RAILSCOT | Inverkeithing South Junction

Inverkeithing South Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Inverkeithing South Junction (1890-)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway.
Opened on the Forth Bridge Railway.

Description

This junction is south of Inverkeithing station. Lines to the Forth Bridge and Rosyth Dockyard divide here. The signal box here closed in 1972, control being taken over by Inverkeithing Central Junction signal box.

The box was on the west side of the original 1877 line, located at the north of Inverkeithing [1st] station. On its west side were the goods yard lines and beyond that the main line to the Forth Bridge.

The original line south had been single track. From 1912 it also served Rosyth Dockyard. It was doubled in 1917.

The original line south was singled in 1964.

Just to the east, over the Keithing Burn, is the Boreland Road Bridge over the Halbeath Waggonway (opened ~1783 and largely closed 1867 with this portion converted to a railway for a brick works in 1877). The trackbed is now a footpath.

Tags

Junction

Nearby stations Inverkeithing [1st] Inverkeithing Dalgety Bay Rosyth North Queensferry Rosyth Dockyard Donibristle Platform North Queensferry [1st] Port Edgar South Queensferry [1st] South Queensferry Halt New Halls Dunfermline (Comely Park) Dunfermline City Dalmeny	Boreland Road Bridge Inverkeithing Tunnel Inverkeithing Central Junction Inverkeithing Yard Caldwell^s Paper Mill Inverkeithing East Junction Inverkeithing North Junction Prestonhill Quarry Inverkeithing Brick and Tile Works Limpetness Loop Naval Base Junction Inverkeithing Shipbreaking Yard Tourist/other Inverkeithing Harbour East Ness Admiralty Pier East Ness Pier
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/03/1990	Rosyth Dockyard Branch (North British Railway) Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway Rosyth Dockyard to Inverkeithing South Junction (excluded) closed. (But would re-open.)