Kirkness Farm Siding
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Kirkness Farm SidingDescription
This siding was located on the south side of the goods and minerals only Kelty - Redford Junction line at Capeldrae. It was approached from the west.
Capeldrae Colliery was to the north, possibly worked out by the time the railway opened.
On the north side of the Lochore Branch (North British Railway) were the sidings of Lurgi Gas Plant. A little further east was the yard and loading point of the Westfield Opencast, reached by reversal. (Later replaced by a loading point actually in the yard.)
Tags
Capeldrae Siding02/12/2021
| Nearby stations Lochgelly Cardenden Kelty Blairadam Leslie Cowdenbeath Cowdenbeath (Old) Loch Leven Curler^s Platform Kinross [2nd] Loch Leven Mawcarse Kinross [1st] Kinross Junction [1st] Kinross Junction [2nd] Crossgates (Fife) | Capeldrae Colliery Lurgi Gas Plant Capeldrae Colliery Westfield Disposal Point [1st] Westfield Disposal Point [2nd] Westfield Opencast Kirkness Colliery Rosewell Colliery Pit No 3 Rosewell Colliery Pit No 2 Rosewell Colliery Pit No 1 [End of line] Ballingry Siding Lochore Colliery Wester Crosshill Colliery Tourist/other Lochore House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1960 | Lurgi Gas Plant Lochore Branch (North British Railway) Opened by the National Coal Board to utilise low rank coal from Westfield Opencast in a high pressure gasification process. The plant produced the base load of the central Scotland gas supply. The site was served by sidings from the nearby line, next to Kirkness Farm Siding. |
| / /1966 | Lochore and Redford Extension (North British Railway) Westfield to Kinglassie Line (North British Railway) Lochore Branch (North British Railway) Line closed between Kirkness Farm Siding, Capeldrae, (excluded) and Lochore Colliery Mary Pit (excluded). |
| /05/1991 | Westfield to Kinglassie Line (North British Railway) Lochore and Redford Extension (North British Railway) Kirkness Farm Siding to Westfield Disposal Point [1st] (for the Westfield Opencast) to Redford Junction (excluded) closed. |
