Several mineral railways were constructed around Dunfermline in western Fife, Scotland, in the eighteenth century and later. Their purpose was to convey...
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conveying the mineral to the harbours at Charlestown, Limekilns, Inverkeithing and St David's. From 1848 more modern railways entered Dunfermline, at first...
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Stirling and Dunfermline Railway was a railway in Scotland connecting Stirling and Dunfermline. It was planned by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway to get access...
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renamed Dunfermline Town 26 January 2000; Touch South Junction; divergence of line to Dunfermline Upper and West of Fife Mineral Railway; Dunfermline Queen...
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The Railways of Kinross were a local network of three rural railways which made the town of Kinross in Scotland their objective in the 1850s. They were:...
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Kincardine Line (category Railway lines in Scotland)
railway. The attraction of Dunfermline as a railway objective was the mineral resources, especially coal in the Dunfermline coalfield. Kincardine had...
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establishment of a number of mineral tramways and short railways around Dunfermline. These merged to form the West of Fife Mineral Railway, and that company was...
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The Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway was a railway company founded to form part of a rail and ferry route between Dunfermline and Edinburgh, in Scotland...
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The Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway (WM&CR) was another of the "coal railways" serving mineral sites in Lanarkshire. It opened in 1845, and...
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with a long branch through Dunfermline and Lochgelly to Kirkcaldy; the branch had the potential to wipe out the lucrative mineral traffic that the E&NR hoped...
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Wemyss Private Railway was a network of lines, sometimes known as the Wemyss Estate Railway. The lines were a group of mineral and other railways in Fife, Scotland...
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substantially in the same period. The mineral traffic built up rapidly, and included heavy flows from Dunfermline. The routing for those trains involved...
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road approximately three-quarters of a mile east of the village of Saline and four miles north-west of Dunfermline. The village is home to a community...
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The Wemyss Estate Railway was a group of mineral and other railways in Fife, Scotland, mainly on the land of the Wemyss family. The lines were built to...
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alone there were 272 railways agreed by Act of Parliament, although not all of those were built, since it was the time of the Railway Mania. In addition...
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the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway opened a branch line of their railway from Alloa to Tillicoultry. In 1863 the Devon Valley Railway, having struggled...
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nationalisation of the railways in 1948 it became owned by British Railways, but was divested in 1968 and later became a constituent of Caledonian MacBrayne...
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Bay, was the terminus of the new Dunfermline-North Queensferry Railway which opened in 1877. The Railway Pier was used as one of the northern ferry terminals...
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by the merger of two earlier railways, the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway and the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway. Already established...
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The list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue...
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proposal. Although further railway-line extensions were authorised during the 1890s – and partly as a result of these - a Light Railways Act was passed in 1896...
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Lassodie (category Geography of Fife)
Lassodie is an abandoned settlement located two miles south-west of Kelty, between Dunfermline and Cowdenbeath, in Fife. The name Lassodie was a collective...
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Railway". The Glasgow Herald. 2 August 1873. p. 5. Retrieved 15 September 2016 – via Google News. Railway Gradients of the British Main-Line Railways...
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Townhill, Fife (category Areas of Dunfermline)
just north of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The origin of the community is thought to be from the coal-mining industry. There is a Church of Scotland parish...
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Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways. Ochiltree: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 1-8403-3077-5. Whishaw, Francis (1842). The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland...
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The Slamannan Railway was built to give access for minerals from pits in the Slamannan area to market in Glasgow (over connecting railways) and Edinburgh...
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The Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway was a railway line in central Scotland, built to exploit the mineral extractive industries in the area; it opened in...
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amalgamated G&SWR formed part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the 1923 grouping of the railways. The Caledonian Railway gained running powers over...
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Dumfries and Galloway's Lost Railways. Stenlake. ISBN 978-1-8403-3057-1. OCLC 40801310. Suggitt, Gordon (2008) Lost Railways of Cumbria, pp 107–112, ISBN 978-1-84674-107-4...
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Railways Act 1921 brought about the "grouping" of the main line railways of Great Britain, and from 1923 the Caledonian Railway was a constituent of the...
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