Charlestown

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Charlestown (1894-1926)

Where: Fife, Scotland
Opened on the Charlestown Railway.

Description

This was a single platform station with a typical North British Railway building.

It was on the shoreline and had a passing loop but no sidings. The platform was on the north side. It was located in the eastern part of the Charlestown shoreline not far west of Limekilns. The line approached from the west. The site was reclaimed land.

The site is now housing on the south of Saltpans road.

There was an earlier station, Charlestown [1st], at the top of the incline to the harbour of the Elgin Railway. Charlestown [1st] closed in 1863.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map


Chronology Dates

01/11/1926Charlestown Railway
Charlestown to Dunfermline (Elbowbend Junction) closed to passengers.
24/02/1964Charlestown Railway
Charlestown to RNAD Crombie siding (excluded) closed to freight.