Lathalmond Railway Museum

Location type


Names and dates

RNSD Lathalmond (1941-1971)
Lathalmond Railway Museum (1997-)

Opened on the West of Fife Mineral Railway.

Description

This was a rail served Royal Naval Stores Depot established in the Second World War.

The railway closed in 1971, being cut back to Townhill Power Station. The depot closed in 1993.

It became the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum (in 1995) which includes on its site Shed 47 (from 1997), a short standard gauge line. Tracklaying of a narrow gauge line, the West of Fife Munitions Railway, began on 18 June 2016 and locomotives from the Auchencorth Peat Moss Railway transferred to the site.

The site is now the base of Shed 47 - Lathalmond Railway Museum .

Local

The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum

Tags

Royal Naval Stores Depot preservation heritage

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
03/10/2023




Chronology Dates

  /  /1971West of Fife Railway and Harbour
RNSD Lathalmond closed.
05/07/1971West of Fife Mineral Railway
RNSD Lathalmond to Gask Junction to Lilliehill Junction (excluded) closed.
18/06/2016West of Fife Munitions Railway
Construction of this 2 foot gauge railway begins at the former RNSD Lathalmond formerly served by the West of Fife Mineral Railway.

News items

30/06/2023Dunfermline: Historic re-enactment to return to Lathalmond [Dunfermline Press]
17/10/2022Lathalmond Railway Museum marks King Charles visit to Dunfermline [Dunfermline Press]
31/03/2022Lathalmond Railway Museum unveil new Big Dave steam train [Dunfermline Press]
01/08/2021Lathalmond Railway Museum gets on board with Love Your Railway campaign [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