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Thornton Yard
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Looking west over Thornton Marshalling Yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1888.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![East end of Thornton Yard.<br><br>[Jeffray Wotherspoon //]](/images/2000/2559.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![East end of Thornton Yard showing new conveyor and new shed.<br><br>[Jeffray Wotherspoon //]](/images/2000/2560.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Lever frame and panel at Thornton Yard sb in July 1971.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /07/1971]](/images/32000/32227.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Passing stabled locos at Thornton Depot including 20202, 25066 and a couple of sisters. Seen from the Branch Line Society's Lothian & Fife Wanderer on 23 August 1980 which was returning from a visit to Westfield.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/08/1980]](/images/57000/57755.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Locomotives stabled at Thornton Yard on 7 April 1983 include 27210, 20199 & 20204.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/04/1983]](/images/25000/25209.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![20227 and 08570 stand in Thornton Yard on 7 April 1983<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/08/1983]](/images/25000/25190.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![LMS design Inspection Saloon M45045 stored at Thornton Yard, Fife in 1987. The coach has since been preserved on the Mid Hants Railway.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/46000/46244.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Thornton Yard Hump Control with a spur avoiding the humps in the foreground. The yard is to the left.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/57000/57846.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![25028 and 25318, along with a class 27, await the end at Thornton Yard in 1987. Vic Berry of Leicester had set up a loco scrapping operation at the yard but local fears about asbestos contamination curtailed the activity.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/58000/58132.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Ex-LMS coach converted to a 'dome car' for observation of pantograph/OHL. Stored in the sidings at Thornton yard in the summer of 1987. [Ref query 7904]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/07/1987]](/images/52000/52569.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![DMUs waiting their fate make this 1989 view of the east end of Thornton Yard look deceptively busy.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/52000/52122.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![A pair of 20s on coal ex-Westfield, passing Thornton Yard outer home, seen from Strathore Road bridge.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1990]](/images/53000/53127.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![The west end of Thornton Yard with the former hump control tower on the left.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1990]](/images/57000/57661.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![08761 arrives at Thornton Yard with the trip freight from Auchmuty/Tullis Russell in April 1991.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /04/1991]](/images/53000/53154.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![A pair of class 20 locomotives stabled at Thornton Yard in July 1991.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /07/1991]](/images/31000/31877.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Thornton Yard signal box, photographed in July 1991.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /07/1991]](/images/34000/34127.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![37 692 draws away from Thornton Yard with empties for Westfield Opencast Mine in October 1991.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /10/1991]](/images/36000/36568.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![A Class 08 diesel shunter is framed by two Tullis Russell hopper wagons at Thornton Yard on 18 March 1992. All will head for the Auchmuty branch in due course.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/03/1992]](/images/36000/36083.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![56076 passes Thornton Depot with a coal train from Westfield Opencast site in 1993.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1993]](/images/58000/58238.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Surreal railway scene at Thornton - wagons of starch for road delivery to the nearby Tullis Russell paper mill in 1998, six years after closure of the company's private siding at the terminus of the Markinch-Auchmuty branch.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1998]](/images/34000/34170.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![EWS 66155 climbs away from Thornton Yard in 2005 with empties for Westfield Open Cast Mine with the locoshed roof in the background. Stocks were being cleared from the site. [Ref query 6 December 2017]<br><br>[Bill Roberton //2005]](/images/62000/62046.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![The control tower at Thornton Yard continues to moulder away. Money down the drain.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/06/2007]](/images/15000/15250.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![EWS building for John Camerons steam locomotives, looking SE.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 03/06/2007]](/images/15000/15259.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![66098 with a rake of coal hoppers ready to leave for Cockenzie.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 03/06/2007]](/images/15000/15264.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![The old Control and signalling centre at Thornton Yard. Opened in 1956 incorporating the latest technology to accommodate the supposed trainloads of coal from the new Rothes deep mine. Unfortunately this was at the last moment declared unsafe by geological boffins, a debacle indeed.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 08/11/2008]](/images/21000/21391.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Three of the six rakes of HAA coal hoppers which have been rehoused at Thornton Yard having been at Perth New Yard for several years.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 08/11/2008]](/images/21000/21396.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Spraying equipment used to settle dust on loaded coal hoppers at Thornton Yard, seen from the level crossing on 8 November.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 08/11/2008]](/images/21000/21402.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Row upon row of stored coal hoppers occupy the sidings at Thornton Yard on 31 January 2009, with some doubtless having been relocated here following the recent demise of Perth New Yard. There appears to be little activity in the yard at present, with all Longannet traffic now being routed via Stirling and Alloa. In the background a 158 passes with a Fife Circle train. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 31/01/2009]](/images/22000/22322.jpg "Thornton Yard")
![Ex-LMS 6201 <I>Princess Elizabeth</I> arriving at<br>
Thornton Depot after working a special to Edinburgh on 1 April 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/04/2010]](/images/28000/28369.jpg "Thornton Yard")
