Lumphinnans North Junction
Location type
Junction
Name and dates
Lumphinnans North Junction (1902-1967)
Opened on the Kinross-shire Railway.
Opened on the Lumphinnans North Junction to Lumphinnans East Junction (North British Railway).
Description
This junction opened with a new double track curve to Lumphinnans East Junction in 1902, the existing line remained single track. The curve allowed a goods train from the Kelty direction to run east onto the Dunfermline Branch. The route south to Lumphinnans Central Junction was realigned to make a junction a little further to the north. The box opened in 1901. The Dunfermline branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway) dated from 1848, the Kinross-shire Railway from 1860.
The line continued north west as a single track to Kelty South Junction.
In 1935 the box here, in the 'V' of the junction, took over Lumphinnans East Junction box.
Both Kelty lines here closed in 1967. The location is now landscaped farmland.
Tags
JunctionNearby stations Lochgelly Cowdenbeath Kelty Cowdenbeath (Old) Cardenden Crossgates (Fife) Blairadam Halbeath Dunfermline Queen Margaret Aberdour Loch Leven Curler^s Platform Kinross [2nd] Donibristle Platform Loch Leven Burntisland | Other railway and industry locations Lumphinnans East Junction ^Mary^ Colliery Lumphinnans Central Junction Lumphinnans West Junction Lumphinnans No 1 Colliery Lumphinnans Pit No 7 Lumphinnans Tunnel Lumphinnans Iron Works Lochgelly Gas Works Lumphinnans Nos 11 and 12 Collieries Lochgelly Colliery Nellie Pit Newton Pit Cowdenbeath North Junction Lochgelly Iron Works Lochgelly Brickworks |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
