Townhill Power Station

Location type

Works

Name and dates

Townhill Power Station (1963-1976)

Served by the West of Fife Mineral Railway.

Description

This was a rail served power station located to the north of Townhill Loch, north of Dunfermline, opened.

It was south of Lilliehill Junction with two sets of sidings:
- a looped siding on the east side, approached from the north (coal in?)
- a single siding on the north side, approached from the west (ash out?)
both sets on the West of Fife Mineral Railway.
(To the south was the course of the former Townhill Waggonway.)

A further power station added to the west of the original. By this stage the line did not extend north of Lilliehill Junction and power station was reversed into.

The railway to the power station closed in 1976.

Tags

Power Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
01/09/2020


Chronology Dates

  /  /1976West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Townhill Power Station to Lilliehill Junction to Townhill Junction closed.

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