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A call has been made to use Levelling Up funding to save a historic crossing at risk of closure as part of the new Levenmouth rail link.
(Permalink) Double Dykes Level Crossing Land access Leven Railway Levenmouth Line  Double Dykes Level Crossing: 'You shall not pass'. Looking east from Double Dykes level crossing. 19 July. |
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Councillor Colin Davidson, convener of the Local Area Committee, visited the site of the Levenmouth Rail link project to see first-hand Levenmouth Academy pupils participating in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workshops.
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Leven is preparing to be reconnected to Scotland's main railway network for the first time in more than half a century.
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Though Reversing Beeching is a popular aspiration, the question of whether a line should have been closed is quite different from whether it should now be reopened. Providing new rail infrastructure is an expensive business and can only be justified if it offers significant benefits. With some justification, the Levenmouth Rail Campaign (LMRC) has for some time argued that there is a strong case to re-open the six-mile branch line to Leven. This was originally part of the line around the coast of Fife's East Neuk to St Andrews. Following the Beeching Report, this was closed in 1965 although its Leven branch remained open. Nevertheless, British Rail closed the branch to passenger traffic in 1969. It then remained open to freight traffic which ceased about 20 years ago.
(Permalink) Cameron Bridge Leven Leven Railway Levenmouth Line Methil  Cameron Bridge: Increased work volume means more vehicle movements on the project to construct the new Levenmouth rail link. A Moxy crosses a bridge fitted with bog mats and timber.  Levenmouth: The new Levenmouth station site(behind Sainsbury's) seen from the overbridge on 2nd May 2022.
 Cameron Bridge: Looking from the A915 towards Levenmouth, along the cleared track, on 1st December 2020. The buffer stop is the extremity of Cameron Bridge yard, formerly on the double track to Leven. This site is ... |
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Network Rail has been accused of failing to engage with the community over plans for the Levenmouth rail link. [Article may require subscription. -RS]
(Permalink) Cameron Bridge Leven Railway Levenmouth Levenmouth Line Network Rail  Levenmouth: View of the future site of Levenmouth station centred on the Bawbee Bridge. The site of the former Methil Power Station is at the top of the view.  Levenmouth: Plan of proposed Levenmouth terminus (overflow car park omitted).  Cameron Bridge: Plan of the proposed new two platform Cameron Bridge station. The station will have two platforms, linked by a footbridge with lifts, on a double track electrified line with a large car park. This wil ... |
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As work continues to deliver the £116m Levenmouth Rail Link, Peter Grant, Member of Parliament (MP) for Glenrothes and Central Fife visited site to see first-hand progress that has been made on the project.
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Network Rail has worked with staff at the Forth Rivers Trust to put up bat boxes along the route of the Levenmouth Rail link.
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A Channel 4 show has explored the history of Fife's north east rail line.
(Permalink) Anstruther and St Andrews Railway East of Fife Railway Leven Railway Leven and East of Fife Railway St Andrews Railway  Leven [2nd]: The Station Hotel, on Station Road, seen from Station Court, Leven. All that's missing is the station ... The fencing looks to be a survival but the station was demolished after closure on 6 October ...  Largo Viaduct: The harbour at Lower Largo, Fife, looking back towards the village, with the remains of the viaduct that once carried the Fife Coast line dominating the background. Lower Largo was, as every schoolboy ...  St Andrews [2nd]: J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junct ... |
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Levenmouth rail link campaigners have urged people to have their say on locations for two new railway stations.
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