Charlestown Buffer
Location type
PlaceNames and dates
Charlestown Goods Signal Box (1894-1925)Charlestown Buffer (1925-1993)
Opened on the Charlestown Railway.
Description
This signal box was in the west of Charlestown a little to the location of the later Braeside Junction. The box controlled the connection between the line to the passenger station and the Charlestown Harbour sidings (laid out around 1896), which were approached from the north east.
The passenger station closed in 1926, and the box closed in 1925 just beforehand. The line remained open for goods until 1964 when it was cut back to a reversing spur at Braeside Junction for RNAD Crombie.
Tags
Junction signal box harbour
| Nearby stations Charlestown [1st] Braeside Halt Charlestown Cairneyhill Dunfermline [1st] Dunfermline Netherton Torryburn Rosyth Dockyard Dunfermline Town Dunfermline (Comely Park) Rosyth Dunfermline Upper Bo^ness Oakley (Fife) Philpstoun | Braeside Junction Charlestown Viaduct Charlestown Limekilns Charlestown Brick and Til Works Limestone Quarry Charlestown Foundry Charlestown Salt Works The Glen Quarry Waggon House Brucehaven Limestone Quarry Tourist/other Charlestown Harbour RNAD Crombie Flooded Quarry Limekilns Harbour Broomhall House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
