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Glencraig, Bowhill And Lady Helen Collieries Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![The B981 road bridge spanning the trackbed of the former branch running to Glencraig Colliery, Fife (closed 1966), which left the Bowhill line just beyond Bowhill Junction to the west of Cardenden. Photographed looking west in May 1991.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 17/05/1991]](/images/37000/37042.jpg "Bowhill Junction")
![Looking south east along the Bowhill branch towards Glencraig Junction on 17 May 1991. A class 150 unit is passing on a Fife Circle service between Cardenden and Lochgelly.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 17/05/1991]](/images/37000/37057.jpg "Glencraig Junction")
![End of the line at Bowhill in May 1991, with track lifted beyond the NCB gate. (The pit closed in 1968 but the preparation plant survived into the 1980s).<br><br>[Bill Roberton 17/05/1991]](/images/37000/37079.jpg "Bowhill")
![Viaduct over the River Ore on the Bowhill branch, Fife, located between Bowhill Junction and Glencraig Junction, carrying a line that served various collieries in the area west of Cardenden. Photographed looking south west in May 1991.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 17/05/1991]](/images/37000/37081.jpg "Ore Viaduct")
![The remains of the Bowhill Branch in Fife, where a new Industrial Estate is under construction at the extent of the tracks that ran into Bowhill Washery. In addition, the cutting between Glencraig Junction on the branch and the overbridge towards the site of Glencraig Colliery has also been infilled.<br><br>[Grant Robertson 07/02/2012]](/images/37000/37553.jpg "Bowhill")
![Redevelopment work underway on the former Bowhill branch in Fife [see image 37553].<br><br>[Grant Robertson 07/02/2012]](/images/37000/37562.jpg "Bowhill")
![A surviving auto rail oiler alongside the trackbed at Bowhill in February 2012. [See image 37562]<br><br>[Grant Robertson 07/02/2012]](/images/37000/37582.jpg "Bowhill")
![Looking west from the Pitcairn Road level crossing along the Glencraig Colliery (closed 1966) branch, Fife, on 9 November 2012. [See image 37042]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 09/11/2012]](/images/40000/40977.jpg "Glencraig Colliery")
