This line is closed. The railway, a branch northwards from the main line at Cowdenbeath to Kinross, was opened by an independent railway company. At Kinross it was met by the Fife and Kinross Railway which ran east to Ladybank. Following the opening of the Forth Bridge it became part of the main line between Edinburgh and Perth via Kinross with the opening of the Glenfarg Line (North British Railway). Although closed and lifted, with portions entirely obliterated, the line could be revived as it offers a more direct route between Edinburgh and Perth (and beyond to Inverness) than the existing route via Ladybank and Newburgh [2nd].
These locations are along the line.
This was originally the junction for the Kinross-shire Railway, opened 1860, with the Dunfermline Branch of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
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This junction opened with a new double track curve to Lumphinnans East Junction in 1902, the existing line remained single track. The curve allowed a goods train from the Kelty direction to run east onto the Dunfermline Branch. The route south to Lumphinnans Central Junction was realigned to make a junction a little further to the north. The box opened in 1901. The [[Dunfermline ...
More detailsLumphinnans No 11 was opened beside the Kinross-shire Railway south of Kelty station (and the later Kelty South Junction by the Cowdenbeath Coal Company.
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The single track Kinross-shire Railway opened here in 1860, a line from Lumphinnans Central Junction to Kinross. The junction was formed in 1890 when Kelty to Cowdenbeath (North British Railway) as part of the preparations for the opening of the Forth Bridge. The original line northwards from the junction was doubled.
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Sinking of the colliery began in 1893 under Thomas Aitken of the Fife Coal Co Ltd, it was in production by 1895/96. The colliery had an adjoining washery. It was east of the village of Kelty.
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This station is closed. It was an island platform station located on what became the main line between Edinburgh Waverley and Perth in 1890 with the opening of the Forth Bridge, a new connection from Cowdenbeath (New) and line through Glenfarg. The station was east of the village of Kelty. It was originally a local station on the line from Cowdenbeath (Old) to [[Kinross ...
More detailsThis yard was to the north of Kelty North Junction.
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This was a six way junction immediately north of Kelty station.
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This signal box was north of Kelty Yard on the line to Blairadam.
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This was a two platform station with the main building, a single storey, on the northbound platform. There were sidings at the south end, on the west side of the line, approached by reversal. The box was at the south end of the northbound platform. The station closed in 1930, signal box closed in 1957 and the line completely closed in 1970.
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More detailsThis was a two platform station. There was a goods yard and locomotive shed to the south (or east) of Kinross High Street, the station was to the north (or west) of this.
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