Leven Dock Railway

Introduction

A short portion of this line will re-open for the new Levenmouth station. This line is mothballed except for the sidings at the now closed and infilled Leven Dock. This was a goods only line running from what later became Kirkland Yard to the dock. Access was in fact from the east - a reversal from the goods yard at Leven [1st] followed by a second reversal at a headshunt at Kirkland. It was replaced by a huge remodelling of the location Kirkland Yard and Leven Dock to Methil Line Widening (North British Railway) which incorporated the original line.






Dates

  /12/1908Leven Dock Railway
Line from Kirkland Yard to Methil Docks quadrupled.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This was the original terminus of the Leven Railway. It was just west of Leven [2nd] which replaced it when the line was extended east by the East of Fife Railway to Kilconquhar.
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Leven Railway
East of Fife Railway
The view east to the site of the first Leven station, later the goods yard, in 2008. On the right was the reversing spur used to reach Leven Dock and ...
Ewan Crawford 04/01/2008
View west along the course of the Leven branch in July 2013, now the access road to the KFRPS's Methil site. ...
Bill Roberton 06/07/2013
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A new terminus serving Leven, Innerleven and Methil will be built below the A955 Bawbee Bridge which crosses over the River Leven and the former freight only line to Methil Power Station and the docks. This new site for the terminus is required as the sites of Leven [1st] and Leven [2nd] stations are not available.
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Kirkland Yard and Leven Dock to Methil Line Widening (North British Railway)
Network Rail has commissioned the signalling system on the new £116m Levenmouth Rail Link - meaning trains can use the line.
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Network Rail /01/2024
Network Rail has commissioned the signalling system on the new £116m Levenmouth Rail Link - meaning trains can use the line.
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Network Rail /01/2024
Opening day plaque on the 1957 version of the Bawbee Bridge. The bridge crosses both the river and Leven Dock / Kirkland to Methil line and the site ...
John Yellowlees 02/05/2022
Scotland's Transport Minister, Fiona Hyslop, has today installed the final pandrol clip to mark completion of track laying on the Levenmouth Rail Link ...
Network Rail 25/08/2023
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This junction, actually at Levenmouth, was formed in 1914 during the works to open Methil Dock No 3. Kirkland Yard was laid out to the west, a great improvement on the single track line from the Kirkland Siding reversing spur in Leven. A quadruple track was laid from the yard to Methil East Junction where there were sidings on the site of the Leven Dock and a new quadruple track ...

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Leven Extension Railway (Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway)
Kirkland Yard and Leven Dock to Methil Line Widening (North British Railway)
20118 and 20148 depart Methil with empty coal slurry wagons for Westfield on a bright September 1990 evening. ...
Roger Geach 13/09/1990
20199 and 20204 draw an empty slurry train away from Methil Power Station and under the Bawbee Bridge. Its predecessor carried the Wemyss & District ...
Bill Roberton //1983
37692 departs Methil with empty wagons for Killoch via Thornton Junction in 1995. Ex-scrap carrying wagons were used to carry coal slurry. This will ...
Roger Geach 22/03/1995
20199 and 20204 draw an empty slurry train away from Methil Power Station, and under the Bawbee Bridge, in 1983. The bridge's predecessor carried the ...
Bill Roberton //1983
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Leven Dock siding (though the dock was infilled long ago) on 23 August 1980. Prominent is the sign for W A Lawson & Co, coal merchants. The yard ...
Bill Roberton 23/08/1980
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