Fife and Kinross Railway

Introduction

This line is closed. It was originally a single track line running west from Ladybank to a terminus in Kinross. The junction at Ladybank was awkward requiring a reversal having departing the station. The Kinross terminus was replaced when the line was extended south to reach the Kinross-shire Railway. With the opening of the Forth Bridge Railway the portion of line from Kinross [3rd] to Mawcarse was doubled and a portion realigned for main line use.






Dates

  /  /1855Fife and Kinross Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
  /  /1857Kinross-shire Railway
Fife and Kinross Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
06/06/1857Fife and Kinross Railway
Line opened between Ladybank and Strathmiglo.
09/03/1858Fife and Kinross Railway
Line opened from Strathmiglo to Milnathort.
20/08/1858Fife and Kinross Railway
Line opened from Milnathort to Kinross [1st].
20/08/1860Fife and Kinross Railway
Kinross-shire Railway
Joint station opened at Hopefield.
  /  /1861Fife and Kinross RailwayEdinburgh and Northern Railway
Fife and Kinross Railway absorbed by the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway.
27/11/1949Fife and Kinross Railway
Derailment during permanent way works at Strathmiglo results in a death.
06/06/1950Fife and Kinross Railway
Ladybank (excluded) to Mawcarse Junction (excluded) closed to passengers. Auchtermuchty, Strathmiglo and Gateside closed.
29/01/1957Fife and Kinross Railway
Ladybank (excluded) to Auchtermuchty (excluded) closed to goods and completely.
13/06/1964Fife and Kinross Railway
Mawcarse and Milnathort stations closed to passengers.
05/10/1964Fife and Kinross Railway
Auchtermuchty to Mawcarse Junction (excluded) closed to goods and completely.
05/01/1970Kelty to Cowdenbeath (North British Railway)
Kinross-shire Railway
Fife and Kinross Railway
Glenfarg Line (North British Railway)
Cowdenbeath (Cowdenbeath North Junction) to Perth (Hilton Junction) closed to passengers. Kinross Junction [2nd] station closed.
Cowdenbeath to Milnathort singled.
Bridge of Earn Junction (excluded) to Milnathort (excluded) closed to all traffic.
04/05/1970Kinross-shire Railway
Fife and Kinross Railway
Milnathort to Kelty North Junction (excluded) closed to freight.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Ladybank to Kinross

This is a two platform station with the main original station building on the northbound platform, architect probably David Bell. The building is a complicated structure with different numbers of storeys.
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Edinburgh and Northern Railway
With a severe right turn at the junction ahead, 800106 runs sedately through the platforms at Ladybank on a Kings Cross to Aberdeen service on 2nd ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2021
An Arbroath to Edinburgh service calls at Ladybank on 2 September 2020. The shelters are unsympathetic to the original buildings on both sides. At ...
David Panton 02/09/2020
170410, on the 1334hrs from Edinburgh to Perth on 2nd August 2022, left Ladybank almost on time, but immediately had a scheduled wait of nine minutes ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2022
27036 southbound through Ladybank in Fife, heading for Edinburgh on 13 November 1981.
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Peter Todd 13/11/1981
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This junction was south of Ladybank station on the west side of the line. Via a headshunt, approached from the north, the Fife and Kinross Railway could be reached and its bay platform on the west side of the station. Between the junction and the bay platform was a loop to allow the branch trains to run round. Malt Barns Siding was on the branch, approached by a headshunt. There were ...

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Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Removal of vegetation in (non-railway) groundworks immediately to the southwest of Ladybank station has revealed this struture in all its modest ...
David Panton 03/10/2018
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This was a single platform station with the platform on the north side of a single track line. The station was south of Auchtermuchty itself.
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Wide view looking north from alongside the B936 towards Auchtermuchty in September 2010. The station was located to the south of the town and sat ...
John Furnevel 03/09/2010
Looking to Kinross. ...
Ewan Crawford 17/03/2007
Auchtermuchty station building, incorporated into a larger 'Sterling' Depot building. ...
John Yellowlees 14/01/2017
Former station at Auchtermuchty. Incorporated into a Sterling furniture depot. ...
Ewan Crawford 17/03/2007
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This was a single platform station on the south side of the single track line. The station was to the north west of Strathmiglo itself.
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Goods shed at west end of station buildings. The old arched entrance has been modified. ...
Brian Forbes 20/03/2007
Station building west view at Strathmiglo, near wooden part was the waiting room. Platform lifted and chipped over. ...
Brian Forbes 20/03/2007
Strathmiglo station in 1981 after conversion to a house. ...
Craig Seath //1981
Station front at Strathmiglo. Closed to passengers 1950, closed for goods 1964. By kind permisson of Tom Ross. ...
Brian Forbes 20/03/2007
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This was a single platform station with a station building at the east end, next to a road overbridge. The platform was on the south side of the single track line.
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The station at Gateside has been closed for over seventy years but the house is still occupied and has been extended behind over the area where the ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2021
A view towards Mawcarse and Kinross from the overbridge at Gateside in August 2021. The line closed to passengers in 1950 but freight passed through ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2021
Gateside station building, and extension over the platform area, seen from the road bridge to the north east in 1996. ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
Old bridge over the River Eden at Gateside, the line closed to all traffic circa 1966. The wooden balustrades denote a modern footpath along this ...
Brian Forbes 03/06/2008
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This was a two platform station.
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Glenfarg Line (North British Railway)
A view from the overbridge of the site of Mawcarse station in August 2021. Most traces of the station have been removed but the goods loading bank is ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2021
Looking north east towards the junction from the former loading bank at Mawcarse in 1996. The station's island platform was on the right.
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Ewan Crawford //1996
Overbridge to the west of Mawcarse station where the trackbed is crossed by the A911. View looks west. [With thanks to Brian McDevitt for correcting ...
Brian Forbes 01/01/2007
View NE from Arlary Bridge. Mawcarse Junction site is still visible. This was a main junction to either Perth or Ladybank from Kinross and the south. ...
Brian Forbes 29/03/2008
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This woollen mill was to the north of Milnathort station and rail served. The mill has largely been demolished, except the stone engine house which is a fine building. It is in derelict condition. ...

