCW Type 2 no 5322.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/03/1971]](/images/5000/5717.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Unloading in progress at Burntisland docks in 1971.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/03/1971]](/images/6000/6091.jpg "Burntisland")
![60009 stops for a drink at Leuchars in 1973.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1973]](/images/13000/13674.jpg "Leuchars")
![The former wagon shops at Ladybank photographed from a Dundee-bound train in 1973, with the Newburgh / Perth line passing to the left. D3540 is standing by awaiting her next duty shunting the extensive engineers sidings.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1973]](/images/32000/32886.jpg "Ladybank")
![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 canopy reads GRANTON - BURNTISLAND FERRY - BOOKING OFFICE - PAY HERE<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1973]](/images/35000/35706.jpg "Burntisland")
![The Angus Railway Group's 'Five Counties' railtour of 20 April 1974 enters Ladybank from the Newburgh line, a year before the route reopened to passenger traffic.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/04/1974]](/images/60000/60834.jpg "Ladybank")
![06008 at Markinch in 1975, looking north.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1975]](/images/13000/13964.jpg "Markinch")
![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.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1975]](/images/35000/35591.jpg "Markinch")
![Alongside Kirkcaldy signalbox in 1976. A class 101 dmu has the road, while 06008 is stabled in the yard.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1976]](/images/52000/52308.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Barclay 06008 parked in Kirkcaldy Yard in 1976.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1976]](/images/58000/58302.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![A 1978 view of the up platform building at Newburgh. A curiosity was the survival of hand-written steam loco numbers on the woodwork under the canopy. The building was demolished in 2016. So there won't be a Laurencekirk-style re-opening ...<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1978]](/images/57000/57275.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Newburgh in 1978. A curiosity was the survival of hand-written steam loco numbers on the woodwork under the canopy. Demolished in 2016. So there won't be a Laurencekirk-style re-opening ...<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1978]](/images/57000/57339.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![A long way from home... SR design brake van DS55990 at Ladybank in April 1978. The former wagon repair shop stands in the background [see image 16665].<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton /04/1978]](/images/35000/35520.jpg "Ladybank")
![An elderly 5-compartment grounded coach in use as a store at Newburgh, Fife, in April 1978. Closed to passengers in September 1955, the yard was still in use at this time for coal traffic.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton /04/1978]](/images/36000/36008.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![The goods yard at Newburgh in April 1978, at which time it was still active for coal traffic.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /04/1978]](/images/36000/36019.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![The 6th of April 1978 was the first occasion of an HST covering the Perth - Ladybank route. The view looks west over the site of the closed station where a loop still remained.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 06/04/1978]](/images/57000/57209.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![40060 takes the Perth route at Ladybank (North) Junction on 7th July 1978. The layout here was altered during October 1980 when the signalbox was abolished and colour light signalling installed.<br>
<br>
When the junction was remodelled in 1980 one of the principal aims was to raise the speed limits for traffic entering and exiting the Perth route. The original crossover was on canted track which caused a severe restriction to southbound traffic. I cannot recall the previous speed limit but Up trains are now permitted to travel at 50mph. Previously Perth bound trains were all routed via the Down Branch loop and again speed was severely limited. Today Perth bound traffic is permitted through Ladybank at 70mph.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 07/07/1978]](/images/57000/57833.jpg "Ladybank")
![40141 heads a special Down freight on the 13th of July 1978. Freight facilities at Newburgh were withdrawn in October 1979, with the signal box, loop and sidings being abolished during October 1980. But the station building was to remain standing for another 36 years.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 13/07/1978]](/images/57000/57219.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![January 2016 marked the 50th anniversary of a major rock fall at Clatchard Craig Newburgh which blocked the Ladybank - Bridge of Earn route as a through line until re-opening on 16th January 1967. During this time Newburgh goods depot was served by a daily shunt from Perth and a run round loop was provided at Clatchard to enable ballast trains access. <br>
<br>
25008 passes the site of the rockfall on 29th July 1978 with a Perth - Edinburgh service.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 29/07/1978]](/images/57000/57272.jpg "Clatchard Craig")
![A snowscene photo depicting 40164 at Newburgh heading an Edinburgh - Inverness service on 2nd January 1979.<br>
<br><br>[Graeme Blair 02/01/1979]](/images/57000/57301.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Located between Markinch and Ladybank, Lochmuir had a Down loop and signal box until July 1980. 40030 eases a Northbound working out of the loop on 6th February 1979.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 06/02/1979]](/images/57000/57841.jpg "Lochmuir Summit")
![Viewed from Clatchard Craig an Edinburgh - Aviemore charter HST passes Newburgh. 28th April 1979.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 28/04/1979]](/images/60000/60768.jpg "Clatchard Craig")
![Looking south east from the loading bank towards the signal box at Markinch around 1980.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1980]](/images/27000/27996.jpg "Markinch")
![This shot taken from near Clatchard showing 27042 approaching Newburgh on 22nd March 1980 with an Edinburgh - Perth working.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 22/03/1980]](/images/57000/57284.jpg "Clatchard Craig")
![Looking north at Kirkcaldy. An 08 is in the yard along with grain hoppers for the Harbour branch. The siding on the right leads to the goods shed and a ground frame awaits installation when the 'box is abolished. Sidings on both sides of the main line have been replaced by car parks.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1981]](/images/60000/60022.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![27205 powers past Burntisland on an Edinburgh - Perth service on 17th July 1981.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 17/07/1981]](/images/58000/58943.jpg "Burntisland")
![Discussion group under heavy skies at Markinch in November 1981, alongside preserved A4 Pacific 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I>. The locomotive's home at that time was the shed in the background.<br><br>[Peter Todd 13/11/1981]](/images/22000/22374.jpg "Markinch")
![27036 runs through Ladybank with a southbound train off the Perth line on 13 November 1981. <br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 13/11/1981]](/images/22000/22412.jpg "Ladybank")
![The steeply graded Harbour Branch at Kirkcaldy on 7 April 1983. [See image 28131] <br><br>[Peter Todd 07/04/1983]](/images/37000/37336.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![A steam hauled railtour stands at Markinch in October 1983 just about to leave for the south.<br><br>[David Panton /10/1983]](/images/18000/18655.jpg "Markinch")
![The fine notice board giving instructions for working the Kirkcaldy Harbour branch, photographed at harbour branch junction in 1984, just after closure. It reads: <i>B R --- Working of Kirkcaldy Harbour Branch --- Notice to staff --- Before being uncoupled from the engine, or from each other, wagons must be at a dead stand and properly 'secured'. No wagons are to be uncoupled except when the catch-point and choke-block are closed. --- Fly shunting is strictly prohibited --- 7.2.08 --- By Order.</i><br><br>[Bill Roberton //1984]](/images/28000/28131.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour Branch Junction")
![Scene on the Kirkcaldy harbour branch in late 1984, shortly after closure. Looking back over the Port Brae bridge with the line veering to the left past a rail-served transfer shed.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1984]](/images/44000/44449.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![View from the breakwater at Kirkcaldy Harbour in 1984 with the recently closed branch entering from the left. Some rails had been removed at this time.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1984]](/images/44000/44472.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![Burntisland (Old) Station in 1984. In the left background is the derelict former Burntisland Control, later demolished.<br>
<br>
The East of Scotland 4mm Group's model of Burntisland is being exhibited at Model Rail Scotland at the SECC this weekend.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1984]](/images/58000/58220.jpg "Burntisland [1st]")
![This section of the Down line at Burntisland (photographed in June 1984) was bidrectional to allow access to the former alumina plant, hence the signal on the <I>wrong</I> side: a fixed distant. At the other side of the station the full MAS signal, controlling access to the main line from the long-disused docks sidings, was removed only in July 2008, after about 20 years continuously showing danger. The crossover to the facing Down line is also long severed, so why the signal was maintained all that time is something of a mystery.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1984]](/images/20000/20148.jpg "Burntisland")
![A northbound class 47-hauled train passes the points for Clatchard Craig quarry siding in 1985.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1985]](/images/62000/62672.jpg "Clatchard Craig Quarry")
![The vacant Kirkcaldy Goods Yard seen from Bennochy Road bridge in February 1985. The yard had been officially closed the previous year along with the Harbour Branch.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /02/1985]](/images/51000/51420.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![A class 26-hauled train of new track panels being passed in Thornton Junction down loop in May 1985.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /05/1985]](/images/45000/45882.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![A class 20-hauled freight held in Clatchard Craig loop, to the east of Newburgh, Fife, in May 1985.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /05/1985]](/images/45000/45894.jpg "Clatchard Craig")
![The former Co-op siding at Markinch, seen from a passing Inverness-bound train in May 1985. [See image 35591]<br><br>[Bill Roberton /05/1985]](/images/45000/45912.jpg "Markinch")
![It is a very wet saturday, as this 101 leaves The Woodriffe houses of Newburgh behind. It heads for Perth. <br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/1985]](/images/10000/10729.jpg "Newburgh")
![NB 673 <I>Maude</I> on a special at Ladybank in 1986.<br><br>[David Panton //1986]](/images/18000/18334.jpg "Ladybank")
![Looking west over Cupar with the passenger station on the left, goodsyard centre and signalbox on the right. 26 July 1986.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 26/07/1986]](/images/52000/52854.jpg "Cupar")
![08 515 (I think) with a trip working of china clay from Thornton is seen entering the Tullis Russell plant at Markinch in August 1986. From here the line curved left to a head shunt where the the unloading point was. (taken during a working visit)<br>
<br><br>[Douglas McPherson /08/1986]](/images/60000/60187.jpg "Markinch")
![Photographed from the former loading bank on 13.9.86, 37260 is seen heading a Perth - Edinburgh ecs working.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 13/09/1986]](/images/57000/57649.jpg "Glenburnie Junction")
![Looking east to the end of the line at Burntisland Docks. The rails used to connect with the main line for coal traffic but were cut back in the 1970s.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/57000/57331.jpg "Burntisland")
![A train of bogie bolsters with pipes on board in the sidings at Burntisland Docks in 1987. Possibly the last rail traffic there.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/57000/57418.jpg "Burntisland")
![Burntisland frontage.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/3000/3390.jpg "Burntisland")
![Burntisland looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/3000/3391.jpg "Burntisland")
![Burntisland Dock viewed from the station. View looks south towards Granton.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/3000/3393.jpg "Burntisland")
![Approach to Burntisland Dock (Lammerlaws Yard) viewed from the west - the east end of the station platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/3000/3394.jpg "Burntisland")
![Thornton Junction looking south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/3000/3400.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![The fire-damaged up platform building at Kirkcaldy in 1988. It was later demolished and replaced. This building had replaced an older one not in the typical David Bell configuration for this line.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1988]](/images/57000/57046.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![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 seemed to have lasted long.<br>
<br>
This 1988 shot shows a diverted southbound HST, with Clatchard Craig quarry in the background, heading towards the former Glenburnie Junction.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1988]](/images/57000/57550.jpg "Glenburnie Junction")
![A diverted southbound HST heading towards the former Glenburnie Junction.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1988]](/images/57000/57729.jpg "Glenburnie")
![Looking north over the connection to Seafield Colliery sidings in November 1988. The pit had closed in March of that year. In the background is Seafield Colliery Frame, relegated from a signalbox in 1979 as part of the Edinburgh Resignalling.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /11/1988]](/images/52000/52808.jpg "Seafield Shunting Frame")
![View north of the former workshops in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/57000/57007.jpg "Ladybank")
![Last rites in Kirkcaldy Goods Yard in 1990 as rails are turned out of chairs prior to removal.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1990]](/images/53000/53150.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![107 029 passes the cramped site of Newburgh (First) with an Edinburgh - Perth service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1990]](/images/58000/58188.jpg "Newburgh [1st]")
![107 027 climbs past the former station at Newburgh with a Perth - Edinburgh service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1990]](/images/58000/58197.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![The goods yard and shed alongside Cupar station, photographed on 20 February 1990, before being swept away to make way for a car park.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/02/1990]](/images/39000/39328.jpg "Cupar")
![08761 stands in Markinch Yard with the Thornton - Auchmuty (Tullis Russel) trip in June 1990. The locomotive had failed with a generator fire. In the background a class 150 boards at the southbound platform. The former goods shed in the left background was, for some time, the home of preserved A4 Pacific no 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> [see image 22374].<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/06/1990]](/images/39000/39379.jpg "Markinch")
![107738 passing the site of Glenburnie Junction on 24th July 1990. My late uncle was a signalman here and worked the final shift in April 1960. The trackbed of the former route to St Fort is to the left.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 24/07/1990]](/images/57000/57203.jpg "Glenburnie Junction")
![47817 approaches Abdie with a diverted overnight London - Inverness service. Originally constructed with double track throughout most of the Ladybank - Hilton Jctn route was singled in 1933. The exceptions being Newburgh - Glenburnie Jctn and Bridge of Earn - Hilton Jctn which were singled in 1960 and 1972 respectively. 29th July 1990.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 29/07/1990]](/images/60000/60802.jpg "Lindores [1st]")
![47541 breasts Lochmuir Summit with a service for Aberdeen on 18th August 1990. For a 1979 comparison [see image 57841].<br><br>[Graeme Blair 18/08/1990]](/images/58000/58894.jpg "Lochmuir Summit")
![37088 is seen passing the location of the original Newburgh station with an Edinburgh - Inverness train on 19th September 1990. Just visible above the 3rd carriage is the roof of a bungalow now occupying the site.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 19/09/1990]](/images/57000/57293.jpg "Newburgh [1st]")
![08761 arrives at Markinch with the Thornton - Auchmuty (Tullis Russell) trip in 1991.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1991]](/images/62000/62830.jpg "Markinch")
![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 next few years. February 1991.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /02/1991]](/images/53000/53146.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![Ladybank Civil Engineers Depot in 1992. In the centre is the NBR crane now relocated to Glenfinnan [see image 55149].<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1992]](/images/55000/55238.jpg "Ladybank")
![Level crossing over Den Road, Kirkcaldy in 1992. This gave access from a siding off the main line into Dunnikier Foundry, later Felt Mill, and currently Thomas Muir, Metal Merchant. Since removed or resurfaced.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1992]](/images/57000/57545.jpg "Thomas Muir Scrapyard")
![150256 passes the former Dunnikier Foundry siding a little to the west of Sinclairtown with an Edinburgh-bound Fife Circle service. The paved track was worked by a tractor latterly.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1992]](/images/57000/57801.jpg "Dunnikier Foundry Siding")
![The goods shed at Cupar in 1992. Those were coal drops to the left. Thankfully all tastefully restored today.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1992]](/images/59000/59601.jpg "Cupar")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> outside its former home alongside Markinch station on 30 August 1993.<br><br>[Ken Browne 30/08/1993]](/images/24000/24902.jpg "Markinch")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> at its then home base at Markinch in August 1993. <br><br>[Ken Browne 30/08/1993]](/images/26000/26419.jpg "Markinch")
![Visit of the Railway Heritage Trust to Burntisland (Old) Station on 30 September 1993 involving a trip along the harbour branch in an inspection saloon propelled by 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I>. The Hon. Sir William McAlpine, Bt, has the best seat. Possibly the last train movement on the line.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 30/09/1993]](/images/37000/37730.jpg "Burntisland")
![Looking south from Smeaton Road, Kirkcaldy in November 1993. The end of a siding off the main line at Sinclairtown, just to the south, it formerly crossed the road to serve Dunnikier Colliery. Nairn's linoleum factory dominates the scene.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /11/1993]](/images/53000/53447.jpg "Sinclairtown [1st]")
![Great Marquess 3442 north of Kinghorn with an SRPS Fife Circle excursion on 14 September 1994.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /09/1994]](/images/57000/57740.jpg "Kinghorn")
![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 an Edinburgh - Inverness service. The former junction was located to the left of the relay box seen behind the train.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 02/09/1994]](/images/57000/57630.jpg "Glenburnie Junction")
![Unlike street lighting, most platform lighting can be serviced at ground level. A hydraulic jack is wheeled up to the gearbox and lifts the hinged post clear then tilts it on its side. Here it is demonstrated at Kirkcaldy in April 1995.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 12/04/1995]](/images/51000/51439.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![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 line with two platforms) and part of the roadway to the right (a bay for the St Andrews Railway). <br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/50000/50306.jpg "Leuchars [1st]")
![<i>West Yorkshire Metropolitan County</i> revs up in preparation for heading north from Cupar in 1996. Overhead the stars (particularly those in Big Dipper part of Ursa Major) twinkle, it was a cold night.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/52000/52702.jpg "Cupar")
