Leuchars (Old)

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Leuchars [1st] (1848-1852)
Leuchars Junction [1st] (1852-1876)
Leuchars (Old) (1876-1921)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Opened on the Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
Opened on the St Andrews Railway.

Description

This was a four platform station. A bay existed on either side for the [St Andrews Railway] branch. To the south of the station was a small yard on the west side of the line. The main station building was on the southbound platform.

There was a level crossing at the north end of the station. On the south side of this was a footbridge between the platforms. The signal box was by the level crossing.

The line north to Tayport was singled in 1929. The station had closed in 1921, becoming a goods depot. The line north closed altogether in 1956, but the railway remained at the old station, cut back to the south side of the level crossing. The signal box closed in 1959 and four track railway reduced to a single line.

The line closed altogether in 1967.

The station site has been absorbed by road improvements and the western portion is now a car park.

Tags

Station
10/11/2022


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Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series)

A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series)

Burntisland: Fife's Railway Port (Locomotion papers)

Fife's Last Days of Steam

Fife's Lost Railways

Railways of Fife

Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong

The Anstruther and St. Andrews Railway

The Railways of Fife

The St Andrews Railway (Oakwood Library of Railway History)