Kelty Disposal Point
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Kelty Disposal Point (1942-1961)Opened on the West of Fife Mineral Railway.
Description
This was a coal loading point with stocking. The facility was opened by the Ministry of Fuel and Power which was created in 1942 during the Second World War.
The site consisted of two sets of sidings approached from the north east, from Lassodie North Junction. The sidings cut through the site of the former Lassodie Colliery Branch south to west curve. After the war it was operated by Whatlings Ltd.
The opencast was also known as St Ninians Opencast and provided coal for the Longannet Power Station.
It was just to the south of the site of the former Lassodie Colliery Pits Nos 10 and 11.
Closed in 1961. Nothing remains due to subsequent opencast operations.
Operated by Whatlings Ltd.
Tags
Sidings depot coalAliases
St Niniians Opencast| Nearby stations Crossgates (Fife) Kelty Halbeath Cowdenbeath Cowdenbeath (Old) Dunfermline Queen Margaret Blairadam Dunfermline Upper Lochgelly Dunfermline (Comely Park) Dunfermline City Dunfermline Nethertown [2nd] Dunfermline [1st] Rosyth Donibristle Platform | Lassodie West Junction Lassodie Colliery Pits Nos 10 and 11 Lassodie Junction St Ninians Opencast Lassodie North Junction Lassodie Colliery Pit No 4 Lassodie Colliery Pit No 9 Kingseat Colliery Pit No 3 Kingseat Colliery Pit No 2 Lassodie Colliery Pit No 6 Lassodie Colliery Lassodie Mill Colliery Tourist/other Lochfitty Crossing Windyedge Crossing Loch Fitty |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1963 | West of Fife Railway and Harbour Kelty Disposal Point (Lassodie) to Lassodie North Junction to Kelty (excluded) closed. |
News items
| 19/02/2022 | Kelty: Coal road discovered at former St Ninians opencast mine [Dunfermline Press] |
Books
 A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series) |  Fife's Lost Railways |  Railways of Fife |  The Railways of Fife |