![The derelict station building at Newburgh in 1996 looking towards Perth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/52000/52759.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![View south on what was the southbound platform at Tayport station. The Newport platform was off to the right. To the left is the harbour from which Bouch's 'floating railway' crossed to Broughty Ferry. The extensive goods yard to the south has been redeveloped and nothing remains of the passenger station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/57000/57031.jpg "Tayport")
![View to Bridge of Earn from an old loading bank at the former Abernethy station in 1996. The two platform station stretched away from the camera and goods yard was behind and to the right. [Ref query 75]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/57000/57066.jpg "Abernethy")
![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 looks contemporary, was built with the houses. The station was straight ahead and the approach to the train ferry was down the right hand side of the old building. The old building may have been offices associated with the goods train ferry.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/57000/57106.jpg "Tayport")
![A southbound HST speeds through Springfield, Fife.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1996]](/images/57000/57621.jpg "Springfield")
![Looking west to Glenburnie Junction in 1997, with Clatchard Craig quarry in the distance.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/42000/42957.jpg "Glenburnie Junction")
![A 1997 view towards Leuchars from the former loading bank at Dairsie. [Ref query 810] The passenger station was behind the camera.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/57000/57075.jpg "Dairsie")
![Aberdeen bound HST at Kirkcaldy in July 1998 with Virgin XC liveried power cars and carriages in IC colours.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/18000/18268.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![A northbound Virgin Trains HST seen at Leuchars in July 1998, still in BR InterCity livery.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/18000/18467.jpg "Leuchars")
![Looking north over the down platform and part of the former goods yard and sheds at Markinch in July 1998. The original 1847 E&N station building in the background still stands although operational activities are now handled by a modern interchange recently opened on the site of the former yard.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/18000/18687.jpg "Markinch")
![Southbound 158 741 pulls into Springfield station in July 1998 on its way to Edinburgh.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/19000/19934.jpg "Springfield")
![The old ground frame at Markinch station in July 1998. Looking south from the end of the platform with the former yard and junction for the Leslie branch to the right.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/21000/21578.jpg "Markinch")
![Aftermath of a coal train derailment at Burntisland seen looking north in July 1998 with a couple of hopper wagons still awaiting recovery. The cross-over was not reinstated.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /07/1998]](/images/37000/37842.jpg "Burntisland")
![<I>The Gallery</I> at Markinch station in July 1998.<br><br>[David Panton 05/07/1998]](/images/21000/21043.jpg "Markinch")
![The pre-interchange era Markinch station in July 1998 with 158 723 on a service to Waverley.<br><br>[David Panton 11/07/1998]](/images/20000/20819.jpg "Markinch")
![The few passengers of 117 301 (including me) detrained at Kinghorn because of a smoke leak after a grinding journey from Kirkcaldy. September 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /09/1998]](/images/18000/18201.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Part of a regular diagram for 117 313 in 1998, seen calling at Kirkcaldy on the 16.38 Fife circle service.<br><br>[David Panton /09/1998]](/images/18000/18242.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Twilight in September 1998 and 117 301 calls at Kirkcaldy with a returning Outer Circle service, the 1757 from Waverley. This was a pretty certain 117 diagram among all those 150s (of blessed memory). <br><br>[David Panton /09/1998]](/images/28000/28256.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![37409 + 37405 climb past Collessie with an SRPS Linlithgow - Kyle of Lochalsh tour on 19th September 1998.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 19/09/1998]](/images/58000/58724.jpg "Collessie")
![These concrete blocks on each side of the East Coast main line at Gravelpit Wood, 1 Km east of Ladybank, together with a nearby pillbox, are what remains of a WWII defence post that would have enabled a barrier to be placed across the line. The train was Edinburgh-bound.<br><br>[William Neill 04/04/2001]](/images/55000/55405.jpg "Ladybank")
![Concrete blocks on each side of the East Coast main line at Gravelpit Wood, 1 Km east of Ladybank which, together with a nearby pillbox, are what remains of a WWII defence post that would have enabled a barrier to be placed across the line.<br><br>[William Neill 04/04/2001]](/images/55000/55429.jpg "Ladybank")
![Markinch locomotive shed in 2002.<br><br>[Roy Lambeth //2002]](/images/13000/13475.jpg "Markinch")
![When National Express first had the ScotRail franchise after <br>
privatisation its colours were red blue and gold. It was never <br>
adopted as a livery though there was a trial on one ageing unit, 101 692 [see image 18845]. The colours were later changed to purple, dark green and sienna (or was it ochre?) which this time was taken up as a livery. Around 2002, unit 150 262 pulls into the up platform at Markinch after reversing at the north crossover for its return to Edinburgh.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton //2002]](/images/28000/28657.jpg "Markinch")
![At the time of writing (December 2009) the 1847 building at Burntisland is undergoing sympathetic renovation by Historic Scotland as business premises. This was the terminus for trains to the north in the period before the Forth Bridge opened in 1890 when Burntisland became a through station on a different alignment. The traces of the hipped roof above the one-time buffer stops are obvious and I hope will not be 'renovated away'. Estate agents eventually gave up trying to let the former platform building on the right (most recently [but that's relative] a railwaymen's social club) and bricked up the windows, but at least it's still there. Photographed on 31 March 2002. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 31/03/2002]](/images/26000/26774.jpg "Burntisland")
![The since-lifted remains of Lammerlaws Yard, to the east of Burntisland docks, looking east on 31 March 2002 with the rocky promontory of Lammerlaws itself in the background. At this stage these tracks were still physically connected to the mainline as were all remaining tracks in the docks area. Then a mobile phone station was built on the access from the main line. The junction itself was finally severed in 2009 after many years of disuse, though a signal controlling access to the main line remained in place and lit until 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 31/03/2002]](/images/26000/26843.jpg "Burntisland")
![Burntisland East Dock, looking west on 31 March 2002. Later that year<br>
the familiar Bulkhandling 5 no longer had a reason to visit the dock as the Burntisland alumina plant closed. Shortly after that the (clearly) redundant lines in the foreground were largely tarred over when the area became a temporary road. Next those anthropomorphic cranes were cut up in the summer of 2009 after several years as a de facto pigeon loft. Later in 2009 the junction from the main line to the docks was finally severed after years of disuse, bringing to an end the sound of clattering trains to Burntisland Links. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 31/05/2002]](/images/26000/26785.jpg "Burntisland")
![158 716 speeds north over Bow of Fife level crossing in July 2002.<br><br>[David Panton /07/2002]](/images/21000/21993.jpg "Bow of Fife")
![170 409 comes off the Perth branch at Ladybank in July 2002. The track layout here means that all trains off this route arrive <I>wrong</I> platform.<br><br>[David Panton /07/2002]](/images/22000/22473.jpg "Ladybank")
![The once grand 1847 Burntisland terminus of the former Edinburgh & Northern Railway that once formed a key part of the rail and ferry route between Edinburgh and Dundee. Ferries from here linked with the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway at Granton, which in turn provided a rail connection to the centre of Edinburgh at Canal Street (now Waverley) while at the northern end of the route the Tayport - Broughty Ferry crossing provided a connection with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. The station became redundant on the opening of the Forth Bridge when a new through station was built just to the west on a new alignment. Photographed in July 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/07/2002]](/images/3000/3328.jpg "Burntisland")
![The sparsely populated Burntisland Docks in July 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/07/2002]](/images/3000/3712.jpg "Burntisland")
![Cupar looking north in 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/08/2002]](/images/1000/1947.jpg "Cupar")
![Cupar looking south in 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/08/2002]](/images/3000/3337.jpg "Cupar")
![Markinch shed (site of) just after the fire which destroyed it. Just as well it was no longer occupied. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/05/2003]](/images/15000/15318.jpg "Markinch")
![Edinburgh bound <i>Sprinter</i> coasts along the front at Burntisland in 2003 passing Burntisland East Junction in 2003.<br><br>[James Young 12/10/2003]](/images/24000/24527.jpg "Burntisland East Junction")
![Leuchars - May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2005]](/images/5000/5615.jpg "Leuchars")
![A GNER HST crossing the A911 road on Markinch Viaduct in May 2005 - photographed looking east.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2005]](/images/3000/3943.jpg "Markinch Viaduct")
![Markinch station looking north in May 2005 showing the remains of the yard and parcels shed. The goods shed used to store 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> stood in front of this until demolished following fire damage. [See image 24902]<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2005]](/images/3000/3982.jpg "Markinch")
![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 towards the Fife coast.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2005]](/images/53000/53095.jpg "Markinch Viaduct")
![View south at Ladybank in May 2005 as an Edinburgh - Dundee train enters the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/2005]](/images/3000/3954.jpg "Ladybank")
![A train from Edinburgh about to leave Ladybank for Dundee on 4 May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/2005]](/images/3000/3955.jpg "Ladybank")
![Exterior view of Ladybank station, seen from the west in May 2005. Ladybank is claimed to be the oldest 'unaltered' station in Scotland (that presumably excludes the blue and white porch!)<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/2005]](/images/3000/3956.jpg "Ladybank")
![Road entrance to Kirkcaldy Station and customer car park on a quiet afternoon in the spring of 2005. Note the integral Red Star parcels logo [see image 31792]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 18/05/2005]](/images/3000/3994.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![A northbound train calls at Kirkcaldy in May 2005. There is a distinctly spacious feel about this station... at least during the quieter periods!<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/05/2005]](/images/3000/3995.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Contrasting ScotRail liveries - Kirkcaldy Station - May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/05/2005]](/images/3000/3996.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Interesting down platform architecture - Kirkcaldy - May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/05/2005]](/images/3000/3997.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The 07.55 Aberdeen - London Kings Cross train approaching Leuchars in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/05/2005]](/images/3000/3960.jpg "Leuchars")
![Formerly Leuchars Junction, the current Leuchars Station is seen looking north on 19 May 2005. The infilled bay was used by trains serving St Andrews and the Fife coast route. The St Andrews branch finally closed in 1969.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/05/2005]](/images/3000/3964.jpg "Leuchars")
![Leuchars Station looking west from the A919 road in May 2005. The cars in the picture are minicabs - a spacious free station customer car park is provided off to the right at the end of the footbridge. <br><br>[John Furnevel 19/05/2005]](/images/3000/3965.jpg "Leuchars")
![A GNER Aberdeen - London train leaving Leuchars in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/05/2005]](/images/3000/3966.jpg "Leuchars")
![<I>The Royal Scotsman</I> passing Abernethy on 19 May bound for Dalwhinnie.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/05/2005]](/images/19000/19091.jpg "Abernethy")
![A morning Edinburgh - Aberdeen DMU about to restart from platform 2 at Leuchars on 19 May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/05/2005]](/images/41000/41797.jpg "Leuchars")
![Leuchars signal box in May 2005, photographed looking north from the station platform. <br><br>[John Furnevel 19/05/2005]](/images/52000/52520.jpg "Leuchars")
![Rear view of Leuchars signal box in May 2005. For the front view at the time [see image 52520].<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/05/2005]](/images/59000/59989.jpg "Leuchars")
![Cupar signal box in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2005]](/images/3000/3930.jpg "Cupar")
![Looking south through Cupar station in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2005]](/images/3000/3931.jpg "Cupar")
![View north over the station and west side car park at Cupar on 22 May 2005. Note the signal box in the left background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2005]](/images/3000/3932.jpg "Cupar")
![Springfield station building, now converted to a private house, May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2005]](/images/3000/3957.jpg "Springfield")
![Smart looking signal box at Cupar in 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2005]](/images/12000/12899.jpg "Cupar")
![The imposing 1847 main station building at Cupar, photographed looking south in May 2005. The original E&NR plan was to install a level crossing here, but, thanks to the efforts of local churchman and politician David Crichton, a bridge was provided. The benefits of the bridge are particularly obvious today, not least in providing an appropriate location for the statue of the said gentleman, which can be seen on the extreme left of the picture. <br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2005]](/images/54000/54781.jpg "Cupar")
![Opened by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway in 1847, Springfield serves a village with a population of less than 1,000. Located between Cupar and Ladybank, the station currently (2017) sees 3 northbound and 2 southbound stopping trains on weekdays, with no service on Sundays. Photograph taken on 22 May 2005 looking south west along the down platform. [Ref query 1676]<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2005]](/images/60000/60471.jpg "Springfield")
![A view over Kinghorn Station - looking north in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2005]](/images/4000/4000.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Train leaving Kinghorn for Edinburgh in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2005]](/images/4000/4031.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Kinghorn Station main building, lineside, 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2005]](/images/4000/4032.jpg "Kinghorn")
![An Edinburgh train at Kinghorn in May 2005. Is there a slight touch of Italian Adriatic Coast about the place?<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2005]](/images/6000/6101.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Road approach to Kinghorn station in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2005]](/images/6000/6102.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Plaque at Burntisland Station 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/05/2005]](/images/4000/4002.jpg "Burntisland")
![A northbound Fife circle train calls at Burntisland in May 2005. The original Edinburgh and Northern station is off picture to the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/05/2005]](/images/4000/4004.jpg "Burntisland")
![The original Edinburgh & Northern Railway station at Burntisland in May 2005. The main line from the Forth Bridge now passes behind the building.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/05/2005]](/images/4000/4005.jpg "Burntisland")
![A southbound train standing under the two remaining operational cranes at Burntisland docks in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/05/2005]](/images/4000/4033.jpg "Burntisland")
![A Fife Circle train rounds the curve on the southern approach to Burntisland station on a sunny May morning in 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/05/2005]](/images/6000/6092.jpg "Burntisland")
![A partially re-liveried ScotRail DMU calls at Burntisland station in May 2005 with a service for Edinburgh.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/05/2005]](/images/6000/6093.jpg "Burntisland")
![Part of the former goods yard at Newburgh in June 2005, where several old railway buildings have been put to good use since closure. The former station building is off picture to the right. The white sign in the left background stands alongside the A913 Abernethy Road and reads 'Wecome to Newburgh - Drive Safely'.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/1000/1624.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![The station forecourt at Newburgh, Fife, in the summer of 2005, looking west. The main station building lies straight ahead, partially hidden amongst the trees, with the Perth - Ladybank line running beyond (part of the surviving platform canopy can just be seen). Ahead and to the right lay the surprisingly large goods yard, with a number of its former buildings now put to commercial use [see image 1624]. The case for reopening the station, which closed to passengers in September 1955, has been taken up recently by a local lobby group. <br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/4000/4509.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Part of the old goods yard at Newburgh - looking west in June 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/4000/4510.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Remains at Newburgh, looking west towards Bridge of Earn in June 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/10000/10037.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Approaching the former goods yard at Newburgh from the west in the summer of 2005. Newburgh station, which closed to passengers in 1955, is beyond the trees on the right. [Ref query 675]<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/58000/58000.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Cupar signal box sits back from north end of the station.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2006]](/images/12000/12062.jpg "Cupar")
![The 1847 shelter at Ladybank on the north (down) platform.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2006]](/images/13000/13062.jpg "Ladybank")
![North end of Ladybank. Perth line straight on and Dundee line curving right.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2006]](/images/14000/14758.jpg "Ladybank")
![Sign outside Markinch station on 10 January 2006 announcing the construction of a new Integrated Public Transport Interchange. [See image 13048]<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/01/2006]](/images/13000/13049.jpg "Markinch")
![East view of the main station building and station house at Ladybank in June 2006.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/06/2006]](/images/15000/15373.jpg "Ladybank")
![1335 Dundee to Edinburgh passing Tailabout bridge NE of Cupar<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/06/2006]](/images/15000/15383.jpg "Cupar")
![Entrance to stairway up to platforms. Closure date 1955.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /07/2006]](/images/11000/11409.jpg "Collessie")
![170 about to leave for Edinburgh. Before there was a hint of the interchange.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /07/2006]](/images/12000/12168.jpg "Markinch")
![The down platform shelter and station house at Ladybank. Also there is no footbridge here just a subway between platforms.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2006]](/images/10000/10818.jpg "Ladybank")
![Ladybank. Well kept up platform building.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/08/2006]](/images/10000/10699.jpg "Ladybank")
![Springfield, now a private house<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/11000/11174.jpg "Springfield")
