Date: 26/05/2021

Plans are on track to build 80 holiday lodges and a cafe near Kelty on land where the railway used to run.

Applicant Derek Timmons is also hoping to add an office, shop, car-parking, access and landscaping to the Great North Road site, which is north of Lochore Meadows Country Park.

The land was occupied formerly by Kelty North junction and sidings.

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Plans for holiday lodges and cafe on track for Kelty

Dunfermline Press

Plans are on track.

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The direct line to Perth runs north to south in this extract of the 1957 OS One Inch map. Kelty station closed in 1930, surprisingly early; perhaps it succumbed to bus competition being rather far from the centre. The station to the north was Blairadam. This was very much coal-mining country and there are plenty of colliery lines. The trackbed of the one between Kelty and Lochore is now substantially underwater as an artificial lake and country park have been created. It is called Lochore Meadows, a name which would have sounded rather sarcastic at the time of the map. Crown copyright 1957.
Location: Kelty
Company: Maps
//1957 David Panton

View from a train window as A3 Pacific no 4472 'Flying Scotsman' heads north towards Perth on the Kinross-shire line with the Queen's College Railway and Transport Society's 'Flying Scotsman Rail Tour' on 16 May 1964. See image [[24811]]. The photograph is thought to have been taken about a mile north of Kelty.
Location: Kelty North Junction
Company: Kinross-shire Railway
16/05/1964 Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

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Tags: x Kelty x Kelty North Junction x Glenfarg Line (North British Railway)