Charlestown
Location type
StationName and dates
Charlestown (1894-1926)Where: Fife, Scotland
Opened on the Charlestown Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station with a typical North British Railway building.
It was on the shoreline and had a passing loop but no sidings. The platform was on the north side. It was located in the eastern part of the Charlestown shoreline not far west of Limekilns. The line approached from the west. The site was reclaimed land.
The site is now housing on the south of Saltpans road.
There was an earlier station, Charlestown [1st], at the top of the incline to the harbour of the Elgin Railway. Charlestown [1st] closed in 1863.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Charlestown [1st] Braeside Halt Dunfermline [1st] Cairneyhill Dunfermline Nethertown [2nd] Rosyth Dockyard Rosyth Dunfermline City Dunfermline (Comely Park) Dunfermline Upper Torryburn Inverkeithing Inverkeithing [1st] North Queensferry [1st] Philpstoun | Charlestown Salt Works The Glen Quarry Charlestown Limekilns Charlestown Incline Charlestown Viaduct Limestone Quarry Charlestown Brick and Tile Works Braeside Junction Merryhill Quarry Siding Tourist/other Flooded Quarry Charlestown Harbour Limekilns Harbour Broomhall House Charlestown Buffer Merryhill Level Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/11/1926 | Charlestown Railway Charlestown to Dunfermline (Elbowbend Junction) closed to passengers. |
| 24/02/1964 | Charlestown Railway Charlestown to RNAD Crombie siding (excluded) closed to freight. |