![Many level crossings are situated on the East Coast Main Line. This one, Bow Of Fife, lies between Ladybank and Springfield.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/11000/11527.jpg "Springfield")
![Station Buildings, on the northbound platform. 2006<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/11000/11674.jpg "Cupar")
![Southerly view of Ladybank.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/12000/12302.jpg "Ladybank")
![North view of Springfield. Note the low platform alongside the station house. Both platforms are covered with chips.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/12000/12497.jpg "Springfield")
![Important crossover at Ladybank south, where southbound trains from Perth & Inverness assume correct direction of travel.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/12000/12867.jpg "Ladybank")
![3 arch bridge over River Earn, approaching Hilton Junction from Bridge of Earn. The Scottish Central Railway runs across the centre of shot.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 03/09/2006]](/images/10000/10698.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![The diverted 12.40 Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen train races through Springfield. Almost too quick for me.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/09/2006]](/images/11000/11061.jpg "Springfield")
![Edinburgh - Dyce express picks up at Cupar, with the castellated overbridge in the background.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/09/2006]](/images/11000/11062.jpg "Cupar")
![Just south of Hilton Junction in October 2006 at the point of merger onto single line working towards Bridge of Earn.<br><br>[Gary Straiton /10/2006]](/images/12000/12471.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Grab shot of Earn viaduct looking from south of Hilton Junction towards Bridge of Earn in October 2006 showing termination of the former up line.<br><br>[Gary Straiton /10/2006]](/images/12000/12483.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Goods shed at Bridge of Earn in October 2006 - site being cleared for redevelopment.<br><br>[Gary Straiton /10/2006]](/images/12000/12488.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Site of Bridge of Earn Junction Oct 2006. Trackbed of the main line via Kinross bears right through the undergrowth while the remaining branch line via Ladybank continues straight ahead. Note change of mileage. <br><br>[Gary Straiton /10/2006]](/images/12000/12496.jpg "Bridge of Earn Junction")
![Two line goods shed at Bridge Of Earn. This was demolished to make way for housing in 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 03/10/2006]](/images/11000/11389.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Turf-cutting ceremony at Markinch on 16 Oct 2006 marking the commencement of work on new interchange facilities - see NEWS ITEM. <br><br>[Fife Council 16/10/2006]](/images/11000/11672.jpg "Markinch")
![Edinburgh bound train arriving at Markinch on 201006. The train in the background has terminated here and is waiting to use the crossover. Behind the barriers work is underway in the old yard on the upgrade of the station and creation of a transport interchange.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/10/2006]](/images/11000/11756.jpg "Markinch")
![Despite having seen better days the old station at Markinch still retains much character. Scene shows the main station buildings with a train at platform 2 on 20 October 2006 with work getting underway off camera on the revised station layout and new interchange building.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/10/2006]](/images/11000/11759.jpg "Markinch")
![View south from Markinch station on 20 October 2006 with a train about to leave for Edinburgh. The redundant groundframe stands at the former junction for the Leslie branch and local goods yard, lifted track from which stands on the right. <br><br>[John Furnevel 20/10/2006]](/images/11000/11773.jpg "Markinch")
![Station approach - Markinch, 20 October 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/10/2006]](/images/11000/11786.jpg "Markinch")
![Edinburgh - Markinch service arriving at its destination on 20 October, shortly after the commencement of work on the creation of new interchange facilities.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/10/2006]](/images/12000/12737.jpg "Markinch")
![Works at Markinch, view from west. An extended platform is lined up behind what looks like a bus station.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/11/2006]](/images/12000/12558.jpg "Markinch")
![Construction work on the creation of interchange facilities underway at Markinch.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/11/2006]](/images/12000/12773.jpg "Markinch")
![2006 floods in Perthshire. Earn Bridge is safe over the expanded River Earn. 1355 14-12-06. Looking west from Horsemill Farm.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2006]](/images/12000/12685.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Kinghorn Station. A 170 calls with an Edinburgh service. Behind the train is a choppy Firth of Forth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2007]](/images/16000/16988.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Entrance to southbound platform at Cupar. This is as it was built in 1847, with the steps and risers renewed. 160 years of inconveniance for the disabled.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2007]](/images/17000/17246.jpg "Cupar")
![Looking into the remains of the former Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee works just north of Ladybank station in 2007. <br><br>[Bill Roberton //2007]](/images/18000/18508.jpg "Ladybank")
![<I> 'Ready in May eh...that'll be right...' </I> Two local experts review progress at Markinch on 10 January 2007. [See image 15950]<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/01/2007]](/images/13000/13048.jpg "Markinch")
![View west over Markinch station on 10 January showing construction work on main building and new west side entrance.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/01/2007]](/images/13000/13084.jpg "Markinch")
![Newburgh looking eastward towards Ladybank. Firth of Tay on left, and Tay Bridge, in distance. Possible location of first station 1848-1906. [Railscot Note: location is around a third of a mile west of the original station which was at Hill Road. The second station is behind the camera.]<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/01/2007]](/images/13000/13303.jpg "Newburgh [1st]")
![View west over the former Newburgh station in January 2007. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/01/2007]](/images/13000/13304.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Collessie. Serene and rural overbridge. Old station to the right.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/01/2007]](/images/13000/13428.jpg "Collessie")
![Easterly view of Earn Bridge with the flood plain almost full, again.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 9/01/2007]](/images/13000/13030.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Progress on the new interchange at Markinch on 6 February 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel /02/2007]](/images/3000/3054.jpg "Markinch")
![Oudenarde occupation crossing, 0.5 ml. east of Bridge of Earn. This will be replaced shortly with a bridge.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /02/2007]](/images/13000/13836.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Stairs up to a platform at rail height east of Bridge of Earn For future access by contractors.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /02/2007]](/images/13000/13837.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Partly used overbridge east of Bridge of Earn. Main line to far (south) side. This was underpass for first Bridge of Earn station 1847-1890.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /02/2007]](/images/13000/13838.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Edinburgh - Markinch service crosses the viaduct just south of its destination in February 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel /02/2007]](/images/15000/15227.jpg "Markinch Viaduct")
![A Dundee - Edinburgh train calls at Markinch on 6 February 2007, with work on the new interchange in full swing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/02/2007]](/images/13000/13520.jpg "Markinch")
![A southbound service crossing Markinch Viaduct in February 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/02/2007]](/images/13000/13644.jpg "Markinch Viaduct")
![Construction site, view from College door.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/02/2007]](/images/13000/13730.jpg "Markinch")
![Signs seen on southbound platform, past the scaffolding.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/02/2007]](/images/13000/13731.jpg "Markinch")
![Station house presides over work during a Sunday...none.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/02/2007]](/images/13000/13786.jpg "Markinch")
![Silverlink 158782 on hire to First ScotRail calls at Burntisland on 21 Feb with the 14.12 Edinburgh - Markinch.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/02/2007]](/images/13000/13781.jpg "Burntisland")
![The housing covers a large goods yard. Centre of pier was where tramp steamers tied up. There was a wagon <i>tip-up</i> which when the door was opened the coal would drop into the hold. Timber was unloaded from Scandinavia on the north pier (left out of shot).<br><br>[Brian Forbes /03/2007]](/images/14000/14391.jpg "Tayport")
![An Edinburgh - Markinch service slows over the viaduct on the approach to its destination on 13 March 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/03/2007]](/images/14000/14006.jpg "Markinch Viaduct")
![Aberdeen train standing under the newly installed footbridge at Markinch on 13 March 2007 as work continues in the background on the new interchange. <br><br>[John Furnevel 13/03/2007]](/images/14000/14007.jpg "Markinch")
![Soon to be forsaken for something younger. The stately old station building at Markinch on 13 March 2007. [See image 15950] <br><br>[John Furnevel 13/03/2007]](/images/14000/14028.jpg "Markinch")
![An Edinburgh bound train crossing the bridge over Burntisland High Street on 15 March 2007, shortly after leaving Burntisland station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/03/2007]](/images/14000/14023.jpg "Burntisland")
![The Edinburgh and Northern 1847 terminus at Burntisland which linked with the train ferry to Granton. All doors and windows are now boarded up, March 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/03/2007]](/images/14000/14026.jpg "Burntisland")
![Heading north around Pettycur Bay to Kinghorn.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/03/2007]](/images/14000/14041.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A southbound service leaving Burntisland in March 2007. In the background is Burntisland Harbour, part of which was used by the E&N train ferries that ran between Burntisland and Granton prior to the opening of The Forth Bridge in 1890. [See image 4002]<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/03/2007]](/images/15000/15719.jpg "Burntisland")
![Northbound through Leuchars. The box was switched out.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/03/2007]](/images/14000/14064.jpg "Leuchars")
![View East past Rhynd Wood toward Leuchars.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14190.jpg "Morton Siding")
![View West to Tayport from the Rhynd Farm Crossing. Line closed 1955.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14192.jpg "Morton Siding")
![Leuchars Junction. Apart from the main lines (silvertops) the others are supernumerary at Leuchars North.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14195.jpg "Leuchars")
![Half view of southbound platform at Leuchars.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14196.jpg "Leuchars")
![Tay rail ferries for Broughty Ferry left from this Tayport slipway between 1850 and 1878 then, after the first Tay Bridge fell, from 1879 until 1887 when the present bridge was built.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14217.jpg "Tayport")
![Diamond discarded. Station building and new footbridge with disabled access ramp. The former branch to Tayport is disconnected.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14233.jpg "Leuchars")
![Tractor driver operating the lever controlling the barriers at Hospital Mill level crossing near Springfield.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/03/2007]](/images/18000/18486.jpg "Springfield")
![New interchange facility looking good on 30 March although a bit to go yet.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/03/2007]](/images/14000/14266.jpg "Markinch")
![Workers discuss the weekend ahead. Here is the SWT 158786 again. Markinch station inprovements on 30 March.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/03/2007]](/images/14000/14267.jpg "Markinch")
![Express for Edinburgh rounds the curve at Muirhead north of Markinch.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/03/2007]](/images/14000/14271.jpg "Muirhead")
![Round the bend toward Markinch an express for Edinburgh.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/14000/14342.jpg "Markinch")
![Rear of Newburgh station, standard NBR constuction. It was new in 1906 and closed 1955.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/14000/14487.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![<i>Cricket anyone?</i> Helmet, box and gloves beside wicket, rubbish swept aside as we beat the WI just. Crane plinth - Newburgh 21 4 07.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/14000/14679.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![A Sunday Dundee - Edinburgh train formed by 170 460 calls at Ladybank on 1 April 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 01/04/2007]](/images/21000/21511.jpg "Ladybank")
![Newburgh goods yard has been cleared and a ballast covering laid. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/04/2007]](/images/14000/14440.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Looking west along the front of the old Newburgh station building. New track works coming up shortly.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/04/2007]](/images/14000/14441.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Looking east up the former Newburgh station loop past the canopy of the old station.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/04/2007]](/images/14000/14448.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Engineers possession 14/15 April at Bridge of Earn looking NW. The signal is Hilton Junction distant.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/04/2007]](/images/14000/14616.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Diversion via Stirling weekend 14 - 15 April meant the line through Bridge of Earn was being occupied by Permanent Way staff to replace worn sleepers between Perth Road and the M90.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/04/2007]](/images/14000/14570.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Rolling along. Edinburgh train heads for Bridge of Earn across the Earn Viaduct with a tractor rolling a field.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/04/2007]](/images/14000/14589.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Inverness 170 passing Lindores Loch near Newburgh approaching Glenburnie Jn. No sun today.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/04/2007]](/images/14000/14672.jpg "Newburgh")
![Ballast headed by 66180 inches its way west at Easter Clunie, between Newburgh & Abernethy. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/04/2007]](/images/14000/14676.jpg "Newburgh")
![New track at Newburgh station. This relaying up to 75 m.p.h. standard decreases the running time between Ladybank and Hilton Junction, Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/04/2007]](/images/14000/14677.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![Long ballast train east end of Newburgh.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/04/2007]](/images/14000/14718.jpg "Newburgh")
![Fife Animal Park and Bistro, Collessie. The peak is East Lomond. A turbostar heads for Ladybank.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/04/2007]](/images/14000/14756.jpg "Collessie")
![Wide view of alterations and new building, 26 Mar 07.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/04/2007]](/images/14000/14773.jpg "Markinch")
![170 401 with a Sunday diversion leaves Newburgh and heads east.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2007]](/images/14000/14928.jpg "Newburgh")
![The diverted 1305 Perth - Glasgow approaching Newburgh in May 2007 past the site of the former Glenburnie Junction. Clatchard Craig quarry forms the backdrop.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2007]](/images/15000/15135.jpg "Newburgh")
![Annsmuir level crossing. Maintainance worker in fine form.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/05/2007]](/images/14000/14811.jpg "Ladybank")
![Abandoned building that was once part of the former Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee works, situated Northwest of Ladybank station alongside the Perth line. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/05/2007]](/images/14000/14812.jpg "Ladybank")
![Diverted 1913 Perth to Glasgow passes Carey Farm west of Abernethy. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/05/2007]](/images/14000/14877.jpg "Abernethy")
![SPTE turbostar racing through Abernethy.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/05/2007]](/images/14000/14888.jpg "Abernethy")
![170401 the first turbostar heads east through Grange of Lindores. 1305 Perth to Glasgow diverted via Ladybank.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/05/2007]](/images/14000/14882.jpg "Newburgh")
![170425 crosses over to the up line at Ladybank and heads for Edinburgh.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/05/2007]](/images/14000/14954.jpg "Ladybank")
![Edinburgh 170 approaches Ladybank, off the Perth line.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/05/2007]](/images/14000/14955.jpg "Ladybank")
![Arboreal Paradise. 170 437 on a local Dundee to Edinburgh approaching the houses of Kingskettle.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/05/2007]](/images/14000/14956.jpg "Kingskettle")
![Just in time for the forecast rain. New waiting shelter at Ladybank station. CCTV will be installed soon.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/05/2007]](/images/14000/14957.jpg "Ladybank")
![The Paps o Fife (Lomond Hills)are seen behind this northbound 170 approaching Ladybank.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/05/2007]](/images/14000/14979.jpg "Ladybank")
![Inverness to Edinburgh express (170 + 158) between Kingskettle and Falkland Road.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/05/2007]](/images/14000/14980.jpg "Freuchie")
![A class 170 rounds the long bend through Kingskettle, heading for Ladybank.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/05/2007]](/images/15000/15013.jpg "Kingskettle")
![Work proceeding on �3m.renewal of C(S)listed Lammerlaws road bridge to Burntisland beach and swimming pool. Temporary footbridge near camera.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/05/2007]](/images/14000/14021.jpg "Burntisland")
![Sea Wall, collie and church at Burntisland.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/05/2007]](/images/14000/14022.jpg "Burntisland")
![GNER 125 curves northbound alongside the recreation area at Burntisland.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/05/2007]](/images/14000/14024.jpg "Burntisland")
![Historical plaque on Burntisland down waiting room wall.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/05/2007]](/images/14000/14025.jpg "Burntisland")
![Pettycur Heights are background to a 170 as it slows for the Burntisland stop.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/05/2007]](/images/14000/14027.jpg "Burntisland")
![Waiting room on the tightly curved northbound platform at Burntisland, masonary built.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/05/2007]](/images/14000/14043.jpg "Burntisland")
![Tight curve on down platform at Burntisland.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/05/2007]](/images/14000/14073.jpg "Burntisland")
![Burntisland original station platform building (left) and present station building on the higher plane. When the Forth Bridge opened in 1890 the new (r) line opened.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/05/2007]](/images/14000/14080.jpg "Burntisland")
![Scene at Kinghorn in May 2007 showing the up waiting room in the early stages of dismantling. Although it appeared in reasonable external condition the structure had been declared unsafe and had been out of use for some time.<br><br>[David Panton 25/05/2007]](/images/20000/20722.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A Waverley bound service, headed by SWT liveried 158 786 calls at Kinghorn on 25 May 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 25/05/2007]](/images/20000/20998.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Extensive additional car parking at Kirkcaldy down side.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/05/2007]](/images/15000/15174.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Northbound station entrance with cycle lockers, brown bins and taxis. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/05/2007]](/images/15000/15175.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![New southbound side station building with elaborate glass architecture.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/05/2007]](/images/15000/15176.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![170.417 passes Bow of Fife LC and heads towards Ladybank.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/05/2007]](/images/15000/15204.jpg "Bow of Fife")
