Inverkeithing Harbour

Location type


Name and dates

Inverkeithing Harbour

Opened on the Halbeath Waggonway.

Description

Southern end of the former Halbeath Waggonway and used for coal export. The harbour was on the west bank of the Inverkeithing Burn, to the south of where Caldwell's Paper Mill developed.

The harbour basin has been infilled.

Tags

Harbour pier
04/05/2019

Chronology Dates

  /  /1780Halbeath Waggonway
Opened from Halbeath collieries to Inverkeithing Harbour by Lloyd Brothers with wooden rails, branches to Townhill and Appin collieries.

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series)
Early Scottish colliery wagonways
Inverkeithing and Dalgety in Old Picture Postcards Volume 2

The Railways of Fife