West of Fife Railway and Harbour






Dates

01/08/1861West of Fife Mineral Railway
Charlestown Railway
West of Fife Railway and Harbour
West of Fife Mineral Railway merged with Charlestown Railway to create the West of Fife Railway and Harbour Company.
  /  /1862West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Line extended from Kingseat Colliery Pit No 1 to Lassodie Mill Colliery (Viewfield Colliery).
29/07/1862West of Fife Railway and Harbour
North British Railway
West of Fife Railway and Harbour absorbed by the North British Railway.
  /  /1863West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Line extended from Lassodie Mill Colliery (Viewfield Colliery) to Kelty by North British Railway.
  /  /1863West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Elgin Junction to Elgin Colliery Balmule Pit opened by North British Railway. (Approx date.)
  /  /1866West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Elbowend Junction [1st] to Townhill Junction opened, linking the Charlestown Railway to the West of Fife Mineral Railway. (Allowing the Pittencrieff Incline to close?)
  /  /1880West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Townhill Waggonway
Townhill Junction to Lilliehill Junction opened by North British Railway, providing a second route to Dunfermline. The route used part of the former Townhill Waggonway.
  /  /1900West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Cowglen Quarry branch opened by North British Railway. (Approx date.)
07/07/1930Kincardine Branch (North British Railway)
Kincardine and Dunfermline Railway (North British Railway)
West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Alloa [1st] (Kincardine Junction) to Dunfermline Lower via Culross closed to passengers.
07/06/1951West of Fife Railway and Harbour
West of Fife Mineral Railway
Lethans Colliery Pit No 2 to Steelend Goods to Gask Junction (excluded) closed.
  /  /1960West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Elgin Colliery Balmule Pit to Elgin Junction (excluded) closed. (Approx date.)
  /  /1963West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Kelty Disposal Point (Lassodie) to Lassodie North Junction to Kelty (excluded) closed.
  /  /1971West of Fife Railway and Harbour
RNSD Lathalmond closed.
  /  /1976West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Townhill Power Station [2nd] to Lilliehill Junction to Townhill Junction closed.
  /06/2008West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Suggestion that Dunfermline Town be renamed Dunfermline City to support the town's status. Not carried out. (Dunfermline became a city in 2022.)
  /11/2022West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Dunfermline Town renamed Dunfermline City.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This junction was formed when the Charlestown and Dunfermline Railway was met by the 1866 West of Fife Railway and Harbour. Both lines were single track and the signal box (dating from 1894) was in the 'V' of the junction.
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Elgin Railway
Kincardine and Dunfermline Railway (North British Railway)


GBRf 66714 'Cromer Lifeboat' eases along the little-used line through Culross with Ballast 6K02 from North Queensferry to Millerhill on 29 October ...
Bill Roberton 29/10/2023
68004 nears Charlestown Junction, having just passed the former Elbowend Junction, with the Grangemouth - Aberdeen Craiginches intermodal service, ...
Bill Roberton 06/12/2020
An SPT-liveried 170 approaches Charlestown Junction with Dunfermline's skyline in the background.  A south to west chord has been proposed here, ...
Bill Roberton 16/08/2010
20137+20119 with a train from RNAD Crombie approaching Charlestown Junction in 1991, with the formerly rail-served gas works in the background.
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Bill Roberton //1991
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This is a double track fifteen section viaduct on a curve just west of Dunfermline Town station. There are 13 masonry arches, one 'blind arch' and a girder. The viaduct is 435 ft long overall and 30 ft high.
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Edinburgh service runs out onto Bothwell Street Viaduct shortly after leaving Dunfermline Town station on 15 June. ...
Bill Roberton 15/06/2007
Coal empties from Longannet approaching Dunfermline Town off Woodmill Viaduct in the summer of 2002. The train is heading for Halbeath sidings, where ...
John Furnevel 29/08/2002
Curved masonary viaduct immediately south of Dunfermline Town station. ...
Brian Forbes 24/07/2007
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This is a two platform station with the main station building on the northbound platform. The building is a stone built single storey with a canopy over the entrance. A flat roofed platform canopy runs the full length of the building. Opposite is a modern brick shelter. There are car parks on either side of the station.
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New signage at Dunfermline City on the 24th of November 2022. ...
Bill Roberton 24/11/2022
The lower entrance at Dunfermline City, on 31st December 2022. ...
John Yellowlees 31/12/2022
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This junction opened in 1890 with the Forth Bridge to allow a Edinburgh Waverley - Stirling service via Oakley. The north end of the new curve was at Touch North Junction.
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Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway
Looking west along Halbeath Road as 170396 crosses with a Fife Circle service on 20 September 2021. The dip in the road allowed trams from the ...
Bill Roberton 20/09/2021
Memories of Touch South Junction. This plate is on a bridge between Dunfermline Town and Dunfermline Queen Margaret. ...
John Yellowlees 17/05/2019
Climbing away from Dunfermline. ...
Bill Roberton 09/10/2016
Edinburgh bound 158732 on the eastern approach to Dunfermline Town station on 13 June.
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Bill Roberton 13/06/2011
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This is a relatively new two platform station built to serve the expanding town of Dunfermline and its Queen Margaret Hospital. There is a car park on the north side.
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A frosty morning at Dunfermline, Queen Margaret on 20 January 2023 as the 1001 service to Edinburgh Waverley (0956 ex-Cowdenbeath) arrives at platform ...
Andy Furnevel 20/01/2023
Exotic stock (for West Fife) attracts the attention of customers awaiting an Edinburgh service at Queen Margaret on 27 August 2020. The CrossCountry ...
David Panton 27/08/2020
Dunfermline Queen Margaret station under construction in 1999. ...
Ewan Crawford //1999
66109 runs through Dunfermline Queen Margaret station in 2001 hauling coal destined for Longannet Power Station, after reversing at Townhill Yard. The ...
Bill Roberton //2001
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The 1866 West of Fife Railway and Harbour, for Charlestown, met the 1849 Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway) at this junction. The location was just west of the Townhill Tramway route and Halbeath. Approach to the Charlestown line was from the east, the line running south west. The Dunfermline and Queensferry to the line to North Queensferry [1st] ...

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Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway)
West of Fife Mineral Railway
66021 takes a train of empties out of Halbeath sidings and heads south for the Forth Bridge in June 2006. ...
John Furnevel 13/06/2006
Townhill loops looking east in 1992. In the foreground is the stump of the West of Fife Mineral railway connection, latterly serving Townhill Power ...
Bill Roberton //1992
150258 passes the future site of Dunfermline Queen Margaret Station in April 1992. On the right is the stump of the Dunfermline Upper/Kincardine ...
Bill Roberton 15/04/1992
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