![170422 entering Ladybank from the Cupar line.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/05/2007]](/images/15000/15468.jpg "Ladybank")
![A Commonwealth Games liveried 170 on a Kirkcaldy - Edinburgh service about to head south on 27 May.<br><br>[David Panton 27/05/2007]](/images/15000/15814.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![For historians, this house alongside the up platform at Ladybank, was built 1847 - for what purpose?<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/05/2007]](/images/15000/15181.jpg "Ladybank")
![170 422 calls at Ladybank en route to Edinburgh, still in attractive Scotrail livery.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/05/2007]](/images/15000/15186.jpg "Ladybank")
![170 403 in Scotrail colours heads for Cupar, about to pass Bow Of Fife L.C. The peaks are East(L) & West(R) Lomond Hills.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/05/2007]](/images/15000/15187.jpg "Bow of Fife")
![Service leaves Ladybank for the north.<BR/>170434.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/05/2007]](/images/15000/15188.jpg "Ladybank")
![View south from below the canopy of the condemned waiting shelter on the up platform at Kinghorn on 28 May 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 28/05/2007]](/images/21000/21476.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Markinch improvements 01-06-07. North west view with construction of a lift underway on the southbound platform.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/06/2007]](/images/15000/15230.jpg "Markinch")
![New footbridge, part of the ramp system which will connect to the lift being constructed (left).<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/06/2007]](/images/15000/15231.jpg "Markinch")
![A loading bank? Surely not! A view south west at the ongoing changes at Markinch, 01-06-07.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/06/2007]](/images/15000/15251.jpg "Markinch")
![Waiting room ready, at Markinch. Bus circle for interchange is at the rear.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/06/2007]](/images/15000/15252.jpg "Markinch")
![Street side of new building. The packages cover the bus bays.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 03/06/2007]](/images/15000/15260.jpg "Markinch")
![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 the pun)<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/06/2007]](/images/15000/15363.jpg "Leuchars")
![View of Leuchars from the east. The former St Andrews bay platform has been filled in.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/06/2007]](/images/15000/15372.jpg "Leuchars")
![Edinburgh bound 170.150 passes a silo approaching Cupar.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/06/2007]](/images/15000/15376.jpg "Cupar")
![Remains at Kingskettle on 10 June 2007. Stairs to the down platform were inside the curved wall, while outside was the road to the goods yard. I am unaware of what lay behind the door? Kingskettle station lasted for 120 years, with final closure coming in September 1967.<br><br>[David Panton 10/06/2007]](/images/19000/19210.jpg "Kingskettle")
![47854 approaches Bow of Fife crossing bound for Keith. The first leg of the five day Classic Tour, using the Royal Scotsman set.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/06/2007]](/images/15000/15515.jpg "Bow Of Fife")
![Royal Scotsman heads north through Fife on its way to Keith on 18 June behind 47854. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/06/2007]](/images/15000/15521.jpg "Sweetholm Crossing")
![Like a model train, the Royal Scotsman travels north west past Abernethy.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/06/2007]](/images/15000/15626.jpg "Abernethy")
![57601 takes the Royal Scotsman on its journey towards Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/06/2007]](/images/15000/15632.jpg "Abernethy")
![1727 Edinburgh to Inverness passing Freuchie Mill Road near Kingskettle.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /07/2007]](/images/16000/16051.jpg "Kingskettle")
![Extra EMCAR crosses the points to the ECML and the north.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /07/2007]](/images/16000/16070.jpg "Ladybank")
![A circle train arriving at Kinghorn southbound.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/07/2007]](/images/15000/15775.jpg "Kinghorn")
![The 1910 Edinburgh-Aberdeen (left) accelerates away from Kinghorn Tunnel past the arriving 1941 Outer Circle service.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/07/2007]](/images/15000/15778.jpg "Kinghorn")
![NBR 872 <I>Auld Reekie</I> has been re-railed after the fatal accident circa 1916. Photo courtesy A.Todd.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/07/2007]](/images/15000/15770.jpg "Burntisland")
![The Markinch lift is taking shape behind the screen on 10 July 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/07/2007]](/images/15000/15782.jpg "Markinch")
![Northerly view of Kinghorn station with North Sea beyond. The crumbling platform is being reinforced.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/07/2007]](/images/15000/15787.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Street view of Station Building at Kinghorn<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/07/2007]](/images/15000/15822.jpg "Kinghorn")
![North view of Kinghorn station building railside.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/07/2007]](/images/15000/15860.jpg "Kinghorn")
![National emblems about to bloom.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/07/2007]](/images/15000/15840.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![158726 & 170493 forming the 1135 Edinburgh to Perth passing Bridge of Earn. NR have since this picture was taken, erected a high chainlink fence after vandalism.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 12/07/2007]](/images/15000/15792.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Alphaline 158782 with an SPT 170 calls at Kirkcaldy with an Aberdeen-Edinburgh express.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/07/2007]](/images/15000/15869.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![170452 leaving Kirkcaldy for the north on 17 July.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/07/2007]](/images/15000/15870.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![GNER 43306. <i>Fountains Abbey</i> at the rear of the 1639 express from Kirkcaldy leaves quietly and without smoke for Kings Cross. (New MTU engines). Apt name for a monastery?<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/07/2007]](/images/15000/15874.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![A Fife Circle service calls at Kirkcaldy. Quite busy it seems.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/07/2007]](/images/15000/15890.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![A southbound HST arrives at Kirkcaldy on 17 July adorned with a sticker advertising cheap tickets south of the border.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/07/2007]](/images/16000/16031.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Isometric platform building at Kirkcaldy.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/07/2007]](/images/16000/16045.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![A First ScotRail 170 restarts a local for the north from Kirkcaldy. Sunshine makes quite a difference to the colours.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/07/2007]](/images/16000/16142.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![One of the class 67 hauled <I>Open Golf Championship</I> specials put on by First ScotRail operating between Edinburgh and Carnoustie near Falkland Road on 18 July.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/07/2007]](/images/15000/15877.jpg "Falkland Road")
![Late evening returning golf special heads for Edinburgh on 18 July near Falkland Road.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/07/2007]](/images/16000/16139.jpg "Falkland Road")
![Caroustie to Edinburgh 2007 open golf special with 67003 leading passing Ladybank during a prolonged storm.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/07/2007]](/images/15000/15917.jpg "Ladybank")
![Seen at Ladybank is 170420 which, along with 170421, has been endowed with CG 2014 livery.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/07/2007]](/images/15000/15922.jpg "Ladybank")
![1600 Dyce - Edinburgh calls at Ladybank. It has been stenghthened to cater for Open Golf fans and disgorged 34 passengers today.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/07/2007]](/images/15000/15926.jpg "Ladybank")
![1712 all stations from Edinburgh to Carnoustie pulls away from Ladybank on 21/07/07. Heavy rain distortion of image!<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/07/2007]](/images/15000/15960.jpg "Ladybank")
![Getting there. View south east over the Markinch interchange site on 22 July 2007. [See image 17092]<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/07/2007]](/images/15000/15950.jpg "Markinch")
![Old and new station buildings stand side by side at Markinch on 22 July as a southbound service pulls in.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/07/2007]](/images/15000/15985.jpg "Markinch")
![Site of the former Sinclairtown station on 22 July 2007 showing the remains of the booking office base and the line of the old stairway. Note also the blocked up doorway (top right) that once provided access from St Clair Street. View south towards Kirkcaldy town centre. <br><br>[John Furnevel 22/07/2007]](/images/16000/16002.jpg "Sinclairtown [2nd]")
![View north over the harbour in July 2007 showing the former branch coming in behind the mill and running out onto the railway arches. On the left is some of the new housing built within the old harbour area.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/07/2007]](/images/16000/16035.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![Traces of the former railway can still be found within what remains of the harbour although much of the area has now given way to new housing and roads.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/07/2007]](/images/16000/16036.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![Looking north on 22 July 2007 at the surviving former railway bridge in Kirkcaldy harbour.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/07/2007]](/images/16000/16038.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![The surviving bridge abutments, embankment and arches are all part of the branch that once served Kirkcaldy Harbour (off picture to the left). View south along the A921 towards the Town Centre on 22 July 2007, with the former Nairns Linoleum factory in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/07/2007]](/images/16000/16039.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![Looking east across Windmill Road, Kirkcaldy on 22 July 2007 at the now sealed former entrance to Dysart station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/07/2007]](/images/16000/16296.jpg "Dysart")
![Remains of the overbridge that once brought the branch into Kirkcaldy Harbour, now carrying pipelines serving the remaining industrial establishments in the area. View northeast towards Dysart on 22 July 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/07/2007]](/images/17000/17545.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![New interchange building, with bus stop and turning circle at Markinch. The old station buildings stand in the backgroud.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2007]](/images/16000/16619.jpg "Markinch")
![A 5-car Sunday Edinburgh - Dundee service pulls out of Cupar led by a 170 on 5 August.<br><br>[David Panton 05/08/2007]](/images/16000/16202.jpg "Cupar")
![<I>Gill Sans</I> lettering, as used by British Railways from 1948 to 1964, seen tucked away one level above the platform at Markinch on 22 August 2007. The last remaining example in Scotland perhaps?<br><br>[David Panton 22/08/2007]](/images/18000/18615.jpg "Markinch")
![New lift with stairs complete on south platform. 26.08.07<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/08/2007]](/images/16000/16327.jpg "Markinch")
![Lift tower, stairs and footbridge looking south. 26.08<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/08/2007]](/images/16000/16329.jpg "Markinch")
![View north, the station house stands across the line from the new elevator. Markinch 26.08.07<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/08/2007]](/images/16000/16332.jpg "Markinch")
![Station house and booking hall looking west. Will they survive?<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/08/2007]](/images/16000/16333.jpg "Markinch")
![Ten bus routes are now visiting the newly open interchange at Markinch. 26.08.07<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/08/2007]](/images/16000/16338.jpg "Markinch")
![Markinch now. New road to college and mill to the left at new roundabout.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/08/2007]](/images/16000/16413.jpg "Markinch")
![1448 Perth to Edinburgh passed under the Perth Road, Bridge of Earn.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16381.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![1335 Edinburgh to Perth passing the old goods shed at Bridge of Earn with Moncrieff Hill the background.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/08/2007]](/images/16000/16416.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Edinburgh & Northern Railway lamp standard in a garden in Cupar. August 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 5/08/2007]](/images/16000/16176.jpg "Cupar")
![Pure Country. Edinburgh train about to pass under the <I>Skew Brig</I>, east of Abernethy.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/16000/16545.jpg "Abernethy")
![<I>Sheep May Safely Graze</I>, the popular pastoral music, is suggested here, as a 170 for Edinburgh passes Balgonie Farm.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/16000/16654.jpg "Abernethy")
![170423 in Scotrail colours passing the site of the first Newburgh station.(1848-1909)<br><br>[Brian Forbes 03/09/2007]](/images/16000/16451.jpg "Newburgh")
![Up GNER HST at Leuchars on 19 September 2007 with an Aberdeen - Kings Cross service.<br><br>[David Panton 19/09/2007]](/images/21000/21575.jpg "Leuchars")
![Rail passengers arrive at the recently opened Markinch Interchange on 20 September 2007 off a bus from Glenrothes. The old station building and booking office stands in the left background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 20/09/2007]](/images/16000/16667.jpg "Markinch")
![Part of the former EP&D works buiding at Ladybank looking south towards the station from the level crossing on the Perth line on 20 September 2007. A running shed stood further south towards the junction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/09/2007]](/images/16000/16668.jpg "Ladybank")
![An Aberdeen - Edinburgh train runs through Ladybank on 20 September while a freight is held at signals waiting to come off the Perth line in the left backgound.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/09/2007]](/images/16000/16670.jpg "Ladybank")
![A return Georgemas Junction - Hartlepool freight consisting of empty pipe flats comes off the Perth line at Ladybank on 20 September 2007 and runs south through the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/09/2007]](/images/17000/17304.jpg "Ladybank")
![View east down the drive of a house in Golf Street, Ladybank from the road on 20 Sept 2007. On the other side of the line stands part of the works built by the EP&D circa 1848 (a running shed stood to the south nearer the junction). Lattery this building was used as a wagon repair shop, then an S & T store. [See image 16665]<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/09/2007]](/images/18000/18404.jpg "Ladybank")
![1Z40 The SRPS Autumn Circular railtour from Linlithgow and back via Inverness and Aberdeen reaches Ladybank on the outward leg hauled by 40145 on 22.09.07. This was the only time that I had been aboard a passenger train that did not stop as it passed through Perth station!<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/09/2007]](/images/17000/17311.jpg "Ladybank")
![Cupar station looking south east with a blocked off arch. Was there a dock platform here at any time?<br><br>[Brian Forbes ../10/2007]](/images/16000/16846.jpg "Cupar")
![The stairs accessing Cupar southbound platform that will have to be superceded as a result of current disability legislation. They are indeed rather steep. A footbridge and lift similar to those at Markinch has been suggested. Work is to be completed within the coming year. View north in October 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/10/2007]](/images/16000/16815.jpg "Cupar")
![Stairs from the South Bridge to the up platform at Cupar show the original station on the down line.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/10/2007]](/images/16000/16816.jpg "Cupar")
![Here it is...just about! The new station building and bus circle at Markinch Interchange on 10 July.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/10/2007]](/images/15000/15785.jpg "Markinch")
![158731 approaches Lammerlaws Bridge in Burntisland on 12 October with the disused connection to the former harbour branch in the foreground. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/10/2007]](/images/16000/16854.jpg "Burntisland")
![The hourly Edinburgh shuttle arrives beside the new platform furniture. The waiting room is to the right and the connecting buses beyond that. Eleven local connections are available.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /11/2007]](/images/17000/17103.jpg "Markinch")
![A 158/170 five car DMU leaves the main line at Ladybank and heads northwest to Collessie and Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /11/2007]](/images/17000/17332.jpg "Ladybank")
![170394 at the rear of a five car set with 158703 leading, leaving Ladybank for Inverness on time at 14.26 on 1 November 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/11/2007]](/images/17000/17067.jpg "Ladybank")
![158731 terminating at Markinch at 1405 on 1 November. This train will draw forward under the new foorbridge then past the camera and go through the crossover under the roadbridge at my rear then return to Edinburgh from the opposite platform.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/11/2007]](/images/17000/17068.jpg "Markinch")
![Renovated station and interchange up and running. The final job was to remove the old footbridge, which was tickled on to the Leven Road Bridge. Much evidence can be seen.<br>
The marks of the stairs can be seen on the right hand platform.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/11/2007]](/images/17000/17074.jpg "Markinch")
![New disabled and child car parking to the west of station building.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/11/2007]](/images/17000/17075.jpg "Markinch")
![Mixed signals. For a fraction of a second a single yellow and a red were lit simultaniously. This train has terminated at Markinch and is running forward to access the crossover, it will return on the right (up line) track, stop to pick up passengers then head to our capital city, Edinburgh. 158731<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/11/2007]](/images/17000/17078.jpg "Markinch")
![Looking south as a five car First ScotRail service from Edinburgh to Inverness reaches Ladybank with 158703 leading.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/11/2007]](/images/17000/17134.jpg "Ladybank")
![The road into the former goods shed where 60009 was once stored stands empty at Markinch in November 2007, as a late afternoon service for Edinburgh heads south.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/11/2007]](/images/17000/17879.jpg "Markinch")
![View looking north of Markinch interchange the day before the official opening by Stewart Stevenson MSP Transport Minister 6th November 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/11/2007]](/images/17000/17092.jpg "Markinch")
![The 12.25 Aberdeen - Edinburgh service approaching Leuchars on 23 November.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/11/2007]](/images/17000/17273.jpg "Leuchars")
![The <I>Northern Belle</I> passing Kinghorn with Royal Train class 67 no.67006 at the rear on 14 December.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17466.jpg "Kinghorn")
![NXEC liveried HST working 1S12 to Aberdeen passing Markinch on 14 December at speed and in failing Light. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17470.jpg "Markinch")
![Pacing the train. The <I>Northern Belle</I> between Aberdour and Burntisland on 14 December. I took up position at Aberdour on the scheduled time. An inner Fife Circle service arrived, I took a shot of that, then raced to Kinghorn thinking that I would make it because of the time lag due to possible signal hold ups. Luckily my camera was ready and I took this as I passed it.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17472.jpg "Burntisland")
![The Northern Belle accelerates through Kinghorn station with leading loco 67029 blasting exhaust.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17482.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Class 170 waits at the crossover north of Markinch. Arriving at 1509 from Edinburgh as 2K61 it will leave the up platform at 1523 back to Edinburgh as 2K62, neat.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17483.jpg "Markinch")
![The 1523 Markinch to Edinburgh Waverley departure from Markinch on 14 December. This shot shows the removal of the old yard at the south end.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17527.jpg "Markinch")
![The new Markinch footbridge frames this arrival from Edinburgh.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17613.jpg "Markinch")
![67006 <I>Royal Sovereign</I> heads up to Kirkcaldy on the rear of <I>The Northern Belle</I> passing Kinghorn on 14 December.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2007]](/images/17000/17660.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A Dundee - Edinburgh Waverley service about to leave Markinch on 20 September 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/9/2007]](/images/16000/16662.jpg "Markinch")
![<I>'Did the Estate Agent mention anything about a garden shed?'</I> View from a house in Golf Street, Ladybank on 20 Sept. The Perth line lies between the fence and what is actually the remains of the old Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee works building. [With kind permission]. [See image 18404]<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/9/2007]](/images/16000/16665.jpg "Ladybank")
![View south over the new building at Markinch on 20 September.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/9/2007]](/images/16000/16672.jpg "Markinch")
![A freight crosses to the up line at the south end of Ladybank station on 20 September 2007, having just come off the Perth line with a Georgemas Junction - Hartlepool pipes return working.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/9/2007]](/images/16000/16716.jpg "Ladybank")
![40145 stops at Ladybank with 1Z40 Linlithgow to Inverness, SRPS Tour.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/9/2007]](/images/16000/16683.jpg "Ladybank")
![Interior of the swish new Markinch Interchange.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 04/01/2008]](/images/17000/17757.jpg "Markinch")
![Southbound service arrives at the <i>all new</i> Markinch station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 04/01/2008]](/images/17000/17780.jpg "Markinch")
![To the left of the current Burntisland station stands the original Edinburgh and Northern Railway building and train ferry pier. View southwest on 16 January 2008.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/01/2008]](/images/17000/17744.jpg "Burntisland")
![View east over part of Burntisland docks on 16 January 2008, with an Edinburgh bound 170 slowing for the stop at Burntisland station. The flat area in the background was once covered by sidings, usually occupied by trainloads of Fife coal awaiting shipment.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/01/2008]](/images/17000/17745.jpg "Burntisland")
![A twin 158 formation crosses Markinch Viaduct on 12 February 2008. View looks east along the A911 road.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 12/02/2008]](/images/17000/17993.jpg "Markinch Viaduct")
![Diverted NXEC HST 1E12 passing south through the site of Bridge of Earn station on 24 March during engineering works at Larbert.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 24/03/2008]](/images/18000/18437.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![1352 Aberdeen to London 125 south of Springfield.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/03/2008]](/images/18000/18489.jpg "Springfield")
![Late afternoon at Hospital Mill Crossing near Springfield on 27 March 2008. Crossing cottage stands on the left.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/03/2008]](/images/18000/18499.jpg "Springfield")
![The former goods shed at Sinclairtown on 31 March 2008, with rails still in place.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/03/2008]](/images/18000/18696.jpg "Sinclairtown [1st]")
![The former NCL depot at Sinclairtown on 31 March 2008. The rail access end has been bricked up. This was built on part of the goods yard, but in the 19th century was the location of the up passenger platform as shown on the OS map of 1895. By the 1914 edition the station had been moved to the other (north) side of St Clair Street. [See image 20575]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/03/2008]](/images/37000/37976.jpg "Sinclairtown [1st]")
![Kettle at Kettle. A4 60009 coasts down hill at Kingskettle with <I>The North Briton</I> on the first leg of day 2 from Edinburgh to Dundee. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2008]](/images/18000/18632.jpg "Kingskettle")
![60009 coasts downhill with <I>The North Briton</I> near Kingskettle, Fife, on 13 April 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2008]](/images/18000/18950.jpg "Kingskettle")
![Turbostar working the 1647 Perth to Edinburgh crossing the Earn Bridge<br>
Look at the arches and find the flood high water marks.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/04/2008]](/images/18000/18667.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![<I>The Royal Scotsman</I> accelerates north from Dysart on 28 April behind 47804.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/04/2008]](/images/18000/18834.jpg "Dysart")
![SPT liveried 170 478 coasts downhill towards Dysart with an outer circle service destined for Waverley on 28 April 2008. Randolph Road bridge, spanning the line in the background, once carried the Wemyss Tramway from Kirkcaldy to Leven prior to closure in 1932. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/04/2008]](/images/18000/18849.jpg "Dysart")
![A CCT Voyager about to pass through the platforms at Ladybank heading south in May 2008. The brick building to the right of the train is a remote automatic signal cabin.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2008]](/images/19000/19257.jpg "Ladybank")
![The northbound <I>Royal Scotsman</I> approaches Kinghorn Tunnel behind 47 804 on 12 May 2008. Burntisland stands in the background.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/05/2008]](/images/19000/19014.jpg "Kinghorn")
![170 421 at Bridge of Earn on 13 May with the 0810 Edinburgh - Perth. This is one of several towns to the north of Scotlands central belt where reinstatement of rail links has become an issue. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/05/2008]](/images/19000/19022.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![A silver power car on a white stripe HST 125 set heads south at Ladybank on 18 May 2008, passing an EWS class 66 waiting for the road on the Perth line with a ballast train.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/05/2008]](/images/19000/19078.jpg "Ladybank")
![Cross Country class 221 makes the 1337 stop at Ladybank en route to Edinburgh. New vinyl stickers in white and Red cover the original paintwork of Virgin Trains.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/05/2008]](/images/19000/19099.jpg "Ladybank")
![Unrefurbished 43110 at rear of the 1151 Aberdeen to London HST through Ladybank. The train set is upgraded GNER with the white stripe apart from the leading power car which was in silver NXEC colours.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/05/2008]](/images/19000/19136.jpg "Ladybank")
![47804 climbs away from Sinclairtown on 21 May with the northbound <I>Royal Scotsman</I>.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/05/2008]](/images/19000/19138.jpg "Sinclairtown [2nd]")
![National Express East Coast HST service passing St Michaels Golf Club near Leuchars in June 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /06/2008]](/images/19000/19470.jpg "Leuchars")
![Northbound HST, with Leuchars in the background, heads north past St Michaels golf course en route to Aberdeen in June 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/06/2008]](/images/19000/19396.jpg "Leuchars")
![EWS 66111 heads south through the Bow of Fife with train 6D71, empty aviation fuel tanks en route from Linkswood (RAF Leuchars) to Mossend.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/06/2008]](/images/19000/19492.jpg "Bow of Fife")
![Southbound service leaving Cupar on 23 June 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/06/2008]](/images/19000/19566.jpg "Cupar")
![Cupar signal box looks over improvements to the station car park at the north end.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/06/2008]](/images/19000/19574.jpg "Cupar")
![Main entrance to Cupar station on 23rd June. Temporary fencing protecting work site.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/06/2008]](/images/19000/19575.jpg "Cupar")
![158 705 at the rear of a five car train stops at Leuchars northbound on 28 July, with Willow Herb covering the former goods sidings.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/07/2008]](/images/20000/20030.jpg "Leuchars")
![170 456 with a Fife Circle line service at Kirkcaldy on 31 July 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 31/07/2008]](/images/20000/20267.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![FSR 158 passing the still waters of Lindores Loch on the journey south to Edinburgh on 7 August 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/08/2008]](/images/20000/20169.jpg "Newburgh")
![Edinburgh to Dundee class 170 unit heading north passing Sweetholm Crossing in a downpour.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/08/2008]](/images/20000/20190.jpg "Ladybank")
![Looking across the main line at Sinclairtown to the former up yard on 22 August. The main occupants of the yard survive in the form of the substantial goods shed and, opposite that, the former Kirkcaldy Depot of National Carriers Limited, whose vehicles were once a common sight in most of our towns and cities. Nowadays these premises are rented out for light industrial and commercial use by various small businesses. [See image 37976]<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/08/2008]](/images/20000/20575.jpg "Sinclairtown [1st]")
![The redevelopment of urban <I>brownfield</I> sites continues to erase reminders of the railway presence from many areas of our towns and cities. One surviving example is the former Sinclairtown goods yard, occupying old railway land on both sides of the line just south of the site of the former station. The remains of the down yard are seen here from the old gate near the corner of Factory Road and Junction Road on a wet 22 August. The down yard handled mainly coal traffic, although sidings ran south to other industrial premises in the area. Imbedded track still exists in many parts of the yard, including a line into the building occupied by the lorry on the right. To the left of the van is part of a long loading bank and beyond that stands the single storey <I>Railway Club</I>. New housing development has now reached the west side of Junction Road, just behind the camera. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/08/2008]](/images/20000/20576.jpg "Sinclairtown [1st]")
![Markinch to Edinburgh local train shortly after leaving Markinch passes over Markinch Viaduct. FSR class 170.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/08/2008]](/images/20000/20368.jpg "Markinch Viaduct")
![Silver NXEC HST set crossing Markinch Viaduct with 1S12 on 23 August 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/08/2008]](/images/20000/20374.jpg "Markinch Viaduct")
![Interesting display at Thornton on 23 August 2008, a tribute to, among other things, its railway heritage. <br><br>[David Panton 23/08/2008]](/images/20000/20501.jpg "Thornton")
![Edinburgh - Perth evening commuter service near Hilton Junction on 28 August. The steading to left is Hilton Farm and the village over the train is Bridge of Earn.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/08/2008]](/images/20000/20427.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Having just left Kinghorn tunnel, the 09.50 Aberdeen - London Kings Cross NXEC service passes Pettycur Bay. A steeply graded branch once dropped to the shore at the left of the train to serve a bottle works. The Forth Bridge stands in the left background.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/09/2008]](/images/20000/20548.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Cross Country Trains class 221 Voyager with the 0730 Bournemouth to Aberdeen passing Sweetholm Farm on 4 September.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 04/09/2008]](/images/20000/20567.jpg "Ladybank")
![Scene just north of Markinch station on 6 September 2008. Units 170396 and 170424, forming a southbound service from Inverness, passing 158741, having recently terminated at Markinch, standing on the down line waiting to cross over and become the 15.24 return service to Edinburgh.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/09/2008]](/images/20000/20602.jpg "Markinch")
![A Fife Circle train skirting Pettycur Bay on 8 September 2008 is about to enter Kinghorn Tunnel. The 'scaffolding and bandages' on the Forth Bridge can be made out in the left background, despite the sea mist hanging over the Forth on this particular morning.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/09/2008]](/images/52000/52515.jpg "Pettycur")
![37401 and 37417 heading empty stock north from SRPS Boness to Aberdeen, passing through Kirkcaldy on 13 September 2008. The train was being moved in readiness for an Aberdeen - Kyle of Lochalsh charter scheduled to take place the following day.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/09/2008]](/images/20000/20684.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Reversal at Kirkcaldy without using the siding. This short working, due to Sunday engineering work, runs back for the return to Edinburgh on 21 September 2008. <br><br>[David Panton 21/09/2008]](/images/20000/20913.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![A blue HST set with silver power cars leaves Leuchars for Dundee on 28 September.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/09/2008]](/images/20000/20958.jpg "Leuchars")
![43320 leads the 1351 Aberdeen to London NXEC service past Leuchars North box and into the station on 29th September.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 29/09/2008]](/images/20000/20857.jpg "Leuchars")
![Springfield station looking south west with a National Express East Coast HST speeding through.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /10/2008]](/images/21000/21375.jpg "Springfield")
![Southbound HST running empty to Craigentinny Carriage Depot passing Springfield. This is a Saturday Only working.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/11/2008]](/images/21000/21289.jpg "Springfield")
![170 419 and 425 pass at Kirkcaldy on 18 November 2008.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/11/2008]](/images/21000/21501.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![View north towards Kinghorn tunnel with part of the trackbed of the short, steeply-graded, Pettycur Harbour branch visible on the right. Opened in 1849, the line was subsequently cut back to serve a bottle factory, located where the modern housing now stands. The branch closed completely in the 1960s and the old factory was eventually demolished in 1984.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 01/12/2008]](/images/21000/21653.jpg "Pettycur")
![Customer information display on the northbound platform at Kinghorn on 20 December 2008. For the first couple of days of the new timetable Inner Circle services were described on information screens, accurately if pedantically, as <I>Newcraighall</I> even though you'd be daft to go that way round. A very quick change of heart and they're now described as terminating at Kirkcaldy - making them indistinguishable from the services in between which actually do. How long I wonder before they revert to <I>Glenrothes with Th</I> which customers understood through familiarity to mean Edinburgh via Dunfermline? <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 20/12/2008]](/images/21000/21838.jpg "Kinghorn")
![View north showing the main station building at Kinghorn on 20 December 2008. Like all other E&N stations on the 1847 Burntisland to Cupar line (apart from the original Burntisland itself when it was a ferry terminal) Kinghorn had a flat canopy supported by closely-spaced plain columns. This colonnade has since been boxed in with wood and the ticket window moved to what was the outside wall. An ornate lamp-bracket attached to one column was cut round and survives, most of it indoors. Other surviving buildings from 1846/7 are Markinch, Ladybank, Springfield and Cupar. Springfield, though long a private house, is closest to how Kinghorn would originally have looked. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 20/12/2008]](/images/21000/21855.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Scene at Bridge of Earn on 29 December 2008. The line has been closed since before Christmas due to engineering work and will reopen after the New Year holiday. <br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 29/12/2008]](/images/21000/21937.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![Once every station had run-in boards but when British Railways became British Rail in 1965 and the signage changed, run-in boards were not generally replaced and very few stations now have them. Kirkcaldy is among that small number and has just had the boards replaced with a prominent <i>Scotland's Railway</i> tag and logo, seen here on 31 January 2009. The sign behind it must have puzzled many people over the years as Dundee is over 30 miles away <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 31/01/2009]](/images/22000/22336.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The sole, disabled-hostile access to Platform 1 at Kinghorn station. 15 February 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 15/02/2009]](/images/22000/22529.jpg "Kinghorn")
![170 418 forms the 1159 Perth-Edinburgh service, just south of Lindores Loch on the Hilton Junction-Ladybank line<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/02/2009]](/images/22000/22584.jpg "Glenburnie Junction")
![156 433, the only 156 so far to be repainted with the saltire logo, leaves Kirkcaldy with an Inner Circle service on 22 Feb 2009. [156s only appear on the Fife Circle on Sundays, being released from Edinburgh - Glasgow via Shotts services which do not operate on that day.]<br><br>[David Panton 22/02/2009]](/images/22000/22600.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![A class 158 forms a 5 coach train with a Class 170 on a Sunday service to Dundee, seen at Kirkcaldy on 22 February. This mixed-stock configuration is quite common on trains from Edinburgh up the East Coast (more common that 2 x 170s) and is the usual arrangement for the two sets needed for the Edinburgh to Dundee stopping services on Sunday. The building on the left houses the newly commissioned lift to street level and booking office and was many months in construction. The building on the Down platform (right) dates from 1962 and is in the boxy style later used in the Glasgow suburban station rebuilding.<br><br>[David Panton 22/02/2009]](/images/22000/22628.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Redundant industrial tank engines rusting away quietly at a previously rail-connected works just south of the former Sinclairtown station in Den Road, Kirkcaldy, on 22 Feb 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 22/02/2009]](/images/22000/22680.jpg "Sinclairtown [1st]")
![A Perth - Edinburgh service passing through Collessie Den on 23 February 2009 formed by unit 158725.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/02/2009]](/images/22000/22626.jpg "Collessie")
![The Spitfire Tours <I>Celtic Growler</I> special passing south through Ladybank on 7 March behind 37676+37606 having arrived off the Perth line. it is abou to cross over to the main up line. (Seen from Heatherinch level crossing.)<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/03/2009]](/images/22000/22769.jpg "Ladybank")
![Aberdeen-bound National Express HST service climbing to Lochmuir Summit, north of Markinch, on 12 March 2009.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/03/2009]](/images/22000/22831.jpg "Markinch")
![Scene just north of Markinch on 12 March as an Aberdeen-bound NXEC service approaches on the climb to Lochmuir Summit.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/03/2009]](/images/22000/22852.jpg "Markinch")
![The Kirkcaldy Harbour branch, which closed in 1984, left the main line at over 100 feet above sea level and reached the dock after half a mile or so. It originally fanned out into a tight little network with switchbacks and headshunts. This appears to be the remains of one or the other which stopped at the main road, just <br>
behind the camera.<br><br>[David Panton 11/04/2009]](/images/23000/23244.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![Old station site at Sinclairtown looking south in April 2009. Note the girders that once supported the booking office.<br><br>[David Panton 11/04/2009]](/images/23000/23320.jpg "Sinclairtown [2nd]")
![A northbound express rushes through the site of Sinclairtown station on 11 April 2009<br><br>[David Panton 11/04/2009]](/images/23000/23438.jpg "Sinclairtown [2nd]")
![45407 <I>Lancashire Fusilier</I> (with additional adornment) passing through Ladybank on 12 April with the returning <I>Great Britain II</I>.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23246.jpg "Ladybank")
![Black Five 45231 and support coach passing Ladybank on the 12th April heading for Thornton Yard. This movement preceded the <i>Great Britain II</i> from Dundee.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23342.jpg "Ladybank")
![170 429 pulls into Burntisland with an Edinburgh service on 18 April 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 18/04/2009]](/images/23000/23421.jpg "Burntisland")
![Edinburgh bound 170 470 passes the disused Burntisland East Junction on 18 April 2009. The junction once provided access to Burntisland docks and locomotive shed, as well as the pier originally used by train ferries to and from Granton prior to the opening of The Forth Bridge in 1890. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 18/04/2009]](/images/23000/23451.jpg "Burntisland East Junction")
![The evening EWS-stocked Outer Circle service pulls into Kinghorn on 4 May 2009 behind 67 003.<br><br>[David Panton 04/05/2009]](/images/23000/23551.jpg "Kinghorn")
![67 003 pulls away from Kinghorn on 4 May 2009 with the returning EWS-stocked Outer Circle service.<br><br>[David Panton 04/05/2009]](/images/23000/23704.jpg "Kinghorn")
![EWS 67 025 rolls into Burntisland on 29 May 2009 with the evening EWS-stocked Fife Outer Circle service. <br><br>[David Panton 29/05/2009]](/images/23000/23923.jpg "Burntisland")
![Power car 43320 leads an Aberdeen-London Kings Cross HST service through Kinghorn on 4 June.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/06/2009]](/images/23000/23976.jpg "Kinghorn")
![An Alphaline liveried 158 approaches Hilton Junction on the Edinburgh line on 5 June.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/06/2009]](/images/23000/23995.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![<I>The Royal Scotsman</I> runs through Markinch on 5 June 2009.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/06/2009]](/images/24000/24000.jpg "Markinch")
![Ten minutes after leaving Perth on 13 June, a southbound First Scotrail DMU en route to Edinburgh runs past the site of Bridge of Earn station.<br><br>[David Forbes 13/06/2009]](/images/24000/24116.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![66 173 and 66 047 at either end of a short PW train standing at Kinghorn on Sunday 14 June. Hard against it is the end of a much longer, ballast train.<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2009]](/images/24000/24109.jpg "Kinghorn")
![66 101 stands at the head of a ballast train at Burntisland East Junction during Sunday engineering works on 14 June 2009<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2009]](/images/24000/24112.jpg "Burntisland East Junction")
![The old Edinburgh & Northern station buildings and a pair of disused cranes, seen from across the dock at Burntisland on 14 June 2009. [Unknown to me at the time the cranes were about to become history and have since vanished.] <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/2009]](/images/24000/24657.jpg "Burntisland")
![Diesel Hydraulic D1015 'Western Champion' coasts downhill from Lochmuir Summit towards Markinch with the <I>Western Chieftain</I> railtour heading back from Inverness to Bristol Temple Meads on 21 June.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/06/2009]](/images/24000/24221.jpg "Markinch")
![The <I>Western Chieftain</I> railtour passes Collessie on 21 June.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/06/2009]](/images/24000/24222.jpg "Collessie")
![The derelict but mainly intact ticket office at the former station of Newburgh. This is another of the Fife stations where lobbying is ongoing with a view to possible future reopening.<br><br>[David Forbes 10/07/2009]](/images/24000/24516.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![The old booking hall at Newburgh station on 10 July 2009. Opened by the Edinburgh and Northern Railway in 1848 (original station further east - Ed), the station closed to passenger traffic in September 1955. Along with a number of former stations in Fife, there have been calls to have train services reinstated here.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/07/2009]](/images/24000/24562.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![170478 in SPT livery calls at Markinch on 26 July with the 1759 to Edinburgh.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/07/2009]](/images/24000/24748.jpg "Markinch")
![The 07.10 Leeds-Aberdeen NXEC service passes Thornton Junction on 24 August with power car 43206 on the rear. On the right is the junction for the Methil branch. Local news reports suggest Network Rail is to officially cease maintenance on the line (although there appears to be little evidence of any such work in recent years) despite current hopes of passenger and freight revivals.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 24/08/2009]](/images/25000/25171.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Photo taken from the goods shed looking south at the goods loading bank and beyond the passenger station building. The goods yard is now used by a timber comapny and a great burger bar called 'Newburgher'.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/09/2009]](/images/25000/25615.jpg "Newburgh [2nd]")
![The listed 1847 Edinburgh & Northern Railway building at Burntisland has been looking a bit shabby since it was vacated by its last tenant, the Forth Ports Authority, in 2001. There has been a small fire since that time. Fortunately, Scottish Government funding is now enabling Historic Scotland to renovate the old building for business and community use. Work can be seen in progress on 30 September in a photograph taken from Forth Place. The 1890 Burntisland station remains unaffected. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 30/09/2009]](/images/25000/25661.jpg "Burntisland")
![Ongoing restoration work at Burntisland on 30 September. The long disused outbuilding which adjoined the wooden passageway has been swept away.<br><br>[David Panton 30/09/2009]](/images/25000/25664.jpg "Burntisland")
!['To Edinburgh & Glasgow' announces the 1960s block-serif lettering above the door to Platform 1 at Burntisland on 30 September. Edinburgh has always been the main destination, although several services a day from the east coast did run direct to Glasgow via the Forth Bridge and the Dalmeny to Winchburgh line. That stopped in 1970, not to be reinstated until 1996 when a sole daily return service was introduced between Kirkcaldy and Glasgow (and still runs). For 26 years however that 'Glasgow' remained as if imminent reintroduction were expected. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 30/09/2009]](/images/25000/25717.jpg "Burntisland")
![I don't believe that cigarette vending machines were ever much of a <br>
feature at stations, so this survivor at Burntisland in September 2009 is all the more remarkable. When it sold its last packet they were 20p (surely for 10, though it doesn't say) so it can't have been long after decimalisation in 1971. Nobody has troubled to remove it, and it is all of a piece with the 'period' decor.<br><br>[David Panton 30/09/2009]](/images/25000/25840.jpg "Burntisland")
![170 401 leaves Kirkcaldy with the hourly Edinburgh to Dundee semi-fast service on Saturday 21 November. Behind it lies the now indespensible car park, full of commuters' cars during the week, which was built a few years ago on the land once occupied by the extensive goods yard. The few terminating trains, when needing to clear the main line, use the siding which starts under the rear coach. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 21/11/2009]](/images/26000/26441.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Conflicting evidence at Aberdour station on Sunday 10 January. It <br>
can't be 0602: in fact it's 1026. In what seems to me a bizarre fault the CIS display on the northbound plaform got stuck early one morning in the last days of 2009 as if frozen in the prolonged cold spell. Well there's a thaw today but it hasn't started moving again... <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 10/01/2010]](/images/27000/27127.jpg "Aberdour")
![Evening at Kirkcaldy, looking south on 24 January 2010.<br><br>[David Panton 24/01/2010]](/images/27000/27423.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The sharp-eyed may spot an East Coast 125 in this photograph of 31 <br>
January, sandwiched between ranks of caravans at this resort at the <br>
southern end of Kinghorn. The houses at the bottom right occupy the <br>
site of a rail-served bottle factory, the line continuing to the <br>
harbour at Pettycur. The junction for the branch started in front of the overbridge at left-centre, so it's clear the gradient was pretty steep. For a view from that bridge [see image 21653].<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 31/01/2010]](/images/27000/27472.jpg "Pettycur")
![Kinghorn - freezing foggy February foredawn, forsooth. Looking north over the platforms on 17 Feb 2010<br><br>[David Panton 17/02/2010]](/images/27000/27768.jpg "Kinghorn")
![170420 arriving at Cupar with a Dundee - Edinburgh service on 23 March 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/03/2010]](/images/28000/28255.jpg "Cupar")
![170420 leaves Cupar on 23 March 2010 and heads south on a Dundee - Edinburgh working.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/03/2010]](/images/28000/28263.jpg "Cupar")
![A Dundee-Edinburgh service, formed by 170428, calls at<br>
Ladybank on 8 April 2010. <br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 08/04/2010]](/images/28000/28427.jpg "Ladybank")
![The afternoon northbound <I>East Coast</I> HST about to race through Markinch station on 8 April 2010.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 08/04/2010]](/images/28000/28437.jpg "Markinch")
![Scene at Kirkforthar Bridge on the northern approach to Markinch on 13 April with 70013 beating a steady exhaust as it climbs south to Lochmill Summit heading for Edinburgh with <I>The Great Britain III</I>.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2010]](/images/28000/28504.jpg "Markinch")
![Having completed its work on the GBIII railtour, no 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> and support coach head back to Thornton Yard on 13 April. Photographed here passing Springfield.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2010]](/images/28000/28508.jpg "Springfield")
![On 14 April 170 416 pulls into Leuchars with one of the hourly Dundee to Edinburgh semi-fast services. These trains are a fairly recent addition to the hourly Aberdeen services and have doubled the number of daytime services here, as well as doubling the work (or at least the lever-pulling) of the signalman in the box in the background. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/04/2010]](/images/28000/28538.jpg "Leuchars")
![View over the south end of Leuchars station on 14 April 2010. The site of the bay used by some East Fife line services can clearly be made out. St Andrews still appears on the departure monitors here, but the platform number is 'BUS'. Note the shortening of the Up platform: this is mirrored at the northern end [see image 28538] making Platform 1 significantly shorter than Platform 2. This is quite an achievement for an island station and I can't quite work out the rationale behind it! <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/04/2010]](/images/28000/28588.jpg "Leuchars")
![The former Milton Junction was where the East Fife line left the main line just south of Leuchars station. The box which controlled it was called Leuchars South. The East Fife line was single so a tablet was needed, therefore a tablet platform was located alongside the box. This odd remnant is the lamp which illuminated the platform, still in situ 41 years after the closure of the junction and box. Photographed in April 2010 by sticking my head over the parapet of the overbridge on which it is mounted! <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/04/2010]](/images/28000/28592.jpg "Milton Junction")
![Edinburgh bound 158734 arriving at Burntisland on 15 April 2010.<br><br>[John Steven 15/04/2010]](/images/28000/28533.jpg "Burntisland")
![158735 runs into Kinghorn station on 15 April with a service to Glenrothes.<br><br>[John Steven 15/04/2010]](/images/28000/28542.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Looking resplendent no 1. Kinghorn on 15 April 2010.<br><br>[John Steven 15/04/2010]](/images/28000/28550.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Looking resplendent No 2. Burntisland on 15 April 2010.<br><br>[John Steven 15/04/2010]](/images/28000/28554.jpg "Burntisland")
![158707 draws to a halt at Burntisland on 26 April with a stopping service to Glenrothes with Thornton.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 26/04/2010]](/images/28000/28686.jpg "Burntisland")
![170416 runs south towards Edinburgh past the disconnected former Docks branch at Burntisland Links on 26 April 2010. The vacant area on the far right of the picture is the site of the former works/locomotive shed.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 26/04/2010]](/images/28000/28697.jpg "Burntisland")
![67 025 pulls into Kirkcaldy with the evening Outer Circle service on 10 May 2010<br><br>[David Panton 10/05/2010]](/images/28000/28946.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Seafield pit, just to the south of Kirkcaldy, was planned in the late 1950s and it was said it would last for 150 years. Despite this 'kiss of death' in longevity terms it did, nonetheless, manage 23 years in full production, closing in 1988 and having its prominent towers blown up the following year. It had a seam <br>
reaching well out under the Firth of Forth, coincidentally towards <br>
Seafield in Edinburgh which is within sight. This is, as far as I can recall, where the signal box stood between the ECML (left) and access to the colliery. [See image 29023]<br><br>[David Panton 15/05/2010]](/images/29000/29016.jpg "Seafield Colliery")
![170 393 passes the site of the junction for Seafield Colliery with a southbound service on 15 May 2010 [see image 29016]<br><br>[David Panton 15/05/2010]](/images/29000/29023.jpg "Seafield Colliery")
![A Perth - Edinburgh train photographed near Annsmuir Crossing, Ladybank on 18 May 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/05/2010]](/images/29000/29100.jpg "Ladybank")
![57601 heading north from Spondon to Dundee with a railtour approaching Sweetholm Crossing near Ladybank as a 170 passes heading south.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/05/2010]](/images/29000/29038.jpg "Ladybank")
![An East Coast 125 speeds south through Springfield on 21 May 2010.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/05/2010]](/images/29000/29044.jpg "Springfield")
![67017 with <I>The Northern Belle</I> heading for Dundee, seen about to pass Springfield on 21 May.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/05/2010]](/images/29000/29049.jpg "Springfield")
![On 30 May 170 416 approaches the Up platform at Kinghorn with a service for, unusually, Dunfermline Town. The Forth Bridge line has been closed on Sundays in May for engineering work so services are using the north to east curve at Inverkeithing thus avoiding Inverkeithing station. Passengers for Edinburgh are bussed from Dalgety Bay. Out on the Firth of Forth a vessel (one of eight) waits its turn to go up river. Below decks there are no doubt swarthy men in greasy vests playing cards.<br><br>[David Panton 30/05/2010]](/images/29000/29160.jpg "Kinghorn")
![From the evidence of its driving lights 170 473 appears to be heading towards the camera at Kirkcaldy station on 30 May, but in fact it is retreating from the Up line into the siding having arrived from the north and changed ends. This unusual working is due to engineering works. Had it been entering the siding from the Down line the shunt-ahead signal attached to the post would be showing two white lights allowing the driver to pass the main signal at danger.<br><br>[David Panton 30/05/2010]](/images/29000/29168.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The unusual site of a train leaving Kirkcaldy 'wrong line' on Sunday 30 May. The temporary timetable caused by engineering works saw a <br>
two-hourly service from Dunfermline Town to Kirkcaldy via Thornton. <br>
This unit is heading for the Down siding where it will bide its time <br>
before entering the Down platform for return to Dunfermline.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 30/05/2010]](/images/29000/29181.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The 1526 ex-Ladybank heads for Perth past fields near the Fife village of Collessie in the summer of 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /06/2010]](/images/29000/29634.jpg "Collessie")
![The 1726 service to Perth about to leave Ladybank on 3 June. It will shortly pass the incoming 1730 for Edinburgh which is standing in the Loop.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 03/06/2010]](/images/29000/29226.jpg "Ladybank")
![67 023 restarts from Kirkcaldy on 23 June with its morning Inner <br>
Circle service to Edinburgh via Dunfermline. Going the other way is a pair of class 170s, forming the 0727 to Edinburgh via the coast. The scenery's nicer via the latter route, but which train would you rather be on? <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 23/06/2010]](/images/29000/29709.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![East Coast's morning Leeds to Aberdeen service about to pass the Seafield Colliery junction site on 23 June 2010<br><br>[David Panton 23/06/2010]](/images/29000/29728.jpg "Seafield Colliery")
![A 5 car 170 train for Dundee, lengthened from the normal 3-car set due to the Open Golf Championship at St Andrews, calls at Ladybank on 17 July 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/07/2010]](/images/29000/29865.jpg "Ladybank")
![Construction work currently underway at Cupar station on the long-awaited disabled access. View over the up platform on 18 July 2010. [See image 16815] <br><br>[Andrew Wilson 18/07/2010]](/images/29000/29860.jpg "Cupar")
![The main station building at Cupar. View across the lines from the southbound platform on 18 July. The A914 crosses the railway on the bridge in the left background.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 18/07/2010]](/images/29000/29873.jpg "Cupar")
![The main station building at Cupar, complete with its impressive floral arrangements, seen here looking north from the car park on 18 July 2010. <br><br>[Andrew Wilson 18/07/2010]](/images/29000/29892.jpg "Cupar")
![Cupar signal box. View across the running lines from the up platform on 18 July 2010. <br><br>[Andrew Wilson 18/07/2010]](/images/29000/29907.jpg "Cupar")
![EWS 66100 hauls the 6X88 ex-Hartlepool pipe train through<br>
Ladybank on 27 July en route to Georgemas Junction.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/07/2010]](/images/29000/29993.jpg "Ladybank")
![Piling and excavation activity in progress at Cupar station on 11 August 2010 as work on the provision of disabled access continues alongside the southbound platform. <br><br>[Andrew Wilson 11/08/2010]](/images/30000/30313.jpg "Cupar")
![View across the running lines at Cupar station on 11 August 2010 showing construction work in progress to facilitate disabled access to the southbound platform.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 11/08/2010]](/images/30000/30343.jpg "Cupar")
![67030 with ECS off the 17.21 Edinburgh - Cardenden passing Burntisland Docks on 13 August.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/08/2010]](/images/30000/30238.jpg "Burntisland")
![67025 passes Burntisland Links on 13 August with the 17.08 Edinburgh - Fife Circle service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/08/2010]](/images/30000/30243.jpg "Burntisland")
![The course of the 'Dubbie Shunt' can just be made out on the far right as 170 476 heads south at speed, about to pass the site of Dysart station in August 2010. This short branch served the Frances Colliery, which was known locally as 'The Dubbie' after a sea-facing brae - which was ruined by the sinking of the pit!<br><br>[David Panton 21/08/2010]](/images/30000/30386.jpg "Dysart")
![The second trip of the SRPS special photographed alongside Pettycur Bay on 22 August with Burntisland in the background.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/08/2010]](/images/30000/30377.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A 156 in Fife? It can only be a Sunday, when the stock is released <br>
from the Shotts line. 156 465 pulls into Burntisland station on 29 August, drowning out the competing bells of the Kirk and the Free Kirk. The Hill Street roadbridge is on quite a steep gradient for a bridge, creating a bit of an optical illusion: an impression of a skew which, on a closer look, isn't there. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 29/08/2010]](/images/30000/30487.jpg "Burntisland")
![ScotRail 170 416 forms the 16.05 to Dundee, on time at Cupar on 1st September 2010.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 01/09/2010]](/images/30000/30516.jpg "Cupar")
![Medieval fortifications? No, just ongoing work on what must be well on its way to becoming an impressive disabled access to the southbound platform at Cupar. Progress on 1 September 2010.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 01/09/2010]](/images/30000/30532.jpg "Cupar")
![East Coast 43 299 approaches Kirkcaldy with the afternoon Aberdeen - London Kings Cross service on 20 September 2010.<br><br>[David Panton 20/09/2010]](/images/30000/30791.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Work on the new disabled access to the up platform at Cupar nears completion on 10 October 2010.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 10/10/2010]](/images/31000/31008.jpg "Cupar")
![Renovation of the 1847 terminus building at Burntisland is complete. <br>
It has been sympathetically restored and converted into office suites. Behind the scenes however things look a little less formal. The roof of the 1847 building can be seen to the right. At an angle on the left is the 1890 platform building, still in use and staffed. The walkway behind the fence gives access to the Up platform when the ticket office is closed, and the covered ramp lead down to Harbour Place. It's obvious that a structure which was attached to it has recently been removed.<br><br>[David Panton 10/10/2010]](/images/31000/31022.jpg "Burntisland")
![The covered walkway at Burntisland station photographed on 10 October. This ramp links the Up platform with Harbour Place. Rather like the ticket office [see image 25717] this all wooden construction, complete with zero-carbon air conditioning, has an air of the past about it.<br><br>[David Panton 10/10/2010]](/images/31000/31220.jpg "Burntisland")
![The former John Haig headquarters and bottling plant is quite a <br>
landmark on the rail journey north through Fife. 'John Haig & Co Ltd, Markinch' it says in feet-high letters. The plant was once (naturally) rail served and embedded rails still exist, as can just be seen in this view of 27 October 2010.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 27/10/2010]](/images/31000/31266.jpg "Markinch")
![Anyone unfamiliar with Markinch station would assume this is a look along the platform, but in fact the Down platform is one storey below: it's almost as if the 1847 builder misread the architect's drawing. As the debris might indicate this building is no longer in use. The ticket office moved to a swish new building when the station became a transport interchange 3 years ago. Note the lettering on the lampshades. This is in the Gill Sans typeface used by British railways until 1964 and in the Scottish Region colour of light blue. A rare survivor, protected no doubt by its position of invisibility from the platform. <br><br>[David Panton 27/10/2010]](/images/31000/31307.jpg "Markinch")
![A rather patriotic run-in board at Kirkcaldy station. Brings a tear to the eye, doesn't it? <br><br>[David Panton 27/10/2010]](/images/31000/31340.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![158 786, still stubbornly without any branding after a respray from SWT livery about 3 years ago, restarts from Markinch with a Perth to Edinburgh service on 27 October. <br><br>[David Panton 27/10/2010]](/images/31000/31356.jpg "Markinch")
![One for the signage fans. The changes in franchises and images over the years didn't usually mean that Scottish station signs were fully replaced, and the brand stripe at the bottom often became a palimpsest ['erased and used for another text'. Ed]. Signs are currently being replaced with the saltire versions, but immediately before that signs were only replaced when really necessary, and then only a few locations with signs with non-bold lettering and a blue FSR stripe as opposed to a purple one with the FSR logo stuck on top. Markinch received them 3 years ago when it became a transport interchange. [Star of Markinch is not a TV talent show winner but the Sunday name of the village of Star.]<br><br>[David Panton 27/10/2010]](/images/31000/31371.jpg "Markinch")
![The newly constructed disabled access to the southbound platform at Cupar seen here on 21 November 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/11/2010]](/images/31000/31590.jpg "Cupar")
![A CrossCountry Voyager calls at Cupar on 21 November 2010. The new zig zag ramp to facilitate disabled access to the southbound platform has now been constructed behind the station building [see image 16815]<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/11/2010]](/images/31000/31599.jpg "Cupar")
![Heralded by an announcement including exotic locations like Tiverton <br>
Parkway and St Erth the daily Aberdeen to Penzance Cross Country service calls at Markinch on 29 January. It is less than 2 hours into its 13 hour 22 minute journey, Britain's longest scheduled service - in distance and surely also duration. On the wall on the right you can see traces of a large sign which said 'Markinch for Glenrothes' but after 'Glenrothes with Thornton' station opened in 1992 the 'for Glenrothes' was scratched out and the sign later removed. This is despite the fact that Markinch station is nearer both the periphery and the centre of Glenrothes. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 29/01/2011]](/images/32000/32543.jpg "Markinch")
![The 'Lang Toun' is the home of linoleum: the world's biggest and oldest factory is here. This notice at the station on 12 February 2011 is therefore a bit of a letdown: blame the adhesive. Note the imaginative use of the word 'afoot'.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 12/02/2011]](/images/32000/32762.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The Kirkcaldy Harbour branch, which closed in 1984, had an Alton Towers gradient of 1 in 21. Here is the course of the branch on 12 February looking downhill towards the harbour. The gradient is noticeable even on foot. No these aren't rails but a twin row of concrete kerbstones without a kerb. I can't explain that one.<br><br>[David Panton 12/02/2011]](/images/32000/32822.jpg "Kirkcaldy Harbour")
![<I>The Boy in the Train</I>. A 6ft tall work at Kirkcaldy station with each letter cut from, and inlaid in, the linoleum for which the town is famed. It is written in no dialect that I recognise. I've never heard anyone pronounce Kirkcaldy 'Kirkcaddy', which funnily enough is easier to find suitable rhymes for than the correct pronunciation. Harbour 'mou' '? Right, I'll shut up. Photographed on 12 February 2011. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 12/02/2011]](/images/32000/32844.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The old wagon shops at Ladybank on 23 February 2011, photographed from a passing train on the Perth line [see image 32886].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 23/02/2011]](/images/32000/32901.jpg "Ladybank")
![<I>'This'll doo'</I> (sorry) as the driver of 66093 (at the head of a ballast train) admires the pigeons on a pleasant Sunday morning in Burntisland.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/02/2011]](/images/32000/32994.jpg "Burntisland")
![170 458 leaving Kinghorn on 5 March with a service to, unusually, Dunfermline Town due to a diversion caused by weekend engineering works. At least passengers on Platform 1 would have been aware in advance where this train was heading: a Customer Information Screen has just been installed there, 4 years after one was installed on Platform 2. NR and FSR waiting on each other, apparently: though that was in 2008! <br><br>[David Panton 05/03/2011]](/images/33000/33115.jpg "Kinghorn")
![170s off the north end of Kirkcaldy station, one in the siding and the other on the Up line, on Sunday 6 March. The siding is not normally used on a Sunday as there are no terminating trains, but a special timetable was in place for engineering work diversions. Note the painting of Bennochy Road overbridge. There was a fad in the 1980s for painting such bridges with geometric shapes. To today's eyes it has the effect of drawing attention to something humdrum without making it attractive. How tastes change.<br><br>[David Panton 06/03/2011]](/images/33000/33126.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Locals on the Fife coast line are normally going to Waverley, but a few each day are extended to Newcraighall. This Customer Information Screen has recently been installed on Platform 1 at Kinghorn, Platform 2 having had one for about 4 years. Presumably limited clearance (the platform is narrow) is the reason for the 'menu' style screen rather than the sideways scrolling style. It's odd that menu screens don't show the current time: wouldn't this be rather easy to arrange? <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 16/03/2011]](/images/33000/33250.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A 4-car 158 set approaches Markinch with an Inverness to Edinburgh <br>
service on 19 March. The rear of the train is passing the crossover <br>
once used for reversing by the hourly terminating service from <br>
Edinburgh. It doesn't see much use since the service pattern changed and Markinch lost its terminating trains, though there are more through services. Note the HST car stop sign way off the end of the platform. Markinch has had an HST service (by Virgin) though three other Fife stations with the 'stranded H' never have.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 19/03/2011]](/images/33000/33277.jpg "Markinch")
![170 473 pulls out of Kirkcaldy on 19 March with a Glenrothes service. Although the siding from the Down line is used daily for terminating trains I'm not sure what the station siding in the foreground is used for, if anything. By the state of the track it's been a long time since that shunting signal changed, or a driver's shell-like was applied to the hotline.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 19/03/2011]](/images/33000/33328.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![An Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street service heads south over the recently restored Earn Crossing on 24 March 2011.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 24/03/2011]](/images/33000/33333.jpg "Earn Viaduct (Forgandenny)")
![A northbound train takes the Perth line at Ladybank in April 2011.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2011]](/images/33000/33657.jpg "Ladybank")
![A 5-car 158+170 combination heading north past Kingskettle on Sunday afternoon 3 April 2011.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 03/04/2011]](/images/33000/33495.jpg "Kingskettle")
![67024 works the 17.08 Edinburgh - Fife - Edinburgh service on 4 April, seen here at Kirkcaldy.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/04/2011]](/images/33000/33500.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![67021 nears Dysart on 6 April with the empty stock from the 17.20 Edinburgh - Cardenden service. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/04/2011]](/images/33000/33532.jpg "Dysart")
![170 417 approaches Cupar with an Edinburgh - Dundee semi-fast on 9 April 2011.<br><br>[David Panton 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33595.jpg "Cupar")
![170 417 stands at the platform of the Italianate 1847 Cupar station with an Edinburgh - Dundee semi-fast on 9 April 2011.<br><br>[David Panton 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33627.jpg "Cupar")
![The track configuration at Ladybank Junction means that trains coming<br>
off the Perth line have to use the Down line for a couple of hundred <br>
yards, and so, if calling at Ladybank, use the 'wrong' platform. This 6-car 170 with an Perth to Edinburgh service is doing just that on 9 April. This is the third scheduled southbound service in 13 minutes! A quiet north Fife village can't enjoy that level of service all day of course, but like some other Scottish stations it probably sees more trains now than it ever has.<br><br>[David Panton 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33640.jpg "Ladybank")
![170 450 pulls out of the rather exposed station at Leuchars with an <br>
Inverurie service on 9 April. Notice that despite this being an island station the the platforms don't end together. This isn't compensated for at the southern end: in fact it's repeated making the Up platform a fair bit shorter than the Down. It's still big enough for the longest service trains, but you do wonder what they had in mind here.<br><br>[David Panton 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33648.jpg "Leuchars")
![This relic of bottom-end railway architecture looks like something <br>
you'd come across on a long-lifted branch. In fact it's just off the Down platform at Kirkcaldy in April 2011. My guess is that it was an inflammables store (oil for signal lamps?) placed just far enough out of harms way, and that it's never been worth the cost and bother of removing it. <br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33682.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![170 426 arives at Cupar station with a Dundee to Edinburgh semi-fast on 9 April 2011.<br><br>[David Panton 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33703.jpg "Cupar")
![158 733 and 170424 pass near the former connection to Seafield Colliery, Kirkcaldy, on 11 April 2011.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/04/2011]](/images/33000/33609.jpg "Seafield Colliery")
![170 416 heads south past the former Seafield Colliery sidings on 11 April.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/04/2011]](/images/33000/33634.jpg "Seafield Colliery")
![47786 with the Compass Tours <I>Mersey, Forth & Tay Circular</I> heading north 25 minutes late at Kirkforthar, near Markinch, Fife, on 13 April en route to Dundee.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2011]](/images/33000/33650.jpg "Markinch")
![46115 'Scots Guardsman' climbs towards Lochmuir Summit, north of Markinch, on 17 April with the Edinburgh - Aberdeen - Inverness leg of the <I>Great Britain IV</I> tour.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 17/04/2011]](/images/33000/33687.jpg "Markinch")
![The morning <I>Forth Circle</I> special photographed on 24 April nearing Burntisland station behind no 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I>.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 24/04/2011]](/images/33000/33784.jpg "Burntisland")
![DRS 47832 about to run through Ladybank on 2 July with the <I>'Northern Belle'</I> heading for Leuchars. <br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/07/2011]](/images/34000/34744.jpg "Ladybank")
![170 456 and 158 786 pass at Burntisland on 11 July.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/07/2011]](/images/34000/34818.jpg "Burntisland")
![DBS 67001 enters Burntisland on 11 July with the 17.08 Edinburgh - Fife - Edinburgh commuter train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/07/2011]](/images/34000/34835.jpg "Burntisland")
![66141 stands in the down loop at Ladybank Junction with an engineer's train on 6 November 2011. To the left is the line through Newburgh to Hilton Junction with the remains of the old wagon shops in the background.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/11/2011]](/images/36000/36301.jpg "Ladybank")
![ScotRail external relations manager John Yellowlees makes the presentation to Councillor Margaret Kennedy at Cupar station on 14 November 2011. They are joined by staff members John Mullen and Hannah Cooper along with representatives of the 'Friends of Cupar Station' [see News item].<br><br>[First ScotRail 14/11/2011]](/images/3000/3848.jpg "Cupar")
![The Fife Circle add-on to the Spitfire Railtours <I>Edinburgh Explorer II</I> passes south through Kinghorn on 19 November 2011 with 57001 leading and 50044 + 50049 bringing up the rear.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/11/2011]](/images/36000/36471.jpg "Kinghorn")
![50044+50049 bring up the rear of the <I>'Edinburgh Explorer II'</I> special as it returns south through Kinghorn on 19 November [see image 36471].<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/11/2011]](/images/36000/36478.jpg "Kinghorn")
![170411 catches the low sunshine on 5 February as it passes Thornton Junction with the 15.25 from Perth to Edinburgh. At right, the Methil branch and its signal disappear into the undergrowth.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/02/2012]](/images/37000/37493.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![Extensive PW work in Fife during closure of the coast line on 12 February included replacement of the crossover at Kirkcaldy station and removal of the up siding (a last remnant of the old goods yard).<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/02/2012]](/images/37000/37580.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The cutting to the north of the tunnel at Kinghorn being cleared of vegetation and stabilised during line occupation on Sunday 12 February 2012.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/02/2012]](/images/37000/37594.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Engineering work underway at Kirkcaldy on Sunday 12 February 2012 [see image 37580].<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/02/2012]](/images/37000/37603.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![66141 stands above Nicol Street, Kirkcaldy, with an engineers train on 12 February 2012. The train is waiting to be called forward to the work site at Kirkcaldy station [see image 37580].<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/02/2012]](/images/37000/37622.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![<I>'I don't recall any mention of abseiling in the PW manual!'</I> Stabilisation work underway on the cutting north of Kinghorn tunnel on 12 February 2012.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/02/2012]](/images/37000/37638.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A 'Northern Belle' <I>Valentines Special</I> from Glasgow Central to Perth and return passes Burntisland Links and relay room on 18 February 2012. The leading locomotive is 47810 with 47790 bringing up the rear.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/02/2012]](/images/37000/37669.jpg "Burntisland")
![The 14.00 from Waverley bang on time at Leuchars on a dreich March afternoon, formed by Turbostar 170 450.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 02/03/2012]](/images/37000/37876.jpg "Leuchars")
![Some of the exhibits on display within the new Cupar Heritage Centre, located in the former Station Master's cottage, seen here on 14 April 2012. The Centre will be open from 12 to 4 on Saturdays and from 2 to 4 on Sundays. [see news item]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/04/2012]](/images/5000/5300.jpg "Cupar")
![Cupar Heritage chairman Guthrie Hutton at the opening of the new Cupar Heritage Centre on 14 April 2012 seen (above) introducing Sir Bob Reid and (below) with some of the local volunteers who have been involved with the project [see adjacent news item].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/04/2012]](/images/32000/32950.jpg "Cupar")
![The second of the SRPS 'Forth Circle' railtours of 28 April, hauled by 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> climbs away from Sinclairtown.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/04/2012]](/images/38000/38613.jpg "Sinclairtown [2nd]")
![Two class 170 units pass between Kinghorn Tunnel and the station on 19 June. The cutting had been cleared of vegetation and stabilised earlier this year. In the background is the Art Deco former <I>Regal</I> cinema.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/06/2012]](/images/39000/39308.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Lynette Gray at Kinghorn [see news item]. <br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/09/2012]](/images/3000/3756.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Looking across the platforms at Kinghorn station in September 2012 - see news item.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/09/2012]](/images/4000/4632.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Part of the car park at Kinghorn station - see news item.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/09/2012]](/images/5000/5186.jpg "Kinghorn")
![158707 heads north at Thornton Junction on 11 September, passing 66140 lurking on the former Methil branch with a coal train from Earlseat to Hunterston. [See image 40284]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/09/2012]](/images/40000/40290.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![The Ladybank Primary School cheque presentation on 15 November - see news item.<br><br>[ScotRail 15/11/2012]](/images/11000/11758.jpg "Ladybank")
![Ladybank Railway Station improvement project information brochure - see news item. <br><br>[ScotRail 15/11/2012]](/images/12000/12528.jpg "Ladybank")
![Looking north to Kingskettle from Forthar on 5 January, with 66103, 66069 and 66206 each on a train of reclaimed track and ballast from Ladybank.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/01/2013]](/images/45000/45865.jpg "Kingskettle")
![DBS 66197 hauls an engineers train from Millerhill to Thornton Junction (for Ladybank) through Kirkcaldy on 18 January.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/01/2013]](/images/46000/46002.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The bufferstop of the former Kinross bay platform (trains had to <br>
reverse onto and off the branch until its closure in 1950) is visible <br>
in the stationmaster's garden at Ladybank, where trees have been removed <br>
from the up sidings.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 06/02/2013]](/images/41000/41976.jpg "Ladybank")
![The bufferstop of the former Kinross bay platform is now clearly visible as work proceeds on the creation of a biodiversity garden with pond at Ladybank station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/03/2013]](/images/42000/42464.jpg "Ladybank")
![The 1700 Perth - Edinburgh passing the site of Bridge of Earn station<br>
on 4th April 2013.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 04/04/2013]](/images/42000/42610.jpg "Bridge of Earn")
![This roundel of a J36 - appropriately the last working class of steam <br>
locomotive in Scottish mainline service, and based in Fife - by local <br>
sculptor Kenny Munro now decorates the station car-park which has been <br>
landscaped by the Kinghorn Station Studios and Gallery. [See image 23043]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/04/2013]](/images/42000/42667.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A Saltire-liveried 170 heads south over Markinch viaduct. View east on 29 April. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/04/2013]](/images/42000/42966.jpg "Markinch Viaduct")
![The rear of platform 1 at Ladybank station on 21 May 2013, with the Luddon crew in the process of removing the old sidings. A car park with platform entrance will eventually appear here.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/05/2013]](/images/43000/43167.jpg "Ladybank")
![170403 heads north between Burntisland and Kinghorn on 27 May 2013.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/05/2013]](/images/43000/43248.jpg "Pettycur")
![The Darlington - Dundee Northern Belle between Kinghorn tunnel and station on 15 June behind 47501. No 47832 was on the rear of the train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/06/2013]](/images/43000/43409.jpg "Kinghorn")
![47832 brings up the rear of the <I>Northern Belle</I> passing through Kinghorn station on 15 June en route from Darlington to Dundee. 47501 is on the front of the train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/06/2013]](/images/43000/43416.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Track work in progress on the viaduct at the west end of Burntisland High Street on 22 June 2013. Train services were being diverted via Dunfermline over the weekend.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/06/2013]](/images/43000/43511.jpg "Burntisland")
![170424 nears Dysart on 6 July with the 12.34 from Dundee to Edinburgh.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/07/2013]](/images/43000/43688.jpg "Dysart")
![West Coast 57315 leads a Compass Tours excursion from Saltburn to Dundee through Kirkcaldy on 10 August with 47826 bringing up the rear.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 10/08/2013]](/images/44000/44162.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![170419 calls at Cupar on the way to Dundee on 22 August. Alongside the other platform a squad from Babcock Rail were showing interest in the semaphore signal. <br><br>[John Gray 22/08/2013]](/images/44000/44363.jpg "Cupar")
![Dunnikier Road, Kirkcaldy, looking south east on 31 August 2013. Above the camera is the modern concrete span carrying the Edinburgh - Dundee main line. Alongside is the steel bridge which carried the Kirkcaldy harbour branch until closure in 1984. Next week's road closure may mean removal of the structure.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/08/2013]](/images/44000/44411.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Scotrail 158728 calls at the recently upgraded Ladybank station with a Perth service on 13 September. The photograph was taken from the new ramp from the car park. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/09/2013]](/images/44000/44578.jpg "Ladybank")
![New car park on the east side of Ladybank Station on 13 September 2013. The photograph is taken from the new pathway leading to Number one platform. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/09/2013]](/images/44000/44587.jpg "Ladybank")
![DRS 47805 leads the <I>Northern Belle</I> through the site of Thornton Junction station on its way from Glasgow Central to Perth on 14 September.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/09/2013]](/images/45000/45636.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![DRS 47501 brings up the rear of the <I>Northern Belle</I> on 14 September 2013 as it turns into the down loop alongside the site of Thornton Junction station. [See image 45636] <br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/09/2013]](/images/45000/45645.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![158724 and friend forming the 10.36 from Edinburgh to Perth on 28 September. Photographed nearing the former Seafield Colliery connection south of Kirkcaldy.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/09/2013]](/images/44000/44772.jpg "Seafield Colliery")
![West Coast 57314 about to enter Kinghorn Tunnel with <I>The Statesman</I> charter from Newport to Inverness on 5 October. 47786 brings up the rear of the special.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44863.jpg "Pettycur")
![DBS 66065 stands at Forthar, between the former stations at Falkland Road (in the background) and Kingskettle on 5 December 2013. The locomotive is at the head of a train of track panels from a relaying programme at Ladybank. The short-lived Forthar Lime Works branch trailed in from the left. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/12/2013]](/images/45000/45855.jpg "Falkland Road")
![The Forthar Lime Works branch (between the former stations at Falkland Road and Kingskettle) ran along the cutting parallel to the road on the right and curved underneath it in the foreground. [See image 45855]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/12/2013]](/images/45000/45922.jpg "Falkland Road")
![Looking north at Ladybank Station during track renewal on 5 January 2014. DBS 66107 stands in the backround. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/01/2014]](/images/45000/45860.jpg "Ladybank")
![Looking south at Ladybank Station during track renewal works on 5 January 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/01/2014]](/images/45000/45867.jpg "Ladybank")
![Looking south to Ladybank Junction past the ruinous E P & D workshops on 5 January - looking like the left hand line might be realigned through the middle of the formation.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/01/2014]](/images/45000/45874.jpg "Ladybank")
![66175 waits with a train of ballast hoppers on the Newburgh line north of Ladybank station on 5 January during track renewal works. [See image 45867]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/01/2014]](/images/45000/45887.jpg "Ladybank")
![Kirkcaldy Harbour branch bridge over Dunnikier Road is currently in course of demolition. Seen here on 18 January 2014 with the deck already gone as a class 170 speeds past with a Fife Circle service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/01/2014]](/images/46000/46028.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The East of Scotland 4mm Group's model of Burntisland (Old) at Model Rail Scotland, Glasgow, on 22 February 2014. (Also on display this year).<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/02/2014]](/images/58000/58226.jpg "Burntisland [1st] [Model]")
![ScotRail 170408 prepares to leave Cupar as the 09.55 to Dundee on 10 March 2014.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 10/03/2014]](/images/46000/46611.jpg "Cupar")
![Seen through the South Road bridge, Turbostar 170408, forming the 09.00 from Edinburgh Waverley, rolls into Cupar on a bright and sunny Monday morning on 10 March on its way to Dundee.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 10/03/2014]](/images/46000/46622.jpg "Cupar")
![158713 + 158733 forming the 13.02 Perth - Edinburgh Waverley service passing Coaltown of Balgonie on 19 March 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/03/2014]](/images/46000/46726.jpg "Coaltown of Balgonie")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> climbs to Pettycur, between Burntisland and Kinghorn, with the first <I>Forth Circle</I> on 27 April.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/04/2014]](/images/47000/47131.jpg "Pettycur")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> with the Inverness - Aberdeen - Edinburgh leg of the <I>Great Britain VII</I> tour on 3 May, climbing towards Lochmuir summit between Falkland Road and Markinch.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/05/2014]](/images/47000/47202.jpg "Lochmuir Summit")
![The Inverness - Aberdeen - Edinburgh leg of the <I>Great Britain VII</I> nearing Dysart on Saturday 3 May behind A4 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I>.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/05/2014]](/images/47000/47220.jpg "Dysart")
![WCRC 47746 climbs away from Dysart with <I>The Cathedrals Express</I> from Appleby to Inverness on 10 May 2014. The diesel locomotive hauled the train as far as Thornton where 44871+45407 took over. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 10/05/2014]](/images/47000/47278.jpg "Dysart")
![Black 5s 44871+45407 pass Thornton North Junction with <I>The Cathedrals Express</I> for Inverness on 10 May 2014. [See image 47278]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 10/05/2014]](/images/47000/47297.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![DBS 66113 with the Mossend - Aberdeen Waterloo service, diverted through Fife on 24 May because of engineering work in the Larbert area. The train is seen here passing Kirkcaldy. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 24/05/2014]](/images/47000/47410.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![West Coast 37685 passes Kinghorn on its way from Dundee to Craigentinny on 24 May.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 24/05/2014]](/images/47000/47417.jpg "Kinghorn")
![A shot taken on 22nd June 2014 showing 66601 exiting the Perth route with a working for Millerhill. The 66 is in the same spot as the 40060 in my previous photograph.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 22/06/2014]](/images/57000/57888.jpg "Ladybank")
![Power car 43251 brings up the rear of the 14.52 Aberdeen - Kings Cross HST as it enters Kirkcaldy on 2 August. The entire train carried the latest East Coast livery.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 02/08/2014]](/images/48000/48260.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![170460 arrives at Leuchars on 2 September with the 12.34 Dundee - Edinburgh.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 02/09/2014]](/images/48000/48564.jpg "Leuchars")
![43306 brings up the rear of the 09.52 East Coast service to Kings Cross as it departs Leuchars on 2 September 2014. In the foreground is the stub of the branch that latterly served RAF Leuchars, fully signalled but disconnected by removal of the turnout crossing. [See image 33603]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 02/09/2014]](/images/48000/48576.jpg "Leuchars")
![170423 leaves Leuchars on 2 September 2014 with the 11.34 Dundee - Edinburgh.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 02/09/2014]](/images/48000/48584.jpg "Leuchars")
![Ex-LMSR 46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> with the morning SRPS <I>Forth Circle</I> entering Kinghorn station on 14 September.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/09/2014]](/images/48000/48704.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Currently the UK's longest scheduled end-to-end railway journey. A CrossCountry Voyager pauses at Cupar on 2 October with the 0820 Aberdeen - Penzance. The train is scheduled to complete its 722 mile, 13 hour 23 minute journey at 2143.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 02/10/2014]](/images/48000/48885.jpg "Cupar")
![The surviving buffer-stop in the former Kinross bay at Ladybank station in March 2015 [see image 42464].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/03/2015]](/images/50000/50617.jpg "Ladybank")
![Colas 56113 and 56078 enter Kinghorn station on 4 July 2015 with a Millerhill - Inverness ballast train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/07/2015]](/images/51000/51863.jpg "Kinghorn")
![West Coast 47804 leads the <I>Royal Scotsman</I> stock into Burntisland with the Newcastle - Kingussie leg of a charter from London Victoria on 23 August. 47802 was on the rear of the train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/08/2015]](/images/52000/52347.jpg "Burntisland")
![Andy Savage, executive director of the Railway Heritage Trust, and Christine May, chair of the Fife Historic Buildings Trust, today (20/10/2015) opened the Laird's Waiting Room at Ladybank station.<br><br>
<br><br>
The building may be the oldest building at the station site and may have originally been a ticket office and waiting room. The Lairds in question are the Haig family.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 20/10/2015]](/images/53000/53017.jpg "Ladybank")
![Track renewal in progress during engineering possession at Cupar on Sunday 31 January 2016. View south from the A914 road bridge with Cupar station behind the camera. [Ref query 8067]<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 31/01/2016]](/images/54000/54093.jpg "Cupar")
![Track replacement work within the station limits at Cupar on 31 January 2016. View north towards Leuchars. The tail of the engineers train can be seen in the background, with locomotive 66005 out of sight around the curve.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 31/01/2016]](/images/54000/54665.jpg "Cupar")
![The scene at Cupar during tack replacement operations at the end of January 2016, with two road/rail vehicles operating on the line.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 31/01/2016]](/images/54000/54751.jpg "Cupar")
![170425 passes Pettycur Bay with an Inverness - Edinburgh service. In the background is Pettycur Harbour, which was used to deliver materials for construction of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway. The branch line created would later serve a coke works and bottleworks. Sand was extracted from the beach below and drawn up an inclined tramway by a stationary engine on the headland now occupied by a caravan site, to the rear of the train. See the OS 25' map of 1914.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/03/2016]](/images/54000/54735.jpg "Pettycur Harbour")
![DBS 68003 passes Burntisland links with the evening Cardenden - Mossend empty stock working. The loco is passing over the severed link to the docks.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/04/2016]](/images/54000/54759.jpg "Burntisland")
![Flowers at Burntisland station, courtesy of Floral Action Burntisland.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 19/04/2016]](/images/55000/55045.jpg "Burntisland")
![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 nobody saving them?<br><br>[John Yellowlees 23/04/2016]](/images/54000/54908.jpg "Sinclairtown [1st]")
![GBRf 66733 at the head of the Royal Scotsman in Thornton Down Loop.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/04/2016]](/images/54000/54938.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![66733 and 66746 with the Royal Scotsman parked in Thornton Down Loop for afternoon tea. The crumbling bridge in the foreground carried the branch to Balgonie Colliery's Lochtyside and Julian pits.<br>
25 April.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/04/2016]](/images/54000/54957.jpg "Thornton Junction")
![The latest version of the ScotRail network map sees the return of colour coding. It's a pity that the colours don't always match those on the timetables ...<br><br>[David Panton 17/05/2016]](/images/55000/55222.jpg "Ladybank")
![60026 leads empty cement tanks from Aberdeen to Oxwellmains into Kirkcaldy on 9 July.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 09/07/2016]](/images/55000/55714.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![46100 'Royal Scot' speeds through Kirkcaldy with the 'Forth Circle' on 20 August.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/08/2016]](/images/56000/56238.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![Cupar Heritage railway display. The museum created in 2012 by <a target=external href=http://www.cuparheritage.org.uk/>Cupar Heritage</a> in the former stationmaster's house at Cupar Station is open at weekends and on Wednesday afternoons.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/09/2016]](/images/56000/56641.jpg "Cupar")
![Are we to believe that a six-car Class 170 is a yard longer than a six-car 158? Photographed 19/10/2016.<br><br>[David Panton 19/10/2016]](/images/56000/56921.jpg "Ladybank")
![On the way to his tailor in Edinburgh, the laird of this quiet bit of Fife was presumably reluctant to share a waiting room with the riff-raff. Although all looks fine here there is no door on the platform side. Was he really that desperate not to mingle or has the door has been filled in? It's not obvious. Photographed 19/10/2016.<br><br>[David Panton 19/10/2016]](/images/56000/56931.jpg "Ladybank")
![While the unoccupied building on the southbound platform at Ladybank is up for let, the northbound one, shared with the ticket office, houses Kirsty Lorenz, a commercial artist, with premises that are off the from-Edinburgh platform and the 'Off the Rails Arthouse', a charity, which occupies the former stationmaster's house. The lettering on the signs is in the British Railways typeface of Gill Sans: deliberate? <br>
<br>
The architectural style is Italianate, built sufficiently early that the railway station pattern hadn't really been established.<br><br>[David Panton 19/10/2016]](/images/56000/56937.jpg "Ladybank")
![A lampholder on the footbridge at Springfield.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 15/01/2017]](/images/57000/57854.jpg "Springfield")
![Burntisland of 1883 in 2017, at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/02/2017]](/images/58000/58234.jpg "Burntisland [1st] [Model]")
![One of the the southern, harbourside, of the two pedimented porches of the original Burntisland station building of 1847.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 20/04/2017]](/images/59000/59075.jpg "Burntisland [1st]")
![The classical original terminus building, looking well, now used for small businesses and artists' workshops. The building was in use as railway offices until the 1960s, remaining disused since making its survival all the more remarkable.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 20/04/2017]](/images/59000/59084.jpg "Burntisland [1st]")
![Kinghorn viaduct, 4 arches, taken from the coastal path. The station is out of shot, to the left.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 23/04/2017]](/images/59000/59097.jpg "Kinghorn Viaduct")
![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 white house is Sinclairs entry.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 23/04/2017]](/images/59000/59108.jpg "Kinghorn Viaduct")
![Failure of the booked 60056 in Aberdeen meant Colas had to dispatch 70802 from Grangemouth to bring the cement empties south. With a friendly wave from the driver, 70802 nears Dysart with 60056 just visible dead on the rear. 29 May.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/05/2017]](/images/59000/59418.jpg "Dysart")
![158734 calls at Cupar with a southbound service on 3 June. To the left of the signal box in the background is the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee goods warehouse, refurbished for commercial use.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/06/2017]](/images/59000/59614.jpg "Cupar")
![Another new car park under construction at Leuchars station. [Perhaps there is a large, and formerly rail served, town nearby -Ed].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 16/06/2017]](/images/59000/59731.jpg "Leuchars")
![Black 5 45407 makes a spirited departure from Kirkcaldy with the returning <I>Fife & Borders</I> excursion on 13 August 2017. [Shades of <i>Where are ye gang next Mr <b>Roberton</b></i> -Ed]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/08/2017]](/images/60000/60530.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![44871 climbs away from Dysart with the SRPS excursion to Fife and the Borders on 20th August 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/08/2017]](/images/60000/60444.jpg "Dysart")
![37685 on the rear of the SRPS Borders Railway excursion, returning from Tweedbank on 20th August 2017. The train has just passed Dysart. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/08/2017]](/images/60000/60555.jpg "Dysart")
![A sign commemorating Sir Sandford Fleming at Kirkcaldy.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 06/10/2017]](/images/61000/61515.jpg "Kirkcaldy")
![The old Burntisland station, viewed with the quayside lines in the foreground.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 26/10/2017]](/images/61000/61953.jpg "Burntisland [1st]")
![West Coast 57316 runs through Kinghorn with a route learner working on 30th January 2018.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 30/01/2018]](/images/62000/62797.jpg "Kinghorn")
![Under construction at Leuchars - a new Caledonian Sleeper lounge.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 24/03/2018]](/images/63000/63328.jpg "Leuchars")