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This was a two platform station on a double track line, which became a main line, with a goods yard on the north side, approached from the east. The station was south of Milnathort itself.
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This modern building occupies the site of Milnathort station, but is named 'Station House' in recognition of the site. Viewed from the old station ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2022
Station Cottage at Milnathort, alongside the old approach road, certainly seems to be an original building from the time of the railway. The other ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2022
Milnathort goods shed seen in 1995. The goods yard was on the north side of the station. The photograph was taken from the site of the northbound ...
Ewan Crawford //1995
Station remains at Milnathort, Kinross-shire, looking south east in September 2010. Opened in 1858 on the NB Glenfarg route between Mawcarse Junction ...
John Furnevel 03/09/2010
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This station opened with the opening of the Forth Bridge Railway and Glenfarg Line (North British Railway). It was an island platform station.
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View east over the M90 to Kinross in the 1990s. The supermarket in the centre of the view is alongside the site of the junction while the first and ...
Bill Roberton //1999
I've heard rumours that this was a portion of platform remaining at Kinross Junction. A revisit confirmed this is a length of retaining wall on the ...
Ewan Crawford 12/01/2018
Looking south from Gallowhill Road, Kinross, the solum of the line heading south for Kinross Junction. In fact recently the local Perth & Kinross ...
Brian Forbes 26/10/2007
This extract from the OS One Inch map of 1957 shows two lines long gone. The Perth direct line skirts Loch Leven which was the name of the already ...
David Panton //1957
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This was a terminus opened at Hopefield - the terminus of Fife and Kinross Railway. Closed as not used in end on junction. ...

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Kinross Extension

This station opened with the opening of the Forth Bridge Railway and Glenfarg Line (North British Railway). It was an island platform station.
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View east over the M90 to Kinross in the 1990s. The supermarket in the centre of the view is alongside the site of the junction while the first and ...
Bill Roberton //1999
I've heard rumours that this was a portion of platform remaining at Kinross Junction. A revisit confirmed this is a length of retaining wall on the ...
Ewan Crawford 12/01/2018
Looking south from Gallowhill Road, Kinross, the solum of the line heading south for Kinross Junction. In fact recently the local Perth & Kinross ...
Brian Forbes 26/10/2007
This extract from the OS One Inch map of 1957 shows two lines long gone. The Perth direct line skirts Loch Leven which was the name of the already ...
David Panton //1957
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This station replaced Kinross [1st] when the Fife and Kinross Railway met the Kinross-shire Railway at Loch Leven, Kinross [3rd].
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Devon Valley Railway
View looking north to Kinross Junction. The main line ran from bottom right to distant right on a gentle curve, with the bridge over the South Queich ...
Ewan Crawford 05/09/2023
The approach of the Devon Valley Railway to the junction at Kinross has been obliterated near the motorway. The main line through Kinross has been ...
Ewan Crawford 30/08/2023
This view looks north towards Kinross Junction from a removed bridge which crossed the Devon Valley Railway, reduced to a muddy footpath. The main ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
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This was a two platform station. There was a goods yard and locomotive shed to the south (or east) of Kinross High Street, the station was to the north (or west) of this.
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Kinross-shire Railway
View south to Loch Leven station (in the background) from the partly dismantled bridge over the South Queich. ...
Ewan Crawford 05/09/2023
The buildings of Loch Leven station seen from the north. The station was built on the connection between the Kinross-shire Railway and the Fife and ...
Ewan Crawford 05/09/2023
View looking down on the South Queich bridge in Kinross. The northern end of the bridge is at the top. ...
Ewan Crawford 05/09/2023
Just north of Loch Leven station the railway crossed the South Queich. After the railway became a main line this was a double track bridge. As Bill ...
Ewan Crawford 05/09/2023
